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

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Oh! my! 53 years!!! But I did realize last night when I remembered

Mother's bedspread or table cloth, that after my brother's death, she

was really in a state of shock for so long after that, that the last

thing she may have wanted to do was work on it! It was packed away

in a dress box and spent so many years in the cedar chest. But I do

think that the same person who will not let her adult daughter have

her cathedral window quilt has the bedspread!

And I did start making cathedral window squares which might just be

something I will start working on again after we move!! I just have

to remember how to do some of the steps to making one!! Even my

sister who has had her quilted pieces in artisan shops in Illinois

doesn't make any of those, I think she much prefers to do the large

quilts and also all of the hand work.

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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!

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> My grandniece is on a basketball team. One of her teammates was

> worrying about a particularly aggressive girl on another team. My

> grandniece said " It's a girl, and a ball! "

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> It's a hook, and a ball of thread! ;D ;D Get a size 6 hook, a

> pattern for a doily or snowflake, a ball of thread, and get

started!

> The stitches are exactly the same as for the afghan. You already

> know how to do them. It's smaller work, but you get used to it

> quickly and it's exactly the same and a lot more portable than an

> afghan. I guarantee you'll love the results. You could start

with

> filet crochet; it's basically double crochet in blocks and spaces.

A

> bit boring but the results are beautiful. That's what those

curtains

> that I made are.

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> BTW, my mom has you beat on the afghans. She started a baby quilt

in

> 1943 when my brother was born, and finally finished it in 1990 for

> his first granddaughter. ;D

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