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Post by annclaire on Jan 4, 2012 6:39:12 GMT -5
Crocheting is one of my fav things ....... As some of you know I crochet plastic yes I do It is called Plarn .. Plastic yarn hence "Plarn" he he ... Ya gotta do something with all those plastic bags from the grocery store! LOL I have a ball made up, and part of a market bag done waiting for me to cut more bags and make more yarn so I can finish it sometime
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Post by annclaire on Jan 4, 2012 6:41:35 GMT -5
1st thank you red for the invite to your forums My Mom use to love to knit, sew, and Crochet Before she had the many stroke that left her paralyzed on her right side this was the last Thing that she made for me she made it back it in 1992 it a Fox hunt afghan Charles That is awesome! You are so lucky to have something so beautiful, warm, useful, gorgeous from your dear mother!
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Post by garrett on Jan 5, 2012 1:14:33 GMT -5
beautiful special memory keepsake.
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Post by nightmist on Jan 5, 2012 13:54:13 GMT -5
I am a total textile geek, however my husband refers to me as The Goddess of Artfully Tangling Yarn and Thread. I knit, crochet, tat, do assorted lace making, macrame, small scale weaving, and just about anything else I find to do with yarns and fibers. I am still on a 10 pound lifting limitation, and still not allowed to go up and down stairs (which separates me from my studio ), so I have gone totally Madame Defarge these past few months. Though I have done some hand sewing, I have mostly been knitting with episodes of lace making in between knitting projects. So far I have done four sweaters, half an afghan, and yards of knit lace. I am planning a bosnian crochet project just for a change from knitting. Though I have written up patterns in cabling, and intarsia that I want to try in something. I may not get to any of it just yet as I feel a "spinning fit" coming on. The spindle is calling my name and I have some roving prepped that is looking lonely.
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Post by garrett on Jan 10, 2012 14:43:33 GMT -5
rotfl at goddess....smiles madam defarge?
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Post by nightmist on Jan 11, 2012 7:29:58 GMT -5
Back to school with you! Madame DeFarge is a character from "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens. It seems the main thing everyone remembers about her is that every time she shows up in the book she is knitting.
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Post by w8n4dave on Jan 11, 2012 10:49:33 GMT -5
Ok so I think it was either PharmerPhils or it was Idig , one of the guys posted about their wife doing a neat crochet stitch ......Tunisian stitch (anyone hear of it before?) .... Another thing I want to get today is some more yarn There is a really nice place that is a bit out of the way , but they have great yarn!! The yarn is a lil more pricy but It is a very nice place So after baking my bread , and making my pizza, Then I will crochet me a scarf hehehehe
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Post by countrykitty on Jan 12, 2012 9:43:04 GMT -5
what's it good for besides sweaters?smiles Sweaters, scarves, socks, hats, mittens, bags (net for shopping, purses, small soft bag for the new digital camera), doilies, afghans, lace snowflakes and bells for Christmas, catbeds... ...even made a toy net for the corner of gran'boys room to hold all his stuffed sea creatures--I had some tan yarn with gray and dark brown flecks in it, so I even made some cylindrical 'cork' floats for the fishing net! Like nightmist, I do many different things with yarn. Knit, crochet, tunisian, macrame, tat---a term I saw for people who both knit and crochet is 'bi-stitch-ual'...I'm multistitchual--a really kinky kitty, me!!
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Post by countrykitty on Jan 12, 2012 9:59:07 GMT -5
Ok so I think it was either PharmerPhils or it was Idig , one of the guys posted about their wife doing a neat crochet stitch ......Tunisian stitch (anyone hear of it before?) .... Tunisian is another name for 'afghan stitch'--it uses a long crochet hook, as long as a knitting needle. You pull up loops in the edge of the piece you're making just as in knitting, but instead of turning the work like with knitting, you just crochet the loops off the hook, with the 'right' side of the work facing you at all times.
