Hi to Everyone

Hi all,my name is Peggy Failing I'm from the mountains of northeastern penna.From a little country town of Tunkhannock.My BD is 8/6/1950 married 35yrs,in on Dec 23rd.One son 33yrs.who just moved to Tampa Bay Florida.

I love my crocheting and am working on a reversable baby afghan at the moment.With a wheel afghan in progress.I collect patterns and books,never have enough patterns.I crochet in yarn and thread.I love to make dolls ,toys,things I can finish in a week,otherwise I might get bored.I also love to bake and cook,and read scary books,like serial killers,and the unexplained and unusual.I love all the CSI shows and anything on Forsenics.

At present I'm looking for easy socks to make,maybe a tube sock.I work in a warehouse packing shoes,and it gets very cold in there in the winter,longjohns,and gloves are a must.Also need a pattern for fingerless gloves.Also looking for a very old pattern,from about 1983,was in a craft book not solely crochet.It is of a chicken breadbasket with the wings that lift up .It is fit over a basket and you get the rolls or cookies through the wings.I loved this pattern but lost the book over the years.Can anyone help me.I believe the book might have been a Womans Circle or a Womans Household.Fall book.There is a sewn pattern of a turkey on the opposite page from the chicken pattern.

Love the outdoors,and country life,Have made crochet thread Family Heriloom names for Nascar driver Jeremey Mayfield,Emeril Lagasse,the chef,and ex-President Clinton.I made them as gifts.I make the names and design my own filet animals or birds or what ever the person likes on each side of the name.Have made many of these as wedding gifts.

Would welcome anyone to e-mail me.I work fulltime ,as does my hubby who works as a plumbing manager in a local hardware store.I'm 4'10" and hubby is 6'6" tall our son is 6'3".and single so I have no grandchildren yet but I pray for them soon.

Both son and hubby were born with cleftlips and cleft palates,and both are deaf in the left ears.It is called the "Pit Syndrome"

Thanks for letting me join your club,Hugs from Peggy in Pa.

Hi Peggy,

You do a LOT of crocheting and make me feel like a slacker, LOL.

Sorry I can't help on the chicken bread basket.

Have you checked the patterns here for socks and fingerless gloves? Or Crochet Pattern Central, http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com/directory.php , for free patterns?

Cheers,

Pauline

Hi Pauline,thank-you for the infomatiom,I will check out the patterns on this site and the Pattern Central you gave to me.As soon as I get home from work tonight.Yes I do love my crocheting,it's my only outlet after a long day at work in the warehouse.Helps to relax me.and I love making things for other people.Plus it's my way of leaving alittle of me behind ,and people can remember me through my crocheting,when I leave this earth and return home.

Glad to have met you Pauline,I'm not much of a computer person,except to my crochet clubs.Guess I'm as computer dumb as they come.Stll haven't figured how to download a picture from a scanner and send it to someone and I have had this bugger for about 7 yrs,LOL.Hugs your friend Peggy in Pa.

From one newbie, to another: Welcome!

I live in the Tampa area of FL, small world. I love your ideas on leaving your crochet behind as a remembrance once you've gone.

Hi yKelly1,Glad to meet you.That's great you live in Tampa,Do you know where the Tampa Gold Club is?I know it might not be a place you go to,as my son said even though he works there he would never take me there,as it's not a place where you take your mother for dinner,LOLand he knows I'm a wee bit old fashion,about how women should dress.I wish I could say it wouldn't bother me but I know it probley would.Just the way I was brought up I guess.Tell me about Tampa.I miss my son,since he is the only child we have,Florida is sure along way from the mountains of Penna.

Yes the way I look at is the more things I crochet the more I will be remembered.My gifts will leave good memories of