Posted by Underground Crafter on January 3, 2013 |
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Regular readers may know that I have a sizeable collection of vintage needlecrafts books. (I’m using the Etsy definition of vintage, which includes anything at least 20 years old.) I currently have over 50 vintage books, e-books, and magazines in my collection. I love looking through older needlecrafts books. While the very old pattern [...]
Tags: 2013 vintage needlecrafts pick of the week, amazon, antique pattern library, crochet concupiscence, crochetbug, etsy, free vintage crochet, free vintage knitting, google books, half.com, internet archive, knit heaven, paperback book swap, public domain, totally free crochet patterns, vintage, vintage crochet
Posted by Underground Crafter on August 15, 2012 |
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Today, I’m interviewing Kathryn Vercillo, one of my favorite crochet bloggers, for the second time. (You can check out the first interview here.) Kathryn recently self published a book, Crochet Saved My Life, about the ways crochet supports physical and mental healing. Kathryn is a professional writer, and her work has been published in magazines such [...]
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Posted by Underground Crafter on December 24, 2011 |
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From 1998 to 2007, I kept a list of every book I read in a beautiful Daisy Arts handmade journal. (I used the same journal to track all the movies I saw in the theater, but only in 1999.) Looking through the pages of this book, I have a great reminder of my interests (and how [...]
Tags: amazon, audiobooks, daisy arts, itunes, kindle fire, margaret atwood, new york public library, oryx and crake, reading, the handmaid's tale
Posted by Underground Crafter on October 10, 2011 |
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Since getting an amazing deal on Modular Crochet: A Revolutionary New Method for Creating Custom-Design Pullovers, I have started amassing vintage crochet books at a rapid pace. My favorite sources are PaperBackSwap.com (free books!), Amazon.com, and Etsy. I was inspired to share my recent finds with you by this post by Andi at Untangling Knots. [...]
Tags: amazon, anne halliday, best of woman's day crochet: a treasury of classic and contemporary crochet patterns, blogtoberfest 2011, coats and clark, coats and clark's book no 208, curly pops, decorating with crochet, design crochet, etsy, exciting crochet: a course in broomstick lace and tunisian crochet, granny square love, great granny crochet book, jacqueline henderson, jean leinhauser, jein leinhauser, judith copeland, mark dittrick, modular crochet, muriel kent, paperback book swap, project: stash, rita weiss, sarah london, stitch by stitch, tinnie girl, untangling knots, vintage, vintage crochet, weekend afghans, woman's day book of designer crochet
Posted by Underground Crafter on August 15, 2011 |
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(You still have time to enter to win in my week of giveaways celebrating my 100th blog post! For a list of giveaways and deadlines for entry, check out this post.) This week, I don’t have anything related to my year of projects goal (to work my way through Crochet Master Class) to show. I [...]
Tags: amazon, arnetta kenney, certified crochet instructors program, come blog a long, craft yarn council, crochet, cyc, etsy, fashion institute of technology, for paws and home, judith copeland, modular crochet, retail therapy, year of projects, YOP11-12
