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Ella’s Shoes, Dreaded Leaves, Flower Crochet Alongs

by Suzann Thompson | Jul 13, 2008 | Crochet, Crochet Bouquet, Life, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion

Ella recently decided to make shoes. She tried paper first, but found that paper shoes don’t hold up well. Then she tried making shoes from felt. After tape, staples are Ella’s favorite means of holding stuff together. She molded the felt around her feet...

Estes Park Wool Market 2008-2

by Suzann Thompson | Jun 21, 2008 | Crochet, Crochet Bouquet, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion

Marilyn was in my Slip Stitch Color Knitting class at Taos a couple of years ago. She knitted her class samples with the most beautiful variegated yarn. She dyed it herself! She was in my button class at Estes Park, too. She travels around with an RV and her doggies,...

Estes Park Wool Market 2008-1

by Suzann Thompson | Jun 17, 2008 | Crochet, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion

We loved the Estes Park Wool Market! The weather was cool and nice. We had mountains all around. The smell of food made our mouths water. And then there was the yarn! Our first view of the Wool Market was these white tents, which turned out to be the animal tents. The...

How Color Happens for Me

by Suzann Thompson | Jun 7, 2008 | Crochet, Crochet Bouquet, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion

Even as a kid, I noticed and admired color. I must have been seven or eight years old, when I decided to study it. Ever since, that’s what I did. Color inspiration happens all the time, if you just watch for it. I was weaving yarn ends in a few days ago, piling...

Patchwork and Daffodil

by Suzann Thompson | Jun 6, 2008 | Crochet, Crochet Bouquet, Life, Polymer Clay, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion

“Mom, can I use some of your flowers?” has become a frequent refrain around our house. The last time I heard it was a few days ago, when Eva decided to make a handbag for herself. She decided on the size of the bag and she did all the patchwork on her own....

Mothers Day 2008

by Suzann Thompson | May 12, 2008 | Crochet, Crochet Bouquet, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion

My sweet daughters picked me a bouquet of Texas wildflowers for Mother’s Day. My usual reaction to our wildflowers is “Pink Evening Primroses are my favorite! …except for Gaillardia…and Wine Cups are my favorite, too…and I really like...
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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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In the summer of 2025, @let_me_ellaborate and @wre In the summer of 2025, @let_me_ellaborate and @wren.nests created a mosaic of willow-pattern china shards for the top shelf of a little bookcase. Their work helped me muster the energy to repaint the bookcase, and later to grout the mosaic.
I put the bookcase back in my bedroom and loaded the books back on the lower shelves. The poor tissue box sits on the floor now, because I am not going to put anything on top of that mosaic, if I can help it! Thank you, Ella and Wren!❤️❤️ 
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Time to starch some of these vintage-style crochet Time to starch some of these vintage-style crochet motifs! This time I pinned them dry and used spray starch. 

I crocheted them from 150 Favorite Crochet Designs, ed. Mary Carolyn Waldrep, Dover Publications.
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We stopped by The Trading Post antique mall in Lam We stopped by The Trading Post antique mall in Lampasas, TX, the other day, and found crochet galore! Doilies were everywhere! And, among other crocheted things, there were cute crocheted potholders probably from the 1940s and 50s.❤️ 

Read a little more about it at https://textilefusion.com/doily-heaven-in-lampasas/ or click the link in bio.
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My fellow US Citizens and Texans, if you aren’t ye My fellow US Citizens and Texans, if you aren’t yet registered to vote, now is the time! 

We have midterm elections coming up in November, and time is passing faster than it seems. The deadline to register in Texas is October 5th.

Visit https://textilefusion.com/its-time-to-register/ or click on link in bio for more important dates, live links, and the story of this quilt.❤️🤍💙
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Comanche Mercantile on the square in Comanche, TX, Comanche Mercantile on the square in Comanche, TX, has a charming and interesting variety of textiles in the way-back room. That’s where I saw this lavender pillowcase, appliquéd with the crocheted letters H E R, and trimmed with crochet. It sent me on a deep dive to learn more about His & Hers pillowcases.

I’ve been trying for a long time to get back to blogging. Hand-embellished pillowcases were a reasonably quick and fun subject to write about.

I hope you will read about them here:
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