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lookfar November 4 2023, 13:56:59 UTC
OMG that Persian Tiles pattern is as if I was having a beautiful dream while tripping on acid and I knew from the pattern that all will be well, and all will be well, and all manner of things will be well.

That kind of dream.

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egg_shell November 4 2023, 15:10:38 UTC
It is a great pattern! So many intricacies. I loved how putting different colors in for the rounds you got so many effects.

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one_raido November 4 2023, 14:08:16 UTC
I tried making a blanket with a Persian tile motif. I didn't get very far. That's a beautiful blanket.

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egg_shell November 4 2023, 15:12:27 UTC
It was a big undertaking! I was very tired of it by the time I was putting the border on. Then I found out it wasn't quite big enough for our queen bed and I had to put border after border row on!

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one_raido November 4 2023, 15:34:12 UTC

Ah yes, the border is a great way to make a blanket bigger.

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geminiwench November 4 2023, 15:58:25 UTC
I always love people talking about how their parents or grandparents remember "horse and buggy" or "horse and wagon" or "stagecoach" times.... and I am like, "Of course you do, that was still going on in the 1980s when I was growing up!" because I grew up in a family of horses, wagons, buggies, and stagecoaches. We used to run an kind of old west town/tourist spot... so it was kind of like growing up in an old west town!

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egg_shell November 4 2023, 16:20:57 UTC

Cool! So you got many eras to grow up in.

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dadi November 4 2023, 18:45:49 UTC
That blanket is stunning!

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egg_shell November 4 2023, 18:49:19 UTC

Thanks. It was neat all the different looks the octagons had just with different colors of yarn used. I was impressed by the pattern.

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seaivy November 4 2023, 23:56:36 UTC
WOW!
complex and makes you want to search it
Go You!

I remember in the '40s
Farmer next door had big heavy horses
used the to pull haying equipment

they cut with a tractor
but used the horses for raking
or kicking if it had rained
then more raking into rows
then it had to be "tedded" into small stacks
by hand!
then the tedded would be pitched on to a truck - by hand again
hay would be taken to the barn
put in the mow - by hand again

doing hay was labor intensive
when they worked on our field my mother would have cold water and ice tea in the ice box
(yes no electric frig - this was rural during WW2)

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egg_shell November 5 2023, 01:12:33 UTC
You have some wonderful memories there! Country living.

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