While not anywhere near as valuable as the spinning wheel we bought the other week, today’s finds at the flea market were still quite fun (and cheap!).

Vintage-y Needlework

I’ve always loved the vintage knitting and crochet and spinning items when I come across them.  They remind me of the old Patons book I learned to knit from almost 30 years ago.  They also remind me of the long history of knitting before me.

Today’s haul from the flea market almost included a big bag of leftover crochet cotton, but the vendor at that table was ignoring me, so I figured I wasn’t meant to own that.  But two other vendors were quite pleasant and eager to sell.

I needed more steel crochet hooks like I need a hole in my head, but at $2, I figured I couldn’t go wrong.  I figure if $2 will buy me a photo op for the blog, it’s worth it!

The magazines were worth it at 50 cents each…usually the vintage magazines go for a dollar and don’t get down to 50 cents a piece until you buy a bunch.  I also figure if I get one good design idea out of any of these four booklets, it will be worth the $2 investment.  Plus, they didn’t smell musty or smokey.  Score!

Current Crochet

I did some additional work on the Rowan LDK crochet afghan.

I still have quite a bit more work to do on this project, but I have put aside four balls of the Rowan LDK in a light blue color that I will use for some kind of simple border for this afghan, so at least I’m looking at the end.