CROCHET 'N' MORE
NEWSLETTER
Volume V, Issue NO. 10
May 30, 2002

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<< GOD BLESS YOU >>

FEATURES IN THIS ISSUE:

GENERAL NEWS
AWARDS
VOTE FOR US
WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT
BIBLE TRIVIA
PAGES UPDATED
NEW LINKS
MEMBER PATTERNS
CROCHET STITCH, TECHNIQUE or TIP
VIEWER FEEDBACK
CONTEST/GIVE-AWAY INFORMATION
CLASSIFIED SECTION
HUMOR

GENERAL NEWS

Dear Subscriber:

I've spent quite a bit of time updating pages since our last issue. We have a new format for the Crochet Tips and I have redone the Pen Pal List . I sent out a message about the update of the Pen Pal List but omitted one letter of the url. If you are on this list and haven't been able to access the page or have a question about your listing please drop me a line and I will send you the correct url. I'm in the process of deleting all of the members whose addresses bounced back. If the member's mailbox was full I left them on the list.

Lisa & Tim

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AWARDS

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WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT

He who loves God must love his brother also.

1 John 4:21

And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

Deuteronomy 6:5

Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, always.

Deuteronomy 11:1

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Matthew 5:44

Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

Judas 1:21

"LOVE IS GOD'S WILL IN ACTION."

This quote is from Our Daily Bread - May, 2002 Issue.

NOTE: The publishers of Our Daily Bread wrote me that they
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BIBLE TRIVIA

WHAT DOES SOLOMON SAY HAPPENS TO HUMANS AS WELL AS ANIMALS?

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PAGES UPDATED

(I've decided not to list every change to my pages since it has become so time consuming.
Please note that information in this issue may be added
to the website when the next issue is sent out)

FREE PATTERNS

The following patterns will be added to our Free Patterns soon.

LACY DOILY

9-1/2" DOLL DRESS
I would like to thank
Joan Zugelder for
this pattern idea.

PEN PAL LIST
This list has been redesigned to make it easier for the members.
Please email me if you would like to join.

TIPS
This page has been updated with tips from past issues of the CNM Newsletter.

NEW LINKS

The following link(s) have been added to our links pages.

CROCHET LADY

MEMBER PATTERNS

(SUBSCRIBERS SEE THESE FIRST)
However, these patterns will be added to Crochet 'N' More's website
after the next issue is sent out.

Click here to see our growing collection of FREE PATTERNS

CROCHET STITCH, TECHNIQUE or TIP

(A different crochet stitch and/or tip featured in each issue...
to be added later to the Crochet Basics page)

If you know of any stitch I have omitted from our basics pages please drop me a line.

CHANGING & CARRYING COLORS

This technique courtesy of Linda

Changing colors in the center of an afghan is the same as changing them at
the end of a row or skein. If your afghan requires numerous color changes though you
might want to carry the old color through by crocheting over it until you
need to pick it back up again.

If the color change is only for a few stitches I would work the required
stitches in that color, then drop the yarn to the back of the work if I
needed it again. If you don't need that color again then work a regular
color change, cut the old color yarn and weave in your ends.

Here's how I do a color change when I carry the old color through:

HOW TO ALTERNATE TWO COLORS:

COLOR A
COLOR B

Finish the required stitches for Color A within one step of finishing the
last stitch. Drop Color A and yarn over with Color B to finish that stitch.
Now work the required stitches for Color B (while you are working or
crocheting over Color A as you go). When you need to change back to
Color A, you work the last stitch of Color B within one step of finishing it
and drop Color B. Yarn over with Color A and work as before.

This might not appear to be smooth going at first but after a couple of
color changes you will get the hang of it.

This page is helpful on how to change colors or to add on a new skein in the
same color. It also has tips on how to carry old colors through that you
pick back up when the pattern says to:
http://crochet.about.com/hobbies/crochet/library/weekly/aa072697.htm

This page explains how to work with multiple colors when doing chart crochet:
http://www.knittedthreads.com/tips/croq/tipcroq.htm
most charts are done using single crochet stitches.

Here are a couple of very informative page also:
http://www.crochetcabana.com/learning_to_crochet6.htm
http://iweb.tntech.edu/cventura/rightstitches.html

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ILLUSTRATED BASIC CROCHET INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE BEGINNER:

HOW TO DO A STARTING CHAIN

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)

CROCHET TIP:

I have another tip for holding stitches when temporarily putting my work down. I keep a safety pin handy. When I leave the work, I pull out the loop a bit. Then I pin one side of the loop, if the work should get pulled by accident (or small child) the pin will hold the thread or yarn from unraveling.

Nicole S

WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF STITCHES TO FEATURE!
If you have a stitch or tip you'd like to see here drop us a line and include "STITCH/TIP" as the subject.
Please include your name and/or state of residence if you'd like to be recognized for your submission.

VIEWER FEEDBACK

NOTE: Any comments left on the CNM website or sent via email may be posted here.