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Post by w8n4dave on Jan 12, 2012 18:23:39 GMT -5
Yes countrykitty I am learning It seems to be a lil faster than .. plain ol crocheting Sorry I haven't been in this thread in a while If anyone wants to know more about Crocheting Plastic bags AKA Plarn.... Just let me know If I can hepl I will ..... I am a self taught crocheter so I am not perfect but I really enjoy it LAst year I broke my wrist and I could not crochet... might be why I didn't come back in this thread. So sorry I missed some people wanting me to explain some stuff to them... I am making a bag out of plarn now so I will post pics
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Post by w8n4dave on Jan 13, 2012 8:27:43 GMT -5
Yup ok it was Texdirtdog He posted in another thread But just for the record.........I love this stitch, or way of crocheting I want to do it with my plarn, beings it is all bad weather today maby I will try it Havn't found my very long hook but I have a shorter one I can use. Also thanks for mentioning a camera bag.. I need a nice soft camera bag to slip my camera into I am going to make one
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Post by annclaire on Jan 13, 2012 22:56:31 GMT -5
LOL - I had to make DD a kindle cover for hers ... she needed something to provide protection and cushion so here's what I made:
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Post by garrett on Jan 15, 2012 4:41:17 GMT -5
niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice ac.
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Post by w8n4dave on Jan 15, 2012 10:09:22 GMT -5
LOL - I had to make DD a kindle cover for hers ... she needed something to provide protection and cushion so here's what I made: OMG how adorable!!
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Post by marielouise on Jan 15, 2012 14:15:23 GMT -5
Wow thats so nifty!
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Post by garrett on Jan 23, 2012 3:08:53 GMT -5
smiles
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Post by annclaire on Jan 26, 2012 3:51:21 GMT -5
Awww, thanks folks ... I just have to make something for the DD when she needs it! Of course, when I finished this doily that is 45" across (a tablecloth really LOL) and she said she wanted it, well, I had to give it to her But I did tell her I wanted to enter it in the county and state fair next summer!
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Post by circumspice on Dec 13, 2012 5:51:29 GMT -5
OMG ac!!! That is so intricate & beautiful!!!
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Post by circumspice on Dec 13, 2012 6:22:22 GMT -5
My Mom was vowed & determined that all 3 of her daughters would learn all the "womanly arts"... ;D So she taught us how to sew, by hand & machine, how to knit & crochet, how to embroider... whether we wanted to learn or not! ;D She had to ask an English friend of hers to teach her how to knit so she could teach us... We learned to knit in the 'continental' manner. All the American knitters I know tell me that I knit backwards... I have also taught myself how to do needlepoint, how to tablet weave & how to tat. My Dad taught us that we can do anything if we can "read & follow instructions". So I learn a lot of things by reading 'how to' manuals. I taught myself how to tablet weave with a 'back strap' attached to a door knob. A coworker saw me doing it at work & was so fascinated by the band that I was weaving that he built me a small red oak tablet loom that was pictured in the book I was using to learn how to weave with. I treasure that loom. A while back, I found a little doo-hickey that looks like a wooden crochet hook with a hole or eye on the opposite end of the hook. You are supposed to be able to knit with it by threading a contrasting color cord through the eye. As soon as I find where I stashed it, I'm gonna teach myself how to knit with a crochet hook. ;D Have any of you ever done finger knitting? I learned how to do it in Girl Scouts. (my Mom was our troop leader) I had forgotten about it completely, then I saw a 10 year old girl who was finger knitting on a plane. Brought back a LOT of memories.
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Post by marielouise on Dec 28, 2012 23:17:00 GMT -5
finger knitting or finger crochet? ? I learned finger crochet when I was a child, is it the same or is there another technique for finger knitting. And I too have forgotten how ---lol--- also did spool knitting using a wooden thread spool with nails around the top and knitting a long tube type thingy with cotton yarn and coiling into a hot pad , taught both by my Gramma .. Now in the craft stores there's plastic do goodies for knitting round tubes of different sizes. Everything old comes around and becomes new again!!!! And yes was taught all the sewing skills that ladies were supposed to be taught..... This and I was still the biggest tomboy in 3 states !!!! Oh well what ya expect when ya have 3 brothers and no sisters.... I could out run , out climb ,out shoot all of em!!!! But never said a swear word til I was grown!!! go figure !
