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anoramaxsis

Does anyone know where I could find a graph for a horse and a hummingbird to crochet?

PhoenixTears62 · MANIA MOD

Maxine try here:
http://crafts.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Free_Filet_Crochet_Patterns

anoramaxsis

PhoenixTears62 · MANIA MOD

You are very welcome:) Yes time does fly. I admire you for knowing what you want to make. I am sure they will love it:)

anoramaxsis

It is easy to know what to make if you know what the person likes. It's when you do not know them well that it gets complicated.

Kahud48 · BOARD OWNER

Oh that hummingbird is so pretty, I wish I could work more with thread.
I just never really did much with it. Whenever I tried, it would always frustrate me and I would put it down.

anoramaxsis

I have been known to take a doily pattern and tweek it into an afghan pattern. With your design skills it would be easy. I did it once with a graph of an angel and made a baby afghan.

Kahud48 · BOARD OWNER

Thank you for the kind words Maxine

I have played around with doing that before. I might try it again, you never know about this old woman

I see so many thread patterns that are just simply beautiful!

anoramaxsis

Kahud48 · BOARD OWNER

Oh I know, thread patterns are beautiful. My Aunt use to make those roses and she put them on the hankies too. I saw some she did on the his and hers pillow cases. It always amazed me at how she could do that.

She did hem stitching on the pillow cases too. Now that was beautiful. She did it all handmade, no machine. I was aw struck at how beautiful the things she made was.

anoramaxsis

I find it very amazing. I never thought a thing about half of the things my mother,grandmother, and great grandmother made. I now wish I had paid closier attention and learned more. As a young girl I watched them Knit, crochet, quilt, tool leather handbags and wallets, make hand stitched and braided rugs. It is amazing what we take for granted and overlook only to wish we had paid closier attention later on in life. I am quite sure with your talent that lovely hummingbird doily could easily become a wall hanging or an afghan.

Kahud48 · BOARD OWNER

Me too. I use to watch my Grandmomma for hours. She did quilts from scratch, no sewing machine. She did embroidery too. She would take your white flat sheets and cut them up into pillow cases and my Aunt would do the hem stitching on them. Then my Grandmomma would iron on the his and hers designs that she would buy through the mail, then embroidery them. I never got into the quilting but I did learn how to do some of the embroidery stitches. I love to do the french knot, I have
added that from time to time on some of my crochet things.

anoramaxsis

I will forever wish I had spent more time with them learning more than I did. I'm going to travel this week to find thread. I went locally and was very disappointed. Iwill drool over all the thread at Michaels and hobby lobby. I was on the internet looking at fancy handcrafted crochet hooks and knitting needles. I have been trying to narrow my x-mas list so I can soon start. Time does fly one minute it's June then it's December.Take care.