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You may find here all kinds of sites related to crocheting and crochet crafts, including patterns, pictures, instructions, personal stories, supplies and more! Pictured: an Irish crocheted doily from the 1920s.
Well it has been a while since I posted on here. Well its 2012, I have 3 boys and a husband. 2 cats and a dog. Still living in the same house, and doing more crafting then ever. Still a member of HPKCHC and loving every bit of my crafting time, which now includes knitting. finally I have mastered knit and purl and a few other stitches. I have craft...
Begin with 4 chain stitches, and work 1 single on the 1st chain, to make a round. Work, 1 chain and 2 plain on the next chain, 3 plain on each of the next 3 chain, 1 plain on the stitch on which the two first plain are worked. Slip the next stitch, that is, put the needle in between the horizontal bars of the 1st plain stitch of the previous row, ...
Materials: Messrs. Walter Evans and Co.'s crochet cotton No. 8 or 20. This pattern can be used for a couvrette or pincushion cover, according to the size of the cotton with which it is worked. Each star is begun in the centre by a chain of 8 stitches. In the 1st stitch work 1 treble, * 4 chain, 1 treble in this same 1st stitch, repeat from * 3 tim...
Materials: 1 skein of black purse silk: 1 skein of coloured ditto; a few steel beads; and a steel clasp. The open portion of this purse is worked in coloured, and the raised rose and outer border in black, silk, the latter being dotted with steel beads. A few rows of plain double crochet are worked, increasing where necessary, to make the work lie...
The plain foundation chain consists of chain stitches. Form a loop with the cotton or other material with which you work, take it on the needle, and hold the cotton as for knitting on the forefinger and other fingers of the left hand. The crochet-needle is held in the right hand between the thumb and forefinger, as you hold a pen in writing; hold ...
Crochet 2 chain stitches, insert the needle downwards into the left side of the 1st chain stitch, throw the cotton forward, draw it out as a loop, wind the cotton again round the needle and draw it through the two loops on the needle, * draw the cotton as a loop through the left side of the last stitch (see illustration), wind the cotton round the...
Crochet 4 chain stitch, then 1 treble stitch--that is, wind the cotton round the needle, insert the needle downwards into the left side of the 1st of the 4 chain stitches, wind the cotton round the needle, draw it through the stitch, wind the cotton again round the needle, and at the same time draw the cotton through the last loop and through the ...
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A blog dedicated to the crocheters world. This blog is continually constructed and updated in order to gather and re-disperse information about the history, and evolution of the craft of crocheting. My goal is to help beginners, advance the intermediate and keep experienced crocheters interested in the craft.
Basic information on crocheting, plus a collection of free crochet patterns in the public domain. These are mostly vintage patterns; alot are from "Beeton's Book of Needlework" as originally published in Great Britain in 1870 by Ward, Lock and Tyler. Enjoy!
My personal crochet website with a few of my finished crochet projects and lots of links to free patterns and other useful sites pertaining to the art of crochet. Also some free patterns.
