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Why Knot?

October 23, 2018 Mary Kelly Craptastic Crafts and Hobbies 17 comments

Macrame Why Knot Morris 1976 Time to get groovy with some macrame wall hangings and other crafty stuff. My personal favorite is the lampshade, however the wine “rack” comes in at a close second. Just about everyone I knew back

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Groovy Crafts for the Fulfilled Woman

May 22, 2017 Mary Kelly Craptastic Crafts and Hobbies 12 comments

Crafts for Fun and Profit Van Zandt 1972 This series is called Women Alive. We already posted the book that helps you figure out your man. After you figure out your man, you can sit down and make some lovely

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Decorate Your Home with Macrame!

February 6, 2017 Mary Kelly Craptastic Crafts and Hobbies 14 comments

Macrame Open House Anderson 1979 My new collection responsibilities include crafting, so naturally I am running into tons of titles featuring some of this lovely crap, I mean stuff. Macrame books have been a staple at ALB and this book

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Knot Again!

December 8, 2016 Mary Kelly Craptastic Crafts and Hobbies 10 comments

Macrame Alfers 1971 We haven’t had a macrame book show up in a while here at the ALB home offices. When this showed up, I grabbed it. Macrame was such a thing in the late 60s and early 70s. I

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Groovy Teen Crap, I mean Crafts

March 19, 2013 Mary Kelly Craptastic Crafts and Hobbies, Talkin 'Bout My Generation 10 comments

Great and Groovy Things to Make Morris 1972 If this is still floating around someone’s teen section, I will probably have to kill myself. Teens in 1972 are today’s GRANDPARENTS. Of course, this craptastic book has macrame and tie dye!

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The Craft that Haunts Every Library: Macrame!

February 12, 2013 Mary Kelly Craptastic Crafts and Hobbies 17 comments

Macrame: A Golden Hands Pattern Book Popplewell (ed.) 1974 Just when Holly and I think we have seen every macrame book out there, yet another will turn up. Of course I couldn’t resist especially with that rockin’ vest on the

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Macrame Forever!

July 17, 2012 Holly Looking Good 20 comments

Practical Macrame Andes 1971 Submitter: I work in a public library, and I have to say that I’d never heard of macrame prior to retrieving this book for a patron. I asked my mother, who graduated from college in the late

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More Macrame!

March 15, 2011 Holly Craptastic Crafts and Hobbies 12 comments

Plant Hangers:  Ideas and Techniques Meilach 1977 Submitter: Yes, really.  I just pulled this a few minutes ago from a satelite library that is in my school.  Much like the library that I inherited, it hasn’t been weeded in 38

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