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Why buy #potholders when with a few thousand in supplies and tools you can make your own?

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Ornamented Lonzenge
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The Ornamented Lozenge Pattern by Virginia L Harvey

Red beads contrast against the white rayon lasting cord to make an interesting and distinctive diamond or lozenge pattern. The beads must be selected very carefully because the over-all size must fit the space they fill in the pattern and they must have holes large enough to take two strands of the knotting material. Each […]

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How to Make Fire Starters from Egg Cartons, Dryer Lint, and old candles

Back in the before times one thing we did a fair amount of was camping. The best part of camping was always the campfire. Getting the fire lit though could be a problem- hence the need for fire starters. I could always buy fire starters but we always have dryer lint, have a back stock […]

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Octagon Pattern For Bedspread No. 853

The Octagon Pattern For Bedspreads No. 853 dates from 1920 and was originally published in Corticelli Lessons in Crochet Nook No. 13. I have been searching to see what the original yardage of the Mercerized Cordonnet was but thinking it was nowhere near the yardage of crochet thread today but thinking it was closer to […]