Hi All I've recently joined GardenWeb & am looking forward to contributing. I'm going to be a grandmum soon & my daughter is bugging to me to stitch 2 cross stitch afghans - 1 of MLP and the other of care bears. Have been to all the shops where I live but can't get any panels (xstitch panels of up to 60 stitches). Is there anyone who is willing to share? Unfortunately, I don't have anything to swap. Fingers crossed I'll get some help here. Thank you.

AHHHHHHHHHH....memories! And what a journey it has been! I remember all the things mentioned here. Each time I thought I had another one...someone came up with it. I'm more "hippy" than hippie...LOL! Scarlett, I know the feeling! Those hipster jeans just don't fit right anymore! One thing I did learn to do back in the 60's and didn't see mentioned here were "Christmas Spiders". From the small glass Christmas balls and pipe cleaners, with sequin eyes. They looked like this...of course you've got to remember this one has been around for a good number of years now! LOL..ugly thing, isn't it? With new products and vintage jewerly, they now look more like this example. I made dozens of these every year..and sell most of them these days. We still use the Christmas ornaments like this. I'll never forget the year we decided to make this the family Christmas project! Neither will our 2 daughters! We all had such sore fingers. But, they treasure these ornaments now, and like myself use them every year. Let's not forget Santa and Mrs. Claus made from dish detergent bottles. With the dime store (then Ben Franklin) faces and hands, etc. They are still part of my Santa collection but I don't seem to have a picture of them anywhere in my on line albums. I still make a few of the old things...most often with a bit of a modern twist...using some of the easier to use products. The pasta angel is a good example of evolving pasta art. I do have problems finding the metal thumb tacks used for the candle in these. Someone mentioned the crochet covered clothes hangers. I'm just old fashioned I guess...I still do them. Along with little sachet bags to go with them. I love collecting the old crochet patterns and making stuff from them. These are the vintage pattern projects that I have recently finished. The shaded pansy thread colors are almost impossible to find these days. You can see some of my spiders in this basket...they are not Christmas Spiders. I call them my illusive, almost extinct pansy spiders! I wanted some really pretty silk pansy to put in this basket and couldn't find any...so I used the next best thing. LOL I think I should stop now! I don't think the "old" crafts will be completely lost...they will just evolve. Be Safe, Rach Here is a link that might be useful:

I notice the last comment on here is July of 2015...so has anyone found the Strawberry Shortcake crochet pattern?Willing to share with me.... the one with the plastic hands and feet? I made one some 30+ years ago and still have the doll, but I don't remember if I used a pattern or someone wrote it down for me, but would love to redo one again for grandaughter. Thank You in advance.

While I realize this probably isn't what you're looking for, thought I'd post this site in case you don't find the one you really want. There are 3 different popcorn patterns on this site ~ right hand column in alphabetical order. The popcorn ripple afghan looks very pretty. May just have to try it some day. Here is a link that might be useful: Popcorn Stitch Afghan Patterns