{"id":35484,"date":"2017-01-24T11:12:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T18:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=35484"},"modified":"2017-01-24T11:12:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T18:12:17","slug":"off-the-beaten-path-roses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/off-the-beaten-path-roses\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the Beaten Path: Roses"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Nanny's<\/a>
Nanny’s Crochet Rose<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was at Craft Night last night when my SILs showed me a piece by their grandmother (DH’s grandmother also). They had gone through her bag of crochet, which SIL#2 has had since she died. They wanted to make something out of the pieces for our niece who is getting married in April.<\/p>\n

We have, or had, a doily that was similar made by my great grandmother (Grama Johnson). I showed my mom and she thinks the cream portion is tatted and the rose and leaves are crocheted. I don’t tat or crochet so I have no idea. I have seen tatting and the outer cream work does look like tatting.<\/p>\n

Of course, I did a web search to see what I could find. Lots of Etsy patterns that were not relevant. I did find Picmia<\/a>, which has lots of flowers. What I would really like to see is an index of patterns by technique.<\/p>\n

I thought that Workbasket, an older magazine that I believe is out of print might have been a source of the pattern. I found a pay per view resource<\/a>. It has a free history of the magazine. This is clearly a labor of love, however I found it a little difficult to navigate. I also found an index<\/a> of Tatting patterns from Workbasket. I didn’t find the pattern for the piece above.<\/p>\n

In my web travels, I found some interesting sites. Needlenthread has online resources<\/a> that include historic needlework sites, coloring pages and vintage pattern sites. The resources appear mostly to be about embroidery.<\/p>\n

This is the sort of reference project into which, as a librarian, I could sink my teeth. Too bad nobody pays me for this.<\/p>\n

Let me know if you have seen such a thing. I have a couple of vintage books I can look at and will do that later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was at Craft Night last night when my SILs showed me a piece by their grandmother (DH’s grandmother also). They had gone through her bag of crochet, which SIL#2 has had since she died. They wanted to make something out of the pieces for our niece who is getting married in April. We have, … Continue reading “Off the Beaten Path: Roses”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[317,86],"class_list":["post-35484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-434","tag-history","tag-off-topic-crafts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}