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Stocking Done in Time, But First…

by Suzann Thompson | Dec 28, 2007 | Knitting, Life, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion

Woolwinder asked about our other Christmas stockings, so here they are! Charles’ mother, Gene, knitted his when he was a child. Gene is short for Eugenia, a beautiful name, though she said she didn’t like it much. It’s Ella’s middle name. I...

Christmas Knitting Emergency!

by Suzann Thompson | Dec 17, 2007 | Knitting, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion

Ella and I discussed Christmas stockings the other day. “We have Christmas stockings somewhere,” I said. “Can you find them, Mama?” Since we moved back to Texas, Santa has been leaving small gifts and chocolate and fruit in a set of pretty,...

Football, Knitting, and Angels

by Suzann Thompson | Nov 25, 2007 | Knitting, Life, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion

Friday was a sad, sad day for Texas Longhorn fans. It was embarrassing, really. We’ve always told Eva, who goes to school with a number of kids whose parents are Aggies (which means they’re Aggies, too. It runs in families.), that when UT and A&M get...

A Pink Project and an Angel Count

by Suzann Thompson | Nov 4, 2007 | Knitting, Life, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion

Last spring, when I was consumed by crocheted flowers, four-year-old Ella looked at me soulfully and said, “Mama, when you’re done with your book, would you knit me a pink and purple sweater?” How could I resist such sweetness, not to mention the big...

Great Knitters at Stitches East ’07

by Suzann Thompson | Oct 11, 2007 | Knitting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion, Workshops

Look at these great seamless argyle socks! They are the work of the diligent, intrepid advanced knitters in my Seamless Argyle Socks workshop at Stitches East. The class takes a lot of concentration. They stuck with it and made progress. I’m proud of them! It...

Taos Workshops Are Underway

by Suzann Thompson | Oct 4, 2007 | Knitting, Polymer Clay, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion, Workshops

We arrived in Taos, New Mexico, Tuesday evening, after three days of leisurely driving through Texas and Northern New Mexico. We crossed plains, grasslands with lonely mountains, and finally mountains. It is a beautiful drive. I taught Slip Stitch Color Knitting...
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Wow! This lovely collar* comes with a Certificate Wow! This lovely collar* comes with a Certificate of Authenticity by some supposed authority in the UK, certifying that it is real, authentic Irish crochet. 

Do you see the problem with this?

It goes to show that some claims on Certificates of Authenticity are not true. And that not all people calling themselves experts are what they claim to be.

It certainly is beautiful lace, just not Irish Crochet or any other kind of crochet.

* It really is a collar, but I wanted you to be able to see the details of its construction. Should have taken a picture of the whole thing. Maybe next time.
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#CrochetDetective #NotCrochet #KnowYourLaces
An avalanche is like a landslide, only it is made An avalanche is like a landslide, only it is made of snowflakes instead of mud. That is what this quilt, Snowflakes Create Avalanches, is about.

Fellow Snowflakes, let's vote and cause an avalanche for Democracy.

More about this quilt at https://textilefusion.com/blog/

#TextileFusion #Vote #Snowflakes
Close! Mostly I used this No. 10 crochet cotton by Close! Mostly I used this No. 10 crochet cotton by the American Thread Company. Definitely vintage. ❤️
Crocheting these vintage bedspread/tablecloth/doil Crocheting these vintage bedspread/tablecloth/doily motifs has been educational. I think they’re beautiful, but I’m -not- tempted to make a bedspread or tablecloth out of any one of them. 

The square at top right, designed in the 1940s or so by Cecilia Vanek, is from the Puritan Bedspread aka County Clare Bedspread. Free pattern here: https://freevintagecrochet.com/bedspread-patterns/star208/puritan-bedspread-pattern

The other three are in 150 Favorite Crochet Designs, Ed. Mary Carolyn Waldrep (Dover), and online sources.

#CrochetSquares #BedspreadSquares #VintageCrochet #Motif #Crochet
A year ago I was breathing a bunch of sighs of rel A year ago I was breathing a bunch of sighs of relief, because I had finished an intense crochet design project. I designed, crocheted, wrote patterns, and took step-by-step pictures of a bunch of flowery bookmarks. Most of the ones in the picture made it into a kit published by Quarto.

More about this at my blog:
https://textilefusion.com/last-year-at-this-time-flowery-crocheted-bookmarks/ or go to link in bio.
The Town ‘n Country Quilt Guild of Stephenville, T The Town ‘n Country Quilt Guild of Stephenville, TX, close at 4 PM today. There’s time, if you live close by, to visit all the quilts and the Country Store, where you can find lots of previously loved items for sale. There was a pretty good stack of doilies yesterday, priced to move. Somebody bought a couple or three, and I don’t know what happened after that. Maybe there are some left.
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