Still Collecting

Once a collector always a collector. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. As of right now my obsessions are:

• Large/unusual bird scarecrows or sculptures
• Chinese looking tins from the 50s and of course knitting needles and crochet hooks to go in them
• Crinoid Fossil "Indian Beads"
• Old pictures
• China with roses especially unusual pieces
• Whatever those stone encrusted things are- I have an official collection of them now that I found my third piece, a knob at Hobby Lobby.

 

  

 

 

100 Days of Doilies Day 34

Chinese mass-produced knit/crochet hybrid.

This disturbs me. It's all cute n stuff but the amount of work that goes into these things cannot be equal to what the people who make them are paid.

It starts off crochet, switches to knitting and then back to crochet. It's not machine made, it can't possibly be.

I am pretty sure this came from a shop in Gatlinburg, TN my mom worked at back in the 90's.