This Week’s Pattern story

[DATELINE: MINNEAPOLIS] In response to the surprising rise in juvenile delinquency among young girls, first offenders in one small, unnamed suburb of Minneapolis are being held for 4 hours every day, after school, in the empty monkey house of the local zoo. The girls are given appropriate items to help them practice for their future […]

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The Hundred Dresses: Day 67

This is a contemporary pattern, simplicity 2180. (You may keep in mind my rant about the difficulty I had trying to buy it as a downloadable pattern.) I did ultimately buy the pattern (in a routine store) as well as make it, like so: It’s material I bought about ten lawns of (at $1/yard) down […]

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Incredibly Optimistic

I know crochet goes ‘faster’ than knitting, but the title of this booklet strikes me as exceptionally optimistic. There’s no way that I could get that on my table tomorrow. (It normally takes a good 24 hours to clear off all the stuff that’s there already, anyway.) And, of course, when I think “FUTURE” what […]

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