How hard is it to make a blanket out of yarn? I remember I used to crochet when I was pregnant with my 9 yr old. I don't know if I was making anything but a long strip of knitted yarn. I would love to know how hard it would be to crochet something, make blankets for my lil monsters!

Monique

Okay, Von, this is weird. I'm a jr. Civil War buff myself, I just stimulated the economy with my very own copy of the Ken Burns series. I was at Gettysburg last year and I have to go back because the new museum should be opening any day now!

The weird part is, I'm a trunk junky too. I have a really cool one with a packing list still inside the lid, written in quill & ink with things like "corset ~ 2" and "hankerchiefs ~ 6" and "lacing hooks", etc. It's really fun to imagine where it may have been, whose it was, did she marry John Astor and change her life? Was she a war widow? Was she American? I love that junk!

Is saving everything I, my parents, and my grandparents ever owned the same as collecting something?

My mother actually "collected" things--match covers, coins, doilies, dogs (especially Scotties), postcards, shells, rocks...yikes. I mostly just "keep" things. Baby clothes, books, shoe boxes, photos, letters my mom and dad wrote each other in the 40's. I refer to these things as my daughter's inheritance.

Someday I'm going to have a really cool collection of something, when I decide what it is. I made the mistake of telling a couple of people I liked puffins, and I ended up with puffin salt shakers, puffin magnets, puffin dish towels. Erf.

Is a puffin like a penguin?? I should just google it.. like I do everything else I don't know I don't know what I can give my sons for an inheritance.. my mother is giving me her jewelry..even tho I don't wear anything but a cross. Boys are different.. decisions decisions...they'll probably just want money!

Monique

It's not hard at all, depends on the intricasy (sp?) of the pattern.

If you just do a solid stitch like a half double crochet, or a double crochet back and forth until you think it's big enough, it's pretty easy.

I used to collect Precious Moments figurines--most of them have a cowboy/western theme..... They are all boxed up now and stored away... No where to display them.


I guess I collect Tony Stewart matchbox size cars... I've never bought one but I have MANY... I also have all of the Semi's w/trailers.



Abbie

Oh my.. my mom has a curio cabinet filled with those little things. She used to get them monthly and special ones.. and even bought some for my sons which I think are in a cardboard box in the garage! They were cute.. but when I think of all the money she spent on those Precious Moments..she could of sent us all to school

Monique

Ponder....

Fine....

I have a Dalmatian collection. The nice music boxes, water globes, etc, are on display, while the carp like stuffed dogs are in boxes. Why? Cause someday when I have grandkids we can play with the stuff and then they can take one home and it will be my kid's problem to deal with.

(Holly...I have the dalmatian frame right here on my computer desk!)

I think this thread should be stickied and renamed as:

This Years Christmas Exchange Wish List! Just joshin'.





One poster mentioned something that I did have a collection of at one stage.

Some-one gave me the cutest ***** for a gift quite some time ago, and I commented on how sweet it was. WRONG thing to do!

Every birthday, every Christmas, every available excuse people bought me gifts of **** . I had them on every available shelf, coming out of every cupboard, lined up anywhere they'd fit.

Finally I yelled ENOUGH!

I kept the very first ***** I was given and threw the rest out. No-one will ever know what that **** was because I do not want to see another*** in my house! EVER!

Is this soft porn?