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Post by circumspice on Jan 1, 2013 15:10:10 GMT -5
finger knitting or finger crochet? ? I learned finger crochet when I was a child, is it the same or is there another technique for finger knitting. And I too have forgotten how ---lol--- also did spool knitting using a wooden thread spool with nails around the top and knitting a long tube type thingy with cotton yarn and coiling into a hot pad , taught both by my Gramma .. Now in the craft stores there's plastic do goodies for knitting round tubes of different sizes. Everything old comes around and becomes new again!!!! And yes was taught all the sewing skills that ladies were supposed to be taught..... This and I was still the biggest tomboy in 3 states !!!! Oh well what ya expect when ya have 3 brothers and no sisters.... I could out run , out climb ,out shoot all of em!!!! But never said a swear word til I was grown!!! go figure ! I had 2 older sisters & a little brother. I ended up becoming a diesel mechanic for most of my adult life. That really threw my mom for a loop. She just didn't 'get it' as to why I wanted to be a mechanic. But she didn't mind me working on her cars & garden equipment! ;D
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Post by circumspice on Jan 1, 2013 15:47:38 GMT -5
"finger knitting or finger crochet??" Hey ML, I've always heard it called finger knitting or finger weaving. When we did it, we used that REALLY CHUNKY yarn that girls used to tie their hair with in the 50s & 60s. Do you remember that yarn? ;D Anyway, it made the knitted item more substantial than the regular weight yarn. We made some pretty cool scarves & stuff with it. And yup, we did the spool knitting thing too! Back then we still had wooden thread spools. My mom managed to find some big honkin' wooden thread spools for us to use. She got my dad to get some pretty brass round headed nails to make the spool looms with. He sanded out all the rough spots, even inside the hole of the spool. We had some fun back then, didn't we? Dem was da good ole days! ;D
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Post by circumspice on Jan 1, 2013 16:05:40 GMT -5
A weird thing that one of my sisters & I did was to knit with toothpicks! We'd use real fine cotton crochet thread. We used to make doll clothes that way. We had an aunt who was a high school Home-Ec teacher & she was flabbergasted by that! Another crafty thing that sis & I used to do was make tiny purses out of cardboard soap boxes. (bar type bath soap) I think we used Dial soap boxes because they were the sturdiest. We'd glue heavy weight wrapping paper on the outside & felt on the inside. We'd use a small button & a loop of elastic for a clasp to close it. Then we'd make a strap out of the big chunky yarn or maybe some really light weight chain. I haven't thought about this stuff for decades... Memories...
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Post by marielouise on Jan 6, 2013 1:12:53 GMT -5
aaahhhh yes ----- never thought of making purse out of soap boxes!!! How Creative,,,,, that was !!!! wow and knitting with tooth picks!!!.
But then with 3 brothers and no sisters I was more into rough and tumble stuff. I do remember using wooden matches boxes ---those great ole big kitchen matches --- used their empty box , glued some together on top of each other, removed the insides that slid out and made a back with a piece of cereal box cut to size , then covered the outside with pretty paper and for a pull would attach a shank button with thread--voila a little storage box with drawers --or a chest of drawers for doll house. For me it became a keepsake box for my treasures I found while roaming the mountains with my brothers.... All kinds of tiny little pretty stuff.
ya know these kids today are really missing out with all their hi teck toys ! haaaaa What are they learning besides punching buttons .....
Ohhh yeah and a friend of my Dads -- Mr Brown, he was well into his 90s at the time . He taught me to weave grasses and vine roots together like Indians had way back in the day. Once we found a old kettle with big hole in the bottom --- then we ran across a berry patch---so while one brother went back for the kettle the other brother and I wove a matt type of contraption to fit across the hole and up the sides so we could pick berries and haul back home ---- we didn't want to walk home for buckets then back to pick. Hey it worked ---we filled that dang kettle up --- it required 2 of us to carry at a time ---so we looped it over a long pole , tied it off bout center then up on our shoulders and home we went. took turns carrying, 2 at a time with the free person having to help hold going up that one steep hill. That dang kettle was full and talk about heavy--- tried to get oldest brother to dump out part of the berries but NOOOOOOO he had to bring them all home.