I just read my 5-15-2002 Newsletter.......
Right down to the jokes......I don't know how you keep topping whatever comes
the month before, but you sure do. What a wonderful thing to look forward to
twice a month.....Thank You from the bottom of my heart. Norma Cooper

I just want to say thank you. your site is sooo refreshing. I was raised in a christian home, my father is an assemblies of God minister and has done mission work in India, but i still back-slid. I have been praying for God to help me get rid of all the bad things in my life. I realized one day that all of my old friends hadn't been around in awhile and that i had no desire to see any of them. Then God started to replace them with christians. It seemed that everyone i was meeting is a christian. I was on the web one day and started to search for a crochet site. I stumbled upon yours and low and behold there is Gods word on a crochet site!! I believe his next step would have been to hit me over the head with a bat!!!! I jsut wanted to share some of my comming back to Christ with you. Your site is everything I need. It has scripture and crochet. My favorites.
Sorry to take up so much tiome, but i wanted to share with you.
thank-You SOSOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much, keep up the good work.
jenn jester

Hi: I finally finished the Bible cover...I used 2 different colored
strands of yarns to make it, instead of only one strands. It came out
nice thatn I thought it would. I had to improvise most of the way, and
kept my Bible handy for measurements. I am quite pleased and am now in
the process of putting a design on the front...I may have to toss it if
it doesn't look like I want ti too. Thanks for all your help. And may
make another one in the near future once again... GBU CiTa

To whom it may concern: I think that this web is the greatest. Not only does it give such explicite directions but I also like the Bible verses and trivia. If I wasn't a believer already, I would certainly feel free to become one with the information on this site. Thank you so much. I have been checking in with this site for a few years, but I wanted to express my thanks. Sincerely, Lorraine Jones, El Cajon, CA

I would just like to say, YES!, Jesus is my Savior and has been since I was 9 years old. I'm 49 now. I think it's wonderful that you have put that most important question on your web site, and may many who look at your sight be moved by this question to accepting Him as Lord and Savior.

From one Christian to another, God bless you for your effort.

Brenda Havard

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HUMOR

A man called his mother in Florida. "Mom, how are you?"
"Not too good," said the mother. "I've been very weak."
The son said, "Why are you so weak?"
She said, "Because I haven't eaten in 38 days."
The man said, "That's terrible. Why haven't you eaten in 38 days?"
The mother answers, "Because I didn't want my mouth to be filled with food
if you should call."

On the first day of Spring Training, a baseball scout brings a horse with
him to add to the starting lineup.

The coach asks, "Why on earth did you bring that horse here for?"

The scout replies, "Wait until you see him bat."

All the players are laughing, until the horse comes to bat.

At this point, the horse grabs the bat and everyone quiets down.

They stare at the horse.

The pitcher, just shrugs his shoulders, and throws the ball toward home
plate, when astonishingly the horse hits the ball deep into the outfield.

The horse just stands there and does not move.

The manager then yells at the baseball scout to tell the horse to run to
first base.

The scout looks back at the manager and yells back, "If he could run, he'd
be in the Kentucky Derby!"

A lion woke up one morning feeling really rowdy and mean.
He went out and cornered a small monkey and roared,
"Who is mightiest of all jungle animals?"

The trembling monkey says, "You are, mighty lion!

Later, the lion confronts a ox and fiercely bellows,
"Who is the mightiest of all jungle animals?"

The terrified ox stammers, "Oh great lion, you are the mightiest animal in the jungle!"

On a roll now, the lion swaggers up to an elephant and roars,
"Who is mightiest of all jungle animals?"

Fast as lightning, the elephant snatches up the lion with his trunk, slams him against
a tree half a dozen times leaving the lion feeling like it'd been run over by a safari wagon.
The elephant then stomps on the lion till it looks like a corn tortilla and ambles away.

The lion lets out a moan of pain, lifts his head weakly and hollers after the elephant,
"Just because you don't know the answer, you don't have to get so upset about it!"

A woman walks into a veterinarian's waiting room dragging a wet rabbit on a leash.
The rabbit obviously does not want to be there.

"Sit, Fluffy!" she says. Fluffy glares at her, and sopping wet,
jumps up on another customer's lap, getting water all over him.

"I said sit. Now there's a good Fluffy," says the woman, slightly embarrassed.

Fluffy, wet already, squats in the middle of the room and urinates.
The woman, mortally embarrassed, shouts, - "Fluffy, will you be good?!"

Fluffy then starts a fight with a Doberman and pursues it out of the office.
As the woman leaves to go after it, she turns to the rest of the flabbergasted customers and says:

"Please pardon me... I just washed my hare, and can't do a thing with it!"

Two opposing county chairman were sharing a rare moment together.

The Democratic chairman said, "I never pass up a chance to promote the
party. For example, whenever I take a cab, I give the driver a sizable tip
and say, 'Vote Democratic.'"

His opponent said, "I have a better scheme, and it doesn't cost me a nickel.
I don't give any tip at all. And when I leave, I also say, 'Vote
Democratic.'"

Reaching the end of a job interview, the human resources person asked a
young engineer fresh out of MIT what kind of a salary he was looking for.

"In the neighborhood of $140,000 a year, depending on the benefits package."

"Well, what would you say to a package of 5-weeks vacation, 14 paid
holidays, full medical and dental, company matching retirement fund to 50%
of salary, and a company car leased every 2 years...say, a red Corvette?"

"Wow! Are you kidding?"

"Yeah, but you started it."

Early one evening a gentleman scuttled out to his garage and pulled the lawn
furniture out onto the driveway. Shortly after followed the lawnmower, a
few gardening tools and a bicycle.

A curious neighbor wandered over and asked if he was going to have a garage
sale.

"No," replied the gentleman, "my son just bought his first car and right now
he's getting ready for a big date."

"So what's with all the stuff?" asked the neighbor.

"Well, after years of moving tricycles, toys and sports equipment out of the
way every time I came home from work, I wanted to make sure the driveway was
ready for him."

A man goes to the doctor and tells him that he hasn't been feeling well.

The doctor examines him, leaves the room and comes back with three different
bottles of pills.

The doctor says, "Take the green pill with a big glass of water when you get
up. Take the blue pill with a big glass of water after lunch. Then just
before going to bed, take the red pill with another big glass of water."

Startled to be put on so much medicine the man stammers, "Wow doc, exactly
what's my problem?"

The doctor says, "You're not drinking enough water."

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