CAN YOU STAND ANOTHER CONTEST?

May 21, 2009 by jd wolfe

This time, I’ve got a batch of booklets for you. I’ve been clearing out magazines and leaflets from my stash. I have found duplicates aplenty! So, I’m willing to part with them.

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This first batch includes 7 digest sized booklets (like the one pictured above). Six are Annie’s Pattern Club (the one above is one of the magazines in this batch) magazines and one is Creative Hands ‘Ripple Afghan’ booklet. These are not all crochet patterns, but there is plenty of crochet in them. Also, if you knit, there are a few knitting patterns included.

So, what do you have to do to win these? Well, I can’t make it too easy.

First, when you enter by posting a comment here, you also need to email me privately with your snail mail address. I’ve had too much trouble tracking down winners in the past. I’d prefer to be able to just mail the prize to the winner. Easier for you, too. You may well get a surprise in the mail, then, if you aren’t a regular reader. So, that’s rule #1 – ENTER A COMMENT AND EMAIL YOUR SNAIL MAIL ADDRESS AND NAME TO ME WITH YOUR COMMENT. ([email protected])

Second, to actually enter the contest, you need to list a crochet technique that has not previously been mentioned by an earlier entrant. No duplicates. So, you could mention sc, dc, hdc, camel crochet, catherine’s wheel, etc. There are plenty of crochet stitches, motifs, patterns, and terms. Including a link to a picture of the entry may well give you an edge. Let’s see how many we can list.

I’ll select the winner from amidst the entries. Last contest had well over 100 entries. One entry per email address please!

Contest opens today (May 21) and will end on Monday, June 15. Winner will be announced shortly after the end of the contest. I look forward to seeing how many different entries we can come up with!

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Celebrate Inventor’s Day by Learning about Inventors

Several countries have a day set aside to honor and recognize their inventors, but Nov. 9 is a special one that’s known as Tag der Erfinder in German. It’s celebrated in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and it falls on Nov. 9 because that’s the birthday of Hedy Lamarr.

Hedy Lamarr is widely known as an actress but there’s a lot more to her story. You can get a little of it geared to little kids in the Little People, Big Dreams book Hedy Lamarr (32 pages, hardcover, published 2023 by Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, suggested retail price $15.99).

The book explores her birth in Austria and how she spent time when she was young coming up with inventions. She became an actress, married an arms dealer, made her escape to America and became an actress again.

But she also helped develop a frequency-hopping signal device for airplanes that was used by the Americans and their allies during World War II. That technology became the basis for wireless technology such as wifi and GPS.

While Inventor’s Day is a great time to learn about Hedy Lamarr, you can take this opportunity to check out books and do little studies on lots of different inventors. If there’s an inventor or an invention your child is particularly interested in, that’s a great place to start. It’s fun to think about all the things we use every day that didn’t always exist; someone had to invent them!

For a start here at Craft Gossip you can learn more about Garrett Morgan, who invented traffic lights; Maria Oroso, who developed a clay oven that could cook food without electricity; and more female inventors and scientists.

And for more general inventors’ fun, check out this inventors word search from Fun Findery (and another from Let’s Do Puzzles) or take a quiz on inventors and their inventions from Flanders Family Home Life.