Have you made something and want to show it off? This is the place for your photos or just talk about the things that you have made or would like to make. All crafts from knitting and crochet to woodwork, in fact anything that you have made!
Well, I didn't make it - but my Mom did, and when she was nine years old!
I was telling her about the cotton dishcloths and she commented that she used to make facecloths from dishcloth cotton when she was a child. She sold them to the "big houses" for 2 shillings each when the cotton had cost her a few pennies. She sometimes dyed them with natural colours using vinegar or salt as fixatives but she couldn't remember which dyes went with which. She thought it took about two days to make one and she did them when she was on the train on her way to school. I somehow can't imagine many nine year olds being quite so enterprising to earn their pocket money or being able to do the crochet work.
She rooted around in her sewing box and found she still had three of them and she mailed one to me. She thinks they date from around 1939, certainly pre-war. I must admit it works great too - a bit like a gentle face scrub.
Graye wrote:I somehow can't imagine many nine year olds being quite so enterprising to earn their pocket money or being able to do the crochet work.
Don't kids learn that at school anymore? We had crochet in primary 3 - so I was 8 then (start school at 6 in Germany). We made mainly potholders, and I still use the same pattern for them. Mind you, the ones I made back then were as stiff as a board... But useful as coasters in the kitchen!
Ina
I'm a size 10, really; I wear a 20 for comfort. (Gina Yashere)
I learned to make a pajama cosy, a fabric game and a pencil case in school.
They don' teach you to make anything useful! Its like in cooking, we learnt to make gluten and sugar and whatever free food, but never how to make a main meal, or something useful, like how to make pasta and boil an egg.
Hi - I still crochet - my Gran taught me when I was 4. Not very trendy these days and I cant imagine my teenage daughters wanting to learn. Just wait until it comes back into fashion.....
Two roads diverged in a wood
And I took the one less travelled by
And that has made all the difference.
(Robert Frost)
invisiblepiper wrote:Hi - I still crochet - my Gran taught me when I was 4. Not very trendy these days and I cant imagine my teenage daughters wanting to learn. Just wait until it comes back into fashion.....
Did you have one of those multi coloured crochet waistcoats in the 70s?
Ina
I'm a size 10, really; I wear a 20 for comfort. (Gina Yashere)
invisiblepiper wrote:and a red , white and blue poncho
Oh yes - I had one of them, too! Mine was red, white, black and yellow, if I remember correctly... Terrible material, though - back then I was still using acrylic...
Ina
I'm a size 10, really; I wear a 20 for comfort. (Gina Yashere)
Yep! definitely acrylic! Used to get a shock when you grabbed the metal pole getting on the bus! And don't even go near crimpelene trousers................... Now I sound like my Mother. Must be getting old or something. Trouble is , I couldn't contribute to a blog about computer games or i pods! ( Would I want to?)
Two roads diverged in a wood
And I took the one less travelled by
And that has made all the difference.
(Robert Frost)
I learned to crochet from a friend when I was about 19, and have been doing it ever since. She did it left-handed, so I just sat opposite her and copied what she did!
If anyone knows any decent websites with crochet patterns, please let me know. (I can't knit, just crochet.) Good ones are very difficult to find, and I usually end up inventing my own.
Somebody obviously had too much time on their hands...
I rarely use patterns - only if I want to look up a particular stitch that I can't quite remember how to do, or when I need sizes for other folks, where I don't have the body handy to try on...
Ina
I'm a size 10, really; I wear a 20 for comfort. (Gina Yashere)
Wow - fascinating site! some of the links are defunct - but there are some good free patterns to be had - and now I've spent even more time online! OOps
Thanks for the link green Aura!
Two roads diverged in a wood
And I took the one less travelled by
And that has made all the difference.
(Robert Frost)
