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Crocheted Milk Jug Covers – 7993th Edition

I recently received the following by email:

Dear Amy,

I have been trying to get a “crochet milk jug cover pattern”, but I have been unsuccessful. Are you able to help me with one please.

Thank you kindly
Mary

Hi Mary! Thanks for the great question. I’ve just updated my list of FAQs to include yours, so here is your answer:

Where to find milk jug cover patterns.

If anyone else knows of a source for crocheted milk jug patterns, either for free or for sale, please feel free to post a comment below. Thanks so much!

Crocheted Milk Jug Coversoriginally appeared onAbout.com Crocheton Monday, February 15th, 2010 at 03:15:58.

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More Nirvana Lace from Stitchjones! – 7992th Edition

Heavenly Nirvana Lace (/index.php?option=com_phpshop&page=shop.yarn_flypage&product_id=3769&category_id=121b410431860df48dbc2496aa8a4451) from Stitchjones (/index.php?option=com_phpshop&page=shop.browse&manufacturer_id=55) – we’ve just received a restock and new fall/winter colorways!

Nirvana (/index.php?option=com_phpshop&page=shop.yarn_flypage&product_id=3769&category_id=121b410431860df48dbc2496aa8a4451) is a luscious combination of fibers: Baby Alpaca, Silk and Cashmere, and with 1312 yds there is enough yarn for your favorite shawl pattern! Or knit it double for a squishy scarf!
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28 Feb 2010 No Comments

In need of a sense of direction(s) – 7991th Edition

When badly written patterns happen to good people.

View full sizeImage courtesy of Wikimedia CommonsI have zero sense of direction. I get lost going around the block. Moving to a new town — and I’ve lived in four states on two coasts in the last 15 years — means I spend years getting lost, unable to leave the house without a map and doomed to disaster any time I encounter a detour.

So it really shouldn’t surprise me that I have trouble with knitting patterns. I’ve always wanted to be one of those people who instinctively knows she’s headed in the wrong direction — literally or figuratively — but alas, I am not. Instead, I’m one of those people who blindly ignores the warning signs — 16 rows for one sleeve and 32 for the other? Sure! — and puts blind faith in the authority of the pattern writers. And boy, have I been burned by that.

If I could somehow do aVulcan mind-meldwith the pattern writers, I’d be OK. Probably. At the very least, I’d be less prone to weeping, ripping and cursing. But since that hasn’t worked out, I’ve learned to rationalize, telling myself that what I’m really doing is modifying existing patterns to better suit my needs. (My need for them to make sense and to produce something vaguely like the pattern picture, that is.)

I’d feel bad about this, but I know I’m not the only one who struggles like this. My friend Jonathan is a crocheter, and I’ve spent more time than I care to think about trying to puzzle out patterns with him and having anguished discussions over where the hook is supposed to go and what the pattern writer really meant. (Jonathan, I should point out, is one of the smartest people I’ve ever known, has the degrees to prove it, and is an expert crocheter who once made a child’s Aran sweater. He’s a rabbi. What does it tell you when a man who can interpret Talmud can’t interpret a crochet pattern? It tells you lots of things, none of them good. And all you pattern writers need to take a moment and meditate on the karmic implication

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28 Feb 2010 No Comments

Triple Treble How To with Diagrams – 7990th Edition

How to crochet the triple treble stitch, learn with diagrams.
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Former West Michigan man gains fame as ‘Crochet Dude’ – 7989th Edition

As a shy teen walking the halls of Saugatuck High School in the early 1980s, Drew Emborsky never imagined he would be receiving fan mail two decades later about his passion for crocheting. “When I was in high school, I didn't go around saying, 'I crochet,'” he said. Now he's the Crochet Dude, and can't stop talking about it.

As a shy teen walking the halls of Saugatuck High School in the early 1980s, Drew Emborsky never imagined he would be receiving fan mail two decades later about his passion for crocheting.

“When I was in high school, I didn’t go around saying, ‘I crochet,’” he said.

Now he’s the Crochet Dude, and can’t stop talking about it.

Courtesy photosThe Crochet Dude:Drew Emborsky, top, receives about 300 e-mails a day from fans of his work. Below is his book, “The Crochet Dude’s Designs for Guys.”

After roughly two decades of career changes, Emborsky found his niche in the world of fiber arts, and fans have found him — the 41-year-old Houston-based crochet pattern designer receives about 300 e-mails a day from followers.

When he enrolled at Kendall College of Art and Design (now part of Ferris State University), he stayed long enough to realize he didn’t want to live the life of a fine artist. So he left to start a surface design company with college friends. They painted interiors around Holland and Saugatuck before do-it-yourself rag- and sponge-painting became all the rage.

After a stint working as a waiter in Nevada, Emborsky took a vacation to Mexico and ended up staying for five years. There, he worked as a school administrator and textbook author.

Shortly after he moved back to the United States, his mother died.

“I was kind of stalled emotionally,” he said.

An early start

He had been crocheting since age 5, when his mother taught him the craft, and he crocheted even more after her death. He started stitching granny squares for a charity organization that made them into blankets.

“I started having all these memories of my mo