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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Well been crocheting my heart away!
Not posting my new items in my shop yet.
Having our first craft show in September *yay* super excited!!!
Locals make sure you come and check us out at the Applefest in Sidney, Ohio
September 10th through the 12th.
http://www.shelbyapplefest.com/
Having our first craft show in September *yay* super excited!!!
Locals make sure you come and check us out at the Applefest in Sidney, Ohio
September 10th through the 12th.
http://www.shelbyapplefest.com/
Saturday, June 12, 2010
NEW Listing, "Get Your NERD On!"
Came up with this rockin' yet nerdy can cozy today.
Originally I was going to do this one in black tan and and red and put DAD on it for Father's Day but kind of late to be just selling that.
So without further ado . . .
Friday, June 11, 2010
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
She's still working away ... at 100
Mary Friese turns 100 on Saturday.
Mary Friese is busy crocheting a pink blanket for her 11th great-great-grandchild, who's expected to arrive around Christmas.
"We're not sure if it'll be a boy or a girl so after I complete this one I'll start on a blue one," said Friese, Chambersburg, who will celebrate her 100th birthday Saturday.
Blind for about 15 years, Friese is able to crochet beautiful items through touch alone. She has crocheted blankets for all her great-grand- and great-great-grandchildren and collared capes for each of her granddaughters.
Her home is filled with many of her hand-crocheted pillows and afghans, the kinds of things which she's also made for friends. She listens to tapes mailed to her from the Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped in Pittsburgh.
A member of Mongul United Brethren Church in Shippensburg, she was a member of Falling Spring Chapter AARP and Falling Spring Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Auxiliary, where she made lap robes for the residents. Friese continues to attend Golden Age Club meetings and enjoys dining out.
The almost-centenarian grew up with two brothers and two sisters on a Letterkenny Township farm. She attended a one-room school with 50 to 60 students in grades one through eight, and just one teacher.
Married to Paul Friese at age 21, she worked with him on a farm during the Great Depression.
"I worked on the farm barefooted because we couldn't afford shoes for me; then the owner of the farm gave me his old shoes to wear," she said. "We didn't have enough money to buy the registration for our car so it sat in the garage."
Instead of a tractor, they used horses on the farm, she washed clothes by hand with a washboard and got water by pumping it from a well into a bucket. They had kerosene lights, used an outhouse and she never learned to drive a car.
"I remember my father telling my husband and me, 'if you work together, you'll get along,' and he was right," she said.
"I didn't expect to live to 100," said Friese who never smoked or drank liquor.
Friese has two children, Betty Kelso and Henry Friese, both of Shippensburg; nine grandchildren; 20-plus great-grandchildren; and 10 great-great-grandchildren -- with one on the way.
Mary Friese is busy crocheting a pink blanket for her 11th great-great-grandchild, who's expected to arrive around Christmas.
"We're not sure if it'll be a boy or a girl so after I complete this one I'll start on a blue one," said Friese, Chambersburg, who will celebrate her 100th birthday Saturday.
Blind for about 15 years, Friese is able to crochet beautiful items through touch alone. She has crocheted blankets for all her great-grand- and great-great-grandchildren and collared capes for each of her granddaughters.
Her home is filled with many of her hand-crocheted pillows and afghans, the kinds of things which she's also made for friends. She listens to tapes mailed to her from the Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped in Pittsburgh.
A member of Mongul United Brethren Church in Shippensburg, she was a member of Falling Spring Chapter AARP and Falling Spring Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Auxiliary, where she made lap robes for the residents. Friese continues to attend Golden Age Club meetings and enjoys dining out.
The almost-centenarian grew up with two brothers and two sisters on a Letterkenny Township farm. She attended a one-room school with 50 to 60 students in grades one through eight, and just one teacher.
Married to Paul Friese at age 21, she worked with him on a farm during the Great Depression.
"I worked on the farm barefooted because we couldn't afford shoes for me; then the owner of the farm gave me his old shoes to wear," she said. "We didn't have enough money to buy the registration for our car so it sat in the garage."
Instead of a tractor, they used horses on the farm, she washed clothes by hand with a washboard and got water by pumping it from a well into a bucket. They had kerosene lights, used an outhouse and she never learned to drive a car.
"I remember my father telling my husband and me, 'if you work together, you'll get along,' and he was right," she said.
"I didn't expect to live to 100," said Friese who never smoked or drank liquor.
Friese has two children, Betty Kelso and Henry Friese, both of Shippensburg; nine grandchildren; 20-plus great-grandchildren; and 10 great-great-grandchildren -- with one on the way.
World Record for Most People Crocheting
Over 400 Mets fans set Guinness World Record for most people crocheting in the same place
More than 400 Mets fans set the Guinness World Record for most people crocheting simultaneously at Citi Field Saturday.Most crafters - 427 in all - worked on a project in Mets-appropriate orange or blue yarn, establishing the record for most people crocheting in the same place for 15 minutes.
Crochet diva Lily Chin showed up ready to set the record in a homemade Mets uniform that she had knit herself, complete with a crocheted cap and even a mitt made out of yarn.
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