OT: Craft photos/was: Re: Re: Inspirations...(not the store lol//

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Maybe I could start out with lustersheen or something like

that....lol...because thread STILL scares me although I will crochet

with cotton! And then there's the time; this is the year I finish

all my unfinished projects (my older sons are cheering, they are

finally getting their afghans that they got yarn for one

Christmas.....when they were um 11 and 9, they'll be 25 and

23...hehehe) and add a few 'ghans along the way for my two new kids,

my grands....sigh....never enough time!

Darlene

>

> > Maybe it was my terminology - I generally crochet with yarn versus

> > thread and wanted to know if her snowflakes were made with yarn.

> > There is a craft called tatting but I don't know what it involves.

> >

>

> I make most of my snowflakes with size 10 bedspread weight cotton.

I

> just worked through this book of patterns:

>

> http://www.amazon.com/60-Crocheted-Snowflakes-Dover-Needlework/dp/

> 0486253937

>

> That book calls for 20 or even 30 weight thread. As the numbers

get

> higher, the thread gets thinner, and the crochet hook you use

looks

> more and more like a dental instrument. There's also size 50 and

> even 100 thread; that's getting around the size of sewing

thread.

> This time through the book, I used #10 thread exclusively, because

> they get too small with the 20 and 30 thread. I have another book

of

> patterns, where some of them get too big with #10 thread, so next

> time around I'll use 20 or even 30 thread for some.

>

> Last year I stuck snowflakes in Christmas cards. They make nice

> spontaneous gifts throughout the year, if I need a gift for

someone.

> Even if I've given the person snowflakes before, there's always

more

> room on the Christmas tree. ;D ;D My sister swears that the

people

> at the hospital where she works would gobble them up like hotcakes

if

> I sold them; I'm tempted to try.

>

> Funny - first time around with crochet, in the 70's, I always

looked

> longingly at thread crochet but was afraid to try it. Now, I

ain't

> afraid of nuthin'. ;D

>

> Tatting involves the use of a shuttle and bobbin, and I think that

> you manually wind thread around thread. The work looks finer and

> lacier than crochet, at least what I've seen of it. I've never

done

> it; don't know anything about it. It uses the same kind of thread

as

> crochet, I believe, but thinner weights.

>

> Z (Hmmmmmm....I see on Amazon that there's a book of 99

> snowflake patterns...)(Steady on, old girl...) ;D

>

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