And Another Thing
@GardenGerty (169449)
United States
September 27, 2016 7:23am CST
The lovely crocheted piece under the green glass was crocheted by my first mother in law. It is Irish crochet with roses in the motif. My mom made sleeves for my wedding dress the same, only with pearls in each rose.
I have not the patience for thread crochet, but I love all the various pieces I own. I can crochet with yarn but it is bigger. I really know I could never do tatting it is even more fine. I know some of you here do these crafts and knitting as well. I feel envious.
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@GardenGerty (169449)
• United States
27 Sep 16
Winter is a great time to do hand crafts. I never realized tatting had a practical purpose. That is wonderful to know that about your grandfather.
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@GardenGerty (169449)
• United States
29 Sep 16
@LadyDuck No, I have never seen anything quite like that. I will want to read more about it.
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@LadyDuck (502379)
• Italy
28 Sep 16
@GardenGerty Women in Italy make lace using this sort of pillow that we call "tombolo", I do not know its name in English. Have you ever seen it?
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@HazySue (39265)
• Gouverneur, New York
27 Sep 16
@GardenGerty how pretty, she did a beautiful job. I used to have the patience to do work like this, now not so much. Your wedding dress must have been beautiful.
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@GardenGerty (169449)
• United States
27 Sep 16
I do not think I have ever had the particular enough eyesight for work like this.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
27 Sep 16
I have a huge trash bag filled with crochet items done by my mother and my grandmother. I have one or two small ones out, but that's enough for me. I never wanted to learn to crochet or knit.
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@GardenGerty (169449)
• United States
29 Sep 16
@AbbyGreenhill Or sold as part of an estate sale. Some people who are not family might enjoy having them.
@GardenGerty (169449)
• United States
27 Sep 16
I have several family pieces from my mom and a large tablecloth made by my grandmother.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
28 Sep 16
@GardenGerty My issue now is I have no one to pass these things down to so eventually they will probably wind up in the trash someday in the future.
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@ilocosboy (45155)
• Philippines
27 Sep 16
It's a nice crochet. My wife also knows how to make but it's a lot of time to make
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@GardenGerty (169449)
• United States
27 Sep 16
Oh how nice for your wife. Yes it does take lots of time even when it is done with yarn. Thread like this takes much longer.
@GardenGerty (169449)
• United States
27 Sep 16
Your comment showed up twice my friend so I deleted the other copy of it.
@GardenGerty (169449)
• United States
27 Sep 16
This internet keeps us from lots of things.
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@thelme55 (79308)
• Germany
28 Sep 16
@GardenGerty so true but at least, we are well informed now what is happening in world.
@GardenGerty (169449)
• United States
29 Sep 16
@thelme55 We are, and we have friends from everywhere.
@Happy2BeMe (99353)
• Canada
27 Sep 16
That is a very beautiful crocheted piece. A lot of time and hard work went into that. I am not very creative when it comes to stuff like that but I do love it.
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@GardenGerty (169449)
• United States
27 Sep 16
After her sons all grew up my first mother in law liked to do a lot of needlework.
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@GardenGerty (169449)
• United States
29 Sep 16
@Happy2BeMe She liked needle arts much better than cooking.
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@divalounger (6182)
• United States
27 Sep 16
This is gorgeous! You are so lucky to have this
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@CinnamonGrl (7086)
• Santa Fe, New Mexico
27 Sep 16
That really is beautiful. So is the green glass, for that matter. My Nana crocheted, she made lots of pretty things. I didn't have the patience, and now my eyes don't cooperate. We do have some very talented needle workers at myLot.
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@GardenGerty (169449)
• United States
27 Sep 16
I have a full sized "pineapple" tablecloth my grandmother made. Others in my family have done a lot of thread crochet. For me, it is an eye issue as well.
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
28 Sep 16
Some are very talented and can created great things! For some reason, all of us in this family have lost interest in such things.
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@GardenGerty (169449)
• United States
29 Sep 16
My daughter in law is handy at whatever she sets her mind to. I am not so sure where my daughter falls on this spectrum
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
28 Sep 16
my gram can, her stuff is lovely, well she wont Tat anymore, she says it's way too tedious for her
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@GardenGerty (169449)
• United States
29 Sep 16
Tatting is such fine thread it would be hard to be patient with it.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
30 Sep 16
@GardenGerty I once had an ornament she tatted, I loved it, but it was lost years ago, and I do remember it looked like it was done with sewing thread almost
@GardenGerty (169449)
• United States
27 Sep 16
I never have learned to knit, although I can do loom knitting.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
3 Oct 16
@GardenGerty That sounds interesting. Is it easier?
@JESSY3236 (22246)
• United States
27 Sep 16
i have something similar to that. I don't remember where I got it. But then somehow I got a hole in it and it got stained so I had to throw it away.
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@GardenGerty (169449)
• United States
27 Sep 16
I might have appliqued something like that onto something else. I have a hard time letting go of stuff.
@GardenGerty (169449)
• United States
27 Sep 16
I did not do well with cross stitiching. I could do stamped cross stitching but not counted cross stitch.
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
27 Sep 16
Lovely cloth...those handmade things are so precious.I used to do tatting but not anymore
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@GardenGerty (169449)
• United States
27 Sep 16
Oh, that would be quite an achievement, I would think.
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