Welcome Dear Readers. I’ve recently taken up crocheting. I don’t know what I’m making as yet — so far it’s just a big strip of crocheted yarn that’s getting fatter and fatter. And I’m really enjoying it —but what is one to do with a big, oversized chunk of crocheted yarn?
Well, maybe this 1984 edition of Annie’s Pattern Club Magazine that I found at the thrift store can give us some crocheting ideas:
Just when you thought your toilet couldn’t get any more beautiful!
Leave it to Annie to flush out this fabulous crocheting project through the process of elimination! After crocheting a cozy for every single thing in her bathroom, nothing was left cozy-less but the toilet and a bottle of Pepto Bismal (instructions for a Pepto Bismal bottle cozy were probably in the next edition).
I think you’ll have to agree there’s nothing quite as uplifting as lifting up the lid of your toilet and finding a fresh-as-daisy Daisy that you lovingly crafted all by yourself!
Hey! Here’s a little crocheting project sure to get any little boy singing your praises:
Of course, we all know there’s nothing little boys of a certain age love to do more than flip up their collars, pick up a crocheted microphone and crone crone crone to their heart’s content — providing they didn’t leave said heart in San Francisco, that is!
Let’s face it, there isn’t a little boy on earth who, upon receiving a crocheted microphone for his birthday wouldn’t tear up! Just before kicking you in the shins and running away from home, but still!
Crochet your way to total enlightenment!
It’s a crying shame that it took someone until the year 1984 to come up with the idea of crocheting a lamp when Thomas Edison invented the electrical light way back in 1879! And you have to ask yourself why? Why were the crocheters of the past so out of sync with the creation and evolution of electricity?
Was it because crocheters didn’t have electric lamps or was it be because Thomas Edison didn’t know how to crochet? Chances are, unless the science channel really gets hard up for programming, we’ll never know the answer to these questions and a lot of other stupid questions. Either way, please try not to let it ruin your weekend!
And there you have it Dear Readers! It seems the possibilities are endless when it comes to crocheting. Who knew? If you need me I’ll be on the couch, crocheting and crocheting and crocheting. I’m thinking of turning my project into a cozy for the moon. Too ambitious? Let me know in the comments.
Until next time . . . I love you
There was no surface in my grandmother’s house that was not covered by a lace doily. A few years ago people here were covering telephone poles and bike racks with crocheted works. The bike racks were actually a good idea as a way to keep from scratching your bike frame.
Really? I had no idea! Yes the bike rack idea is actually pretty good, but telephone poles? I bet your grandma could have covered a telephone pole in nothing flat!
She used really fine cotton. It would probably have taken years. My daughter crocheted a really long strip. It would make an excellent scarf for a few dozen dolls.
There’s something fun about crocheting. Too bad the results are so useless.
Well thanks to you I FINALKY know what to get Henry for Christmas! What 10 year old boy wouldn’t want a crotchet covered microphone to sing his favorite show tunes? Maybe you can cut a strip off your large rectangle of crotchet and make it for me!
Next you will have to take up sewing.
LOL! I got really fat yarn. I know nothing about buying yarn and it was on sale. So the slab of crocheting is about an inch and a half thick. So I could make one for the microphone you wouldn’t be able to hear a thing. Maybe I could use it for soundproofing things though.
Give someone a doily and they laugh at you behind your back as they’re burning it. Teach someone to crochet and they spend the rest of their lives in an insane asylum twiddling their fingers to the bone and mumbling incoherently while crocheting mountains of items no one will ever use.
Oh Russell, I just love it when you quote Gandhi.
That’s nothing. You should hear me quote Elmer Fudd.
Re: the microphone – If the kiddo decides he will actually wear a kiddo sized Iron Maiden shirt that I have bookmarked, and the ripped knee jeans that are, according to him, unwearable (though in about 10 years he’ll be shredding them on purpose), I will get the mic and a knit hat shaped like a mullet (because we don’t even need to look it up to know it exists) for a rockin 80’s costume. Plus all that gear supports small businesses.
Hello! I hope you’re doing well.
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Hi Riya! Crocheting is a great help! Even though I don’t really know what I’m doing, I find it very therapeutic! I will check out your blog and thank you for stopping by!