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shirret with fabric scraps and a special crochet hook


striped hot mat in shirretAmish crochet rugs

quilt color stripes

purple Shirret Stripey rug crochet pattern

navajo
handmade shirret hall runner. vivid red turquoise stripe patchwork

crochet scraps make a shirret patchwork quilt

contemporary shirret quilt rug
. . icecream rug chosen by Rachel Newman, magazine editor
.patchwork skirts . faux patchwork shirret
granny patchwork . .shirret quilt patternshirret quilt





You Can Crochet shirret
in Stripes >
~ that's easy !

or
lace squares together in
a Patchwork Quilt >>

Candy Stripes pattern pg73 >

stripes:
I made this Amish Binky >
to carry in my handbag.
It's behaviour therapy -
I bite my nails - and to
show my girlfriends. You
aren't a worrywart.

quilt squares: >>
are crocheted in rows.
Room size exuberant quilt
shirret rug by Louise
Bartholomew 1975,
Cheshire, is made from
her children's playclothes.

squares in stripes:
I shirret stripes.
I love to watch the colors
go together. Then I lay the
squares out on the painting
studio floor. I make the color
POP.
I shirret along the
sides with black and white
to make a Matisse Jazz >>
contemporary piece with
rhythm. I use the strong,
long-spun professional
rugmakers' cord in colors
so they'll last 200 years.

Stripey chairpad in wool >
pgs 74-75

round:
In 1972, the owner of
the Broome Street Bar
had a pattern-cutting
warehouse and gave us
cotton decorator fabric
scraps. I made this be-
tween illustration assign-
mentsin my rooftop loft
at 17 Park Ave. Sue
Schwartz, Crochet Guild of
America, loved it and said,
"Shirret will be very popular.
It has the look of a quilt."

rows:
Louise McCrady designed >
this after a Navaho weaving.
This is an easy Rows pattern
in cotton, with 1 row of
border around.

quilt made of squares of
stripes:
'My High School Skirts'
1999. cotton. 3'
style: prep West Hartford
weejun, pink flower pappa-
galo & brogues. Exhibited
in traveling fiberarts show
in 25 museums in Texas.
If the materials used had
been oil paints, this would
be a 1990's geometric
abstraction. Without a bor-
der, it was contemporary
- the image it made was a
question. It had potential
to be many things. An art-
work is hypothetical - it's
an experiment that doesn't
have an answer. But this
has a border, so it's a quilt.

rows: 8' long hall runner of polyester scraps

quilt: two long strips laced together.

rows: a quilt look-alike made as one piece with a border.

quilt: 1988 Granny Square look-alike hall runner made
in squares. The design was charted out on graph paper.
Shown at the Eastern States Springfield, MA

kit >

Easy ~ fun ~ crochet ~ Shirret

It
rhymes with hur RAY

 

 

 

 

 

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