by Suzann Thompson | Mar 20, 2010 | Crochet, Crochet Bouquet, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
About a month ago, Amanda Carestio of Lark Books wrote to me with exciting news. Crochet Bouquet is now available as a digital book! “We know that the knitting and crochet community has a large presence online,” Amanda said, later adding,...
by Suzann Thompson | Feb 16, 2010 | Crochet, Crochet Bouquet, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Please join us in making a Fern leaf for February’s Crochet-Along! Readers have adopted the Fern leaf (on pages 110-111) as one of their favorite patterns in Crochet Bouquet. (The other favorite is the Plain Pansy.) The Fern is one of my favorites, too. Once you...
by Suzann Thompson | Jan 13, 2010 | Crochet, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Our Irish Crochet Lovers group over at Ravelry is doing an Irish Crochet Doily Crochet-Along through March. We’re mostly working on different doilies, since we have some beginners and some experts and some in-between. I chose a plate doily from a 1911 book...
by Suzann Thompson | Dec 21, 2009 | Crochet, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion, Workshops
My Irish Crochet sample is growing, slowly but surely. I had to redo some sections of the background several times before I was pleased with it. See the pink line in the photo? It shows, more-or-less, the direction of the very simple background mesh I am crocheting...
by Suzann Thompson | Nov 9, 2009 | Crochet, Crochet Bouquet, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
For Rounds 4 and 5 of the Poppy in Crochet Bouquet (pp. 65-66), switch to your petal color yarn. I’m using Opus 1 (with aloe and jojoba) by Zitron, and distributed in the US by Skacel. In Round 4, your challenge is to correctly identify the second sl st of each...
by Suzann Thompson | Nov 4, 2009 | Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
We usually pass through Mora, New Mexico, very early in the morning on our way home from the Taos Wool Festival. For the first time this year, I drove through Mora at exactly the right time to visit the tantalizing Tapetes de Lana (Carpets of Wool) gallery. The walls...
