Guest guest Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 Tatting is an entirely different " art " than crochet. I still kick myself as I gave a distant cousin the beautiful varigated color dress my mother crochet for me, there are black and white pictures of me wearing it either around Easter the year I was 1 or perhaps on my first birthday. But with the black and white, you cannot, obviously see the colors or the ribbon she wove around the neck and tied in a bow! Then, in the late 1960's or early '70's, she was going to crochet me another dress but I don't know what happened to that! Just as I don't know where the pineapple patterned table cloth she mush have been working prior to my brother's death. It was packed away and in her cedar chest for the rest of her life. Those items were made with cotton crochet thread; it's a different ply than sewing thread, but the same thread that is used for tatting. She also made so many people in the family afghans -- one of my cousins had hung the one she made for he and his family on the wall as he consider it a piece of art (and he should have known, he was also an artist!) And if anyone has ever seen a catherdal window quilt, you can imagine the quilt she made during the winters she and my father were snow birds in Texas and Arizona. That was her high school graduation present to my niece (now 36! but she is not allowed to have it! her mom has kept!). But she was never able to sit still long enough for an aunt or grandmother to teach her how to knit! That I taught myself, but things do have a tendency to some tires unravel! And my middle sister claims I knit backwords! Ha! I do a lot of things back works! > > > > So , these crocheted snowflakes, are they made with thread or > > regular yarn? Because I'm a yarnie, never got the feel for thread, > so > > to speak...... > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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