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Post by marielouise on Jan 6, 2013 1:31:25 GMT -5
Ohhh gosh I had forgotten --- once back to the house ---there were 8 steps up onto the porch -- Gram was asleep---
We were so tired and steps were to steep for us to carry the kettle between 2 of us so I went in and got a couple big pans--- came back and filled those up and took in -- made another trip with Grams extra dish pan--- then older brother could carry it to the porch then into kitchen. Gram was still asleep so we started washing the berries --- and younger brother sitting on the counter filling the little sacks for the freezer. Back then no ziplocks , had to twist the tops and then put a twisty on. Gram called out who's in the kitchen--- we are ---- what ya running water for washing berries
by then she was inside the kitchen and on Lordy where did you all find so many . So then she starts helping wash and bag. Then Grampa came back from town. Now the kettle was still sitting on the floor with berrys in it---we had been dipping them out a pan full at a time. Grampa picked the kettle up and dumped the whole thing in the sink before we could telll him no. We had not only the woven piece but also green leaves so no berrys would fall out between the strands but also had on the bottom a chunk of green moss we found beside the creek and no telling what else then brothers hankerchief all on that bottom and it all went into the sink. HaaaaOh what a mess! But we all laughed afterwards . The expression on grampas face was priceless!
The kettle was one that when they still had the old syrup mill it got damaged and left behind then forgotten . Gram sunk it in her herb garden to corral a plant that was invasive and spread by root runners . It was huge --- I could have taken a bath in the dang thing.
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Post by circumspice on Jan 6, 2013 15:06:37 GMT -5
Wow ML! It sounds like you had a wonderful childhood! I grew up in a rural suburb in Houston. We had a wonderful creek that was only a 15 minute walk from our home. I think we live at that creek! We built forts, had turf battles with neighboring kids, we made dirt bike & mini bike trails... We even had a big honkin' rope tied to a tree over the widest, deepest part of the creek so we could swing over it & drop into the creek just for fun... We'd leave the house after breakfast & come home just before it got dark. We had so much fun as kids. I pity kids nowadays. They don't know how to entertain themselves or how to have fun playing anymore...
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Post by marielouise on Jan 17, 2013 16:29:05 GMT -5
a rope swing --- yawl was down right uptown with that--- --- we had to use an ole muskydine grape vine that hung over da crick at Grampas---haaaaa it was so much fun .... now in the mountains of New Mexico we could simply jump the creeks iffen there was water in it... But they were crystal clear so if we did wade off into them we always poked a long stick first to check the depth. sometimes they were way deeper then we wanted to go --depending on time of day cuz not only could be deep but was always colder den the witches azz.... But down here in East Texas at grampas the water was so mucky we seldom waded cuz of water mockasins... dem dang ole snakes don't give ya no warning buzz.
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Post by LinFL on Jan 17, 2013 17:31:16 GMT -5
Water moccasins are aggressive, too. I had one chase me away from a creek when I was a kid. There's nothing like seeing 6' of venomous black snake swimming straight at you to get the lead out of your pants! But how'd we get here from yarn, eh? I tried crochet for a while as a kid, and all persons involved quickly realized that I am a waste of good yarn. I admire the beautiful things you folks can create, though.
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Post by capebuff on Jan 17, 2013 21:50:14 GMT -5
the stuff works pretty good as an added attractant when tied a few inches up the line when using eggs for steelhead or salmon. also has a bit of use in flytying. i must say though better stuff is commercially available for these uses. a ball of the stuff makes an excellent " indoor" baseball. trust me though when i say it still breaks things including windows. always make sure when u swing for the fences ( the far wall) make sure it is windowless. the matriarch ( no sense of humor ) doesn't usually enjoy indoor baseball like she should and it may hurt a bit to sit down for a while after your told for the umpteenth time no homeruns.
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Post by marielouise on Jan 18, 2013 0:34:43 GMT -5
ahhh sorry we hi jacked the thread but one thing lead to another and off we went!!!
Lin those ole puff adders--- don't know what else they are called but they are also aggressive --one chased me thru a briar patch and down the road one time . thought I had run up on a cobra when I seen it puff up its haid!!! Grampa laughed for a bit then explained what it was...
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