If the Crochet N More website and/or Crochet N More Newsletter
have been helpful to you and you would like to make a donation
Click Here
THIS ISSUE IS SPONSORED BY:
 |
 |
011508
011508
Dear Subscriber:
I pray everyone is having a wonderful new year!
We're
starting off this year with a small change to our newsletter.
Since we haven't had very many Award requests lately
we decided to change that category.
In place of Awards, we now have a category called:
"Questions from the CNM Message Board".
Enjoy!
Now's the time to start planning this year's gifts... birthdays, Christmas,
etc.
Get started here:
http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com/directory.php
Lisa
and Tim
PEN PAL?
If you would like
to be added to the Crochet 'N' More Pen Pal list please send an email
including the following:
Name, Email Address and Interests.
(For interests, please send General Information Only such as what
types of things you enjoy crocheting, your favorite threads and/or yarns, etc.
Please, no personal information such as age, marital status, snail mail address,
etc., and limit your entry to 25-35 words.)
Post your crochet question on The Crochet 'N' More Message Board and you might see it here!
QUESTION:
crochet pattern -- Sue, 16:38:27 01/13/08 Sun
I'm looking for a crochet pattern..we use to call it "basketweave". The one I want, you start at the corner and increase until your size is desired and then you start decreasing back down to last corner. Thanks
ANSWER:
Here's a Corner to Corner Afghan pattern: http://web.archive.org/web/20041009192258/www.thesmartyarns.com/patterns/Nov00/cornertocorner.html
Hope this helps.
You'll go forth a little stronger
with a fresh supply of grace,
If each day you meet the Savior
in a secret, quiet place.
--- Adams
For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him
who sent Me. And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has
given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will
of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him, may have
eternal life; and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.
John 6:40
For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Luke 19:10
Jesus wept.
John 11:35
Let not your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also, and you know the way where I am going. Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?" Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also, from now on you know Him, and have seen Him.
John 14:1-7
"IF
YOU DOUBT THAT JESUS CARES,
REMEMBER HIS TEARS."
This quote is from Our Daily Bread - January, 2008 Issue.
"For where two or three have gathered together in My name, there I am in their midst." Matthew 18:20
Please click here and pray for those on our Prayer List
Who said
to Jesus,
"Lord, why can I not follow You right now? I will lay down my life for
You."?
Click
Here to Purchase
"The Complete Book of Bible Trivia"
Click here for more Bible Trivia
Only major page changes will be listed here.
FREE
PATTERNS
The following patterns
will be added to our Free Patterns soon.
The following
page is a list of uses of scrap yarns:
SCRAP
YARN IDEAS
The following link(s) have been added to our links pages.
None at this time.
(SUBSCRIBERS SEE THESE FIRST)
However, these patterns will be added to the Crochet 'N' More website after
the next issue is sent out.
|
|
Purchase your crochet supplies today! Use the promotion code below |
|
|
|
| Click here to see our growing collection of FREE PATTERNS | |
|
|
|
(A
different crochet stitch and/or tip featured in each issue...
to be added later to the Crochet Basics page)
EXTENDED
SINGLE CROCHET (ESC)
Stitch sent in by Cherylanne Newton
| ESC | EXTENDED SINGLE CROCHET | Insert hook in next chain, yarn over, draw a loop through (2 loops on hook), yarn over, draw through one loop on the hook (2 loops still on hook), yarn over, draw through both loops on the hook. |
How about this stitch- extended single crochet.
It is gauge equivalent to a half double crochet and yarn requirements are roughly
equal.
Insert hook into next stitch, yo and pull through a loop, yo pull through loop
just made to form a chain stitch, then yo and pull through both remaining loops
on hook to complete the stitch. it has a more textured look and is more lightweight
and slightly thinner than a half double crochet. it also has a "tighter"feeling
to the construction and i find it pills less and wears better using this stitch.
Cherylanne Newton
-----
ILLUSTRATED BASIC CROCHET INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE BEGINNER:
SINGLE CROCHET (click here for instructions)
HALF DOUBLE CROCHET (click here for instructions)
DOUBLE CROCHET (click here for instructions)
TRIPLE CROCHET (click here for instructions)
I keep a coffee mug
on my end table to hold my hooks,
pens and other items I may need while crocheting.
Scrap Yarn Ideas ...
43. I have been making cat
toys/bookmarks from scraps.
Make a chain about ten inches long then 3dc into each stitch until it is as
long as you want the curl to be.
Cats just love them or use as a bookmark. Shirley Manion
do you have number 44?
The following page is compilation
of uses for scrap yarns:
SCRAP YARN IDEAS
If you have a use that's not listed email me!
NOTE: Any comments left on the CNM website or sent via email may be posted here.
Leave your message in our guestbook... and it may appear in an issue of the CNM Newsletter !
