Category Archives: Occasions

Placemat for Christmas

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DSC08152  This Christmas placemat was in response to a request for a placemat  that is solid (not lacy), done in #10 crochet cotton, and for the season.  I used the start of a free log cabin afghan design , only instead of #4 yarn, I used three strands of #10 Crochet cotton, with a size) steel hook.   I added a dark green border in the same style using one half the width of the blocks.   The design, measuring 21 inches wide, and 15 inches tall, is completely  done in double crochet.  This placemat weighs 200 grams, the amount of yarn in four, 175 yard packs of #10 cotton.

 

Crocheted Halloween and Thanksgiving Pumpkin Containers

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DSC08120A friend asked me to crochet a pumpkin, so I did, basically using this free pattern.  This pumpkin is made with 100% cotton worsted weight yarn,  with size G and H hooks, as suggested by the pattern.  I could not find the leaf pattern on the leaf, so I used a modified classic type of leaf design.

DSC08116 Then I thought of making a larger pumpkin using the same pattern, only I used double strands of yarn in orange and yellow 85% worsted weight cotton, with size H and I crochet hooks.  The pumpkin stems are made according to the pattern directions, only I used stitches to curve them a little.  The smaller pumpkin is 4 1/2 inches in diameter and 3 inches tall, exclusive of the  stem and leaf.  The larger pumpkin is about 5 1/4 inches in diameter, and 3 1/2 inches tall exclusive of the stem and leaf.

DSC08124 Here you can see the inside of the pumpkins under the lid.

DSC08121 The leaf on this larger pumpkin is made with two strands of yarn in different shades of green in a free-form design made up as I went along.

“In Later Years We’ll Still Love and Bless Thee…”

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As we have, and do!  Who could guess some of us would live to see a remarkable class reunion in 2015.  This building holds so much for all of us, as well as for  those who preceded and followed us in walking through its halls.  This building is much more dear to me than the new, and now demolished, old, new, high school .

DSC06689 An unusual photo of the main building where some of us attended classes in an extension of lower elementary.  (From the 1963 Yearbook.)

DSC06693 Our ideals were as lofty as those expressed in this Alma Mater.  How often its phrases have crossed over my mind, and how true it is that “In later years, we’ll still love and bless thee when in the great world’s strife.”  I hold all of these experiences in my memory’s sacred place.  (From the 2010 Reunion packet.)

(The author of these words may have been born around 1890 or 1889.)