MY FIRST PATTERN!

 This is my very first written pattern. Please feel free to use it any way you like but do not post it or claim it as your own. Please link back to this blog. Thank you!

 THIS PATTERN HAS NOT BEEN TESTED EXCEPT BY ME. PLEASE EMAIL ME WITH ANY PROBLEMS. THANK YOU

CHANGE PURSE PATTERN    by Annette McKitrick

SMALL AMOUNT OF WORSTED WEIGHT YARN  (I USED COTTON WW)

SIZE G CROCHET HOOK

BODY:

CHAIN 18

1.  SINGLE CROCHET IN SECOND CH FROM HOOK AND IN EACH CH ACROSS..  CH 2 TURN

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2.  HDC IN EACH ST TO END.  WORKING AROUND OTHER SIDE OF PIECE, 1 HDC IN SIDE END, HDC IN EACH ST LOOP ACROSS BOTTOM OF WORK, HDC IN SIDE END. Continue to work around - do not close off each row.

3.     CONTINUE TO HDC IN EACH STITCH AROUNG UNTIL PIECE MEASURES  3.5 INCHES

4.      PIECE HAS FORMED CYLINDER. TO FORM THE FLAP,  ON

NEXT ROW, HDC ON ONE SIDE ONLY 17 STITCHES – CH 2 TURN

5.  DEC HDC IN FIRST STITCH, HDC EACH ST TO LAST 2 HDC, DEC HDC, CH 2 TURN  15 STS

6.  HDC IN EACH ST ACROSS, CH 2 TURN  15 STS

7.     DEC HDC IN FIRST ST, HDC IN EACH ST ACROSS, DEC HDC IN LAST 2 ST.  CH 2 TURN  13 ST

8.     REPEAT ROW 7 - 11 STS

9.     TO WORK BUTTON LOOP -SLIP ST IN FIRST 5 STS, CH8, SS INTO 6^TH  ST, SS IN REMAINING STS  -  END WORK.  WEAVE IN ENDS.

10.   FOLD FLAP DOWN,  SEW BUTTON IN APPROPRIATE SPOT

ENJOY!!

Making a Blog

No one ever told me that making a blog was so much work!  This is truly a learning experience.  And I am not a novice at the computer.  I would say that I am an intermediate at computer experience.  A lot of this is just trial and error.  Learning what works and what does not work.  I have scanned my vintage patterns to post now I just have to find a way to get them from microsoft word doc to this blog. 

I recently bought a lot of old sewing supplies on eBay.  In this lot were a bunch of crochet patterns from the 1940's.  They are no longer under copyright so I will post them here.
Keep looking.  I will get them up yet!  In the mean time, I continue my never ending search for different free patterns on the web.  Just when I think I have exhausted the supply of available blogs,  new ones pop up.  And just when I find a new bunch of patterns to print I run out of printer ink!  Isn't that always the way?  I think it is Murphy's Law for computers.
Remember Murphy's Law from the 70's?  They were quite funny.  I remember one - 
"The side to which the buttered bread falls is directly related to the cost of the carpet".
In other word if your carpet is an expensive unreplaceable antique,  the buttered bread will fall face down and ruin it.  If the carpet is an inexpensive washable one the buttered bread will fall face up and not harm it.  Get it?  I still chuckle at this.  Isn't life kind of like this?  Isn't it ironic!
Does anyone remember Sniglets?  Thats where someone would make up a new word and definition about something common that had no word.  The one I remember most is
"lactomangulation"  which is what happens when the paper milk carton you are trying to open decides that it dosen't want to be opened.  Then you get a knife and try to open it with that and mess it all up and end up destroying the pour spout on the carton!  Now
who has not had this happen to them?  Well, now you have a word to describe it.  I remember having books on sniglets.  I am not sure where they originated - for some reason Laugh-in comes to mind.  If you know their source then drop me a line.
Don't forget to tell someone that you love them today.  After all is said and done, Love is the only thing that matters.