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Secret Project Revealed, At Last

by Suzann Thompson | Oct 25, 2007 | Crochet, Crochet Bouquet, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion

A few times over the last year, I mentioned a big, secret project I was working on. I couldn’t say what it was at the time. However, since you can already order it from amazon.com, I can now reveal the details. Yep, I wrote a book! It is called Crochet Bouquet....

Gail’s Buttons

by Suzann Thompson | Oct 21, 2007 | Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion

Walking the Stitches East market last week was like being in a beautiful dream of yarns and books and tools. Several farms and cottage industries had booths, with yarn spun from their flocks, and often hand-dyed. I saw loopy bouclé mohair galore, which can only mean...

Good Morning Taos, Good Night Baltimore

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

What a great way to start the morning! I was on the way to breakfast in Taos last week, when I saw this gorgeous sight. I think a lot of Taos mornings are like this. My workshops, Beginning Crochet and Two-Handed Stranded Knitting went well, and the Wool Festival was...

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...

Craft: Magazine is Good

by Suzann Thompson | Sep 27, 2007 | Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion

My first subscription issue of Craft: arrived, and I was impressed! Its subtitle is “transforming traditional crafts,” which it does right there on the cover, with the completely silly and fun knitted Crime Scene Scarf. Wide-ranging projects include...
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Most of us who grew up in the US have pledged our Most of us who grew up in the US have pledged our allegiance to the flag of the United States of America hundreds of times. We pledge our allegiance to the flag of a nation with liberty and justice for all.

That means liberty and justice are not exclusively for the people we like best, but for everybody else in the United States as well.

So let’s honor our pledge by voting for candidates who will protect liberty and justice for all, because we have pledged our allegiance to that concept over and over again.

All means all.
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…And Justice for All quilt was completed in 2023, by me.

#PledgeOfAllegiance #LibertyAndJusticeForAll #Vote2026 #AllMeansAll #FiletCrochet
The early morning sunshine lit up Charles‘s garden The early morning sunshine lit up Charles‘s garden. 💛🧡
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#FallGarden #SquashBlossoms #Marigolds #CowpenDaisy
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
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