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Essential Crochet Dictionary review
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes If you’ve read my other crochet book reviews, you know I love to read crochet books published in other countries, so Essential Crochet Dictionary by Sophie Martin is a perfect choice for me. It was originally published in 2016 as L’essentiel des Points de Crochet,…
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Triangles are their wily ways
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Geometry was not a good subject for me in high school. It was going alright until the poor teacher went and had a heart attack, so the class ended up with a substitute who was more interested in letting the guys in our class know…
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Wrapping up Pushing Daisies
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes I’ve gotten very energetic and finished up the Pushing Daisies series. I ended up watching much of it while not exercising, though I am still at the exercise. I hate it but lifting the big thing of cat litter was easier today, so something is…
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A discussion of crochet in Boo, Bitch (Netflix)
Estimated reading time: 11 minutes Confession: I watched Boo, Bitch when it first came out in 2022. I enjoy a little creepy viewing around Halloween, yet tween style scary is about as far as I can go without giving myself nightmares. So I watched it and liked it. I did…
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Pushing Daisies: Pigeon
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes I’ve made it to episode 4. I think this is my favorite episode for crochet. It’s a good overall episode with the weird bedazzled pigeon wing and the windmills and the Birdhouse in Your Soul sing-along, but the crochet is really something. This episode, I…
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A big pile of UFOs
Estimated reading time: 15 minutes. Go make some tea. Do you have a lot of UFOs? It’s surprising how a project that starts well can be derailed by life and end up sitting in a bag waiting for the sun to shine on it again. I am almost finished with…
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Bright Star and its teasing crochet, part 2
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes (more if you get lost down a rabbit-hole of Sophie Digard’s work partway through reading) Disclaimer: I know that crochet in the Regency period did not really look like what we see in the movie Bright Star. There are lots of people out there talking…
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Review of Amazing Japanese Crochet Stitches
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes I love Japanese crochet books. There is something different, dare I say, more refined and elegant about the way Japanese pattern makers use crochet stitches to create beautiful projects. The entire project looks designed. It doesn’t just stop at the edge, the edge is designed…
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Pushing Daisies: The Fun in Funeral
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Having faithfully continued my watching and exercising plan, I’m back with another episode of Pushing Daisies and its attendant crochet. As for the exercise, it is possible I am slightly stronger; however, my elbow has begun to ache, and I am babying that now. There’s…
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A Poet Dreams of Warmth Capelet
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes I met Violeta, my very best friend, when we both took our kids to a homeschool art class. We sat outside and chatted while our children learned to draw. We bonded over a shared love of books and pets and nature. When my father fell…
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