These crochet baskets are so lovely that i will make them with my large wooden crochet hook and shirt yarn
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My daughter asked me to make for her in cotton
HISTORY OF CROCHET
First
off I have to say that my favorite crochet is Intarsia (charted) Crochet. I
will be getting into this style later on in this series for any experienced
crocheters.
Compared
with knitting, crochet has a much shorter history, and is thought to have
developed from lace-making. The origin
is debatable, but research suggest that it became a pastime for high-born
ladies in Europe in
the 16th century. It was passed on by nuns, who were the main teachers of
lace-making at that time.
Crochet
was an imitation of lace-making because lace was very expensive and most could
not afford it. The word “crochet” comes from the French word for hook.
It
evolved from a form a needlework called tambouring, which is a cross between
lace-making and crochet. It got its name because it was originally worked in a
frame which resembled a tambourine. It looks like chain
stitches(used in embroidery) and was used to make decorative flower
motifs on muslin and other fabrics.
Once
it was discovered that patterns of
chain stitches could be made by joining them together without the need for a
frame or fabric, lace-making developed into the art we know today as crochet,
although at that time is was done with extremely tiny hooks and fine thread
(sort of like what you would use to make doilies).
The
first publication of crochet patterns was in the 1840′s, crochet became more
popular and not only for the wealthy.
Mille
Riego de la Branchardiere translated several bobbin lace and needle
lace designs into “Irish” crochet patterns for publication.
Irish
Crochet is
said to be the finest form of crochet. Exceedingly intricate and complicated
patterns are worked with fine thread. Queen
Victoria loved
this form of crochet so much that she learned how to do it herself.
Happy crocheting!
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