I love the website, the information contained it it is great, and the patterns are lovely. I recently purchased a pattern here and was very pleased with it, also the speed with which it was sent to me by mail. Thank you so much for sharing with us! Keep up the good work.
Diane Eaton
I really like this website. I have crocheted many items (especially the 19" doll clothes for my granddaughter). She likes them and has asked me to make more . Keep up the good work.
Anita
Hi from 'down under' great site love the freebis
Anne
Whenever I need an easy to read pattern the first place I come is here. There are very clever ideas. I truly enjoy this site. Terri
Re: Crochet hook size
I have a pattern that
uses a 4.5mm crochet hook.
I would like to know what size US hook would I use. Thank you. Karen
<< reply >>
The US G/6 hook is 4.25 mm.
<< reply >>
Thanks so much for answering
my question.
I love your website and have had fun crocheting so many of the patterns. Karen
Love your site. Have made many patterns from here.Thank you so much....Jamie
I just found this page today while looking for crocheted snowflake patterns. This is a huge awesome site! I looked through a few of the newsletters also. So many avenues covered. Something for everyone. I am still looking for those snowflakes though. I want to make some to sew onto the front of a snowman quilt! Thanks for being here and may God bless you richly.
Lora
<< reply >>
You can find numerous snowflake patterns to choose from linked on this page: http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com/directory/snowflakes.php
Enter the new contest at Creative Enterprises !
Got something you'd like to sell ?
Looking for a particular item to buy ?
Put your ad here to be seen by approximately 5,600 crafters...
Click here to place an advertisement in our Classified Section.
~ ~ ~ YOUR AD COULD GO HERE! ~ ~ ~
Get your copy of Diane England's
"Cute Crochet for Kids" :
|
|
I have to tell you about this new book.
SweaterBabe.com's Fabulous & Flirty Crochet
I'm so happy to have it in my crochet library.
Katherine Lee has an eye for style and a definite knack for creating beautiful
crochet patterns.
I was really happy with the large colorful project photos.
There's something for everyone!
The aspect of Fabulous and Flirty Crochet that stood out to me was the section
on the yarns used in the patterns.
One page shows "actual size" photos of the yarns which makes it super
easy to substitute other yarns if you want to.
For those who stay strictly to the recommended yarn in a pattern Katherine has
included a yarn resource list.
The projects are very fashionable and perfect for gift giving... though I'm
sure you'll have to make something for yourself :o)
I can't wait to try the Flirty Skirt and the Ruffled Strap Tank.
Get your copy of Fabulous & Flirty Crochet today!
=====================================================
ANZ Publications is still offering The Medical and Dental Records Binder!
Give a gift a young mother will cherish forever!
Click here for more information.
AFF
If your home business isn't growing as
fast as you'd like, maybe you need to move to a new neighborhood! Come be a
part of our home and small business community at Creative Enterprises!
We bring new meaning to "networking" and resource sharing!
Sign up for your membership today at
http://www.creativethought.com
cont.
 |
My mother was away all weekend
at a business conference.
During a break, she decided to call home collect.
My six-year-old brother picked up the phone and heard a stranger's voice say,
"We have a Marcia on the line. Will you accept the charges?"
Frantic, he dropped the receiver and came charging outside screaming,
"Dad! They've got Mom! And they want money!"
Late one night, a burglar
broke into a house that he thought was empty.
He tiptoed through the living room but suddenly he froze in his tracks when
he heard a loud voice say,
"Jesus is watching you."
Silence returned to the house, so the burglar crept forward again.
"Jesus is watching you," the voice boomed again.
The burglar stopped dead
again. He was frightened.
Frantically, he looked all around. In a dark corner, he spotted a bird cage
and in the cage was a parrot.
He asked the parrot, "Was that you who said Jesus is watching me?"
"Yes", said the parrot.
The burglar breathed a sigh of relief, then he asked the parrot, "What's your name?"
"Clarence," said the bird.
"That's a dumb name for
a parrot," sneered the burglar.
"What idiot named you Clarence?"
The parrot said, "The same idiot who named the Rottweiller Jesus."
Proper attire is required
in the cafeteria at the University of Maine.
To enforce that rule, the management posted this notice:
"Shoes are required to eat in this cafeteria."
Next to it, a student added, "Socks can eat wherever they want."
As with many funerals, it was a cloudy, rainy day. The deceased was a little old lady who had devoted her entire married life to fussing at her poor husband. When the graveside service had no more than terminated, there was a tremendous burst of thunder accompanied by a distant lightning bolt. The little ol man looked at the pastor and calmly said,
"Well, she's there."
After buying her kids a pet hamster, after they PROMISED they would take care of it, Mom, as usual, ended up with the responsibility. One evening, exasperated, she asked them,
"How many times do you think that hamster would have died if I hadn't looked after it?"
After a moment, her youngest son replied quizzically, "Once?"
A friend of mine took her 4-year-old daughter to a baptismal service at her church. Later that night, her daughter took all of her dolls into the bathtub with her and held her own "baptism." As she dunked each doll under the water, she repeated,
"Now I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son and hold your nose."
Eileen's 2-year-old great-grandson was excited about having his birthday in a few days. When asked how old he would be, he always said he would be four and held up four fingers.
His mother tried to explain that he would be three, that three came after two but he wasn't convinced.
He told her that he had to be four because when he tried to hold up three fingers the fourth came up too.
ON HIS FIRST day on the job, a vacuum cleaner salesman was assigned to a backwoods area. He knocked on a door and was met by a farmer's wife, who asked him what he wanted. The salesman barged past her and said,
"I'm selling vacuum cleaners and I want to show you something."
He threw a bucket of dirt on the floor and said,
"If my cleaner doesn't pick up all of this, I'll eat the dirt."
The farmer's wife said, "You better start now, 'cause we ain't got no electricity."
THREE MEN were in the maternity
ward waiting room when a doctor came in and told one of them,
"Congratulations, you're the father of twins."
"What a coincidence," said the man. "I play for the Minnesota Twins."
A second doctor then came
in and told another man,
"Congratulations, you're the father of triplets."
"What a coincidence," said the man. "I work for 3M."
At that point, the third man fainted. When a doctor brought him to, he asked the man if he was all right.
"No, I'm not," the man said. "I work for 7 Up."
TWO BACHELOR farmers were talking, and their conversation eventually drifted to cooking.
"I got a cookbook once," said the first farmer. "But I could never do anything with it."
"Too much fancy cooking in it?" asked the second farmer.
"You said it. Every one of the recipes began the same way, 'Take a clean dish...'"
When a grandmother was in her late eighties, she decided to move to Israel. As part of the preparations, she went to see her doctor and get all her charts. The doctor asked her how she was doing, so she gave him a litany of complaints -- this hurts, that's stiff, I'm tired and slower, etc.
He responded, "Mrs. Siegel,
you have to expect things to start deteriorating.
After all, who wants to live to 100?"
The grandmother looked him straight in the eye and replied, "Anyone who's 99."
Taxiing down the tarmac, the jetliner abruptly stopped, turned around and returned to the gate. After an hour-long wait, it finally took off. A concerned passenger asked the flight attendant,
"What was the problem?"
"The pilot was bothered
by a noise he heard in the engine, " explained the Flight Attendant,
"and it took us a while to find a new pilot."
I had been doing Tech Support for Hewlett-Packard's DeskJet division for about a month when I had a customer call with a problem I just couldn't solve. She could not print yellow. All the other colors would print fine, which truly baffled me because the only true colors are cyan, magenta, and yellow. For instance, green is a combination of cyan and yellow, but green printed fine. Every color of the rainbow printed fine except for yellow. I had the customer change ink cartridges. I had the customer delete and reinstall the drivers. Nothing worked. I asked my coworkers for help; they offered no new ideas. After over two hours of troubleshooting, I was about to tell the customer to send the printer in to us for repair when she asked quietly, "Should I try printing on a piece of white paper instead of this yellow paper?"
The boss was complaining in our staff meeting the other day that he wasn't getting any respect. The next day, he brought a small sign that read:
"I'm the Boss!"
He then taped it to his office door.
Later that day when he returned from lunch, he found that someone had taped a note to the sign that said:
"Your wife called, she wants her sign back!"
Do you think a gallon of gas is expensive?
Just put things a bit in perspective.
Lipton Ice Tea 16 oz $1.19 .........$9. 52 per gallon
Ocean Spray 16 oz $1.25 $10.00 per gallon
Gatorade 20 oz $1.59 ..... $10.17 per gallon
Diet Snapple 16 oz $1.29 ....... $10.32 per gallon
Whiteout .7 oz $1.39 ....... $25.42 per gallon
Brake Fluid 12 oz $3.15 $33.60 per gallon
Scope 1.5 oz $0.99 .......$84.48 per gallon
Pepto Bismol 4 oz $3.85 ... $123.20 per gallon
Vick's Nyquil 6 oz $8.35 .... $178.13 per gallon
And this is the REAL KICKER...
Evian water 9 oz $1.49....... ...$21.19 per gallon?! $21.19 for WATER - and the buyers don't even know the source. (Did I mention that Evian spelled backwards is Naive?)
So, the next time you're at the pump, be glad your car doesn't run on water, Scope, or Whiteout, or heaven forbid Pepto Bismal or Nyquil!
CLICK
HERE TO GO TO THE
CROCHET 'N' MORE HOME PAGE
