So after many many years I have finally conquered the French knot. 

random stuffs mostly vintage and found

Ahh back to school time- the smell of new pencils & notebooks and the crowds of crazed parents wandering through Target looking for the ONE item that does not exist, but is yet on the supply list. Kid #1 is a huge Pokémon fan (it comes with the age) and he needed a pencil case […]
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 […]