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Monday, June 08, 2009

FM June 8, 2009 and RIP Mrs Donley


I was Ida Mae Donley's "senior beacon" which meant I was supposed to sent her no guilt mail - you know, cards for holidays, that sort of thing. The relationship evolved slowly until I felt I really got to know Mrs Donley (I could never bring myself to call her by her first name - she was older than my grandmother and it just didn't seem polite.) Mrs Donley was quite the quilter, even well into her late 90s. She would quilt lap quilts and walker bags for the other folks in the nursing home. Even though we didn't do the same type of handwork, the fact we both did handwork bonded us.
Mrs Donley passed away last week, at the age of 101 years old. Later today I will be attending her funeral. Granny squares and motifs are the closest thing crocheters have to quilt squares, so I thought I'd honor Mrs Donley's memory by just having all free patterns for those items.


How to crochet a granny square
http://www.crochetcabana.com/tutorials/granny_square.htm


A quarter granny square:
http://promotions.drgnetwork.com/newsletters/talkingcrochet/pages/TCNL2806_patt.html

a half a granny square
http://www.geocities.com/riverglorious/Patterns/halfgrannysquare.html

Off kilter granny
http://sofar-sogood.blogspot.com/2007/05/off-kilter-granny.html

Lacy Spoke motif
http://www.crochetmemories.com/archive/misc10.html

This site uses symbol crochet, no instructions
http://www.mypicot.com/qumo.html

This motif creates a star
http://cache.lionbrand.com/cgi-bin/faq-search.cgi?store=/stores/eyarn&faqKey=342

sunrise granny square
http://crochet-mania.blogspot.com/2009/02/sunrise-granny-square.html

Stuffed circle square
http://www.squidoo.com/freestuffedcircleafghansquarecrochetpattern

Heart square
http://www.crochetnmore.com/heartafghansquare2.htm

Fish afghan square
http://www.crochetnmore.com/fishafghansquare.htm

Little flower square
http://www.geocities.com/alyssa5000/flowersq.html\

The usual disclaimers apply (I didn't get paid to post these sites).
FYI I will name the winner of the book on Tuesday, June 9, 2009. Sorry for the delay but I'm not in the mood to pick a winner right now.
_Enjoy_

1 comment:

River Glorious said...

I wouldn't be in the mood either, Blaze, dearie, I wouldn't either. I'm glad you two had such a good friendship. Thinking of you here. God's best.