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 Post subject: Re: The Art of Crochet
PostPosted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:04 pm 
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Just out of interest I looked on ebay to see if there were any copies for sale on there. There are a lot of issues 1 and 2, including an issue 1 which has 5 bids on it, the leader at the moment being £9.05!

I noticed that, also the guy selling Issue 2 for BIN £12 + 2.50 P&p

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 Post subject: Re: The Art of Crochet
PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 12:31 am 
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Has anybody tried the squares yet. I started the red square and think I've got the hang of those wretched turning chains. I had a bit of a practice on some spare wool on that second square with the shells. I'm going to look out for that Reader's digest book. I think I had a copy once but it's either in the loft in a box somewhere which means it will never be seen again!! Or given away years ago. It was a very thick book if I remember rightly. I bought that Happy Hooker crochet book but it confused me with the American names for stitches. Double crochet is single crochet in the US. And I don't need any more confusion!!


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 Post subject: Re: The Art of Crochet
PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 7:44 pm 
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Doe anyone know what the yarn is? eg if acrylic or actual wool?

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 Post subject: Re: The Art of Crochet
PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 9:03 pm 
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I've got the first and the second one :D When's the 3rd one out :twisted:

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 Post subject: Re: The Art of Crochet
PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:31 pm 
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Alison h wrote:
Doe anyone know what the yarn is? eg if acrylic or actual wool?


It's 100% acrylic Alison - 25g dark red and 16g of a sort of khaki. Does that make it sound exciting enough? :lol:

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 Post subject: Re: The Art of Crochet
PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 11:49 pm 
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I've got the first and the second one :D When's the 3rd one out :twisted:


I think it should be out this week sometime. By Friday anyway. But not sure. I'm going to get the first ten or so and then I hope I will have all the basic stitches.


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 Post subject: Re: The Art of Crochet
PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 2:59 pm 
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Today the postman delivered issue 1 to my door :clap: Thank you Gail!! :hug:
I started right away and already have used up all the "vanilla" yarn in double crochet. I do know the most basic stitches already, but always had a problem with counting them at crochet. :roll: Must say it all has become clearer using this first issue.

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 Post subject: Re: The Art of Crochet
PostPosted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 1:17 pm 
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I've found the magazine really helpful too, I like the photos-so much easier for me to understand than drawn diagrams! I'm going to pick and choose which ones I get though, £3.99 a week is a tad expensive in my eyes for a magazine, when there are heaps of excellent resources on line- I'm thinking of this lovely forum and Lucy of Attic 24 particularly! :smile:


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 Post subject: Re: The Art of Crochet
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I think it's quite good too. And clear instructions. And I think it's only going to be £2.99. It's still not cheap but I'm going to get it for the time being because I think it's very useful for beginners.


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 Post subject: Re: The Art of Crochet
PostPosted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 1:14 pm 
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Well my SIL was really pleased with the copies I sent her and I wanted to buy some more of them for her b'day but as I'm pretty sure WHSmiths won't stock these after issue 4 I will now rethink my plan especially seeing it takes 28 days to cancel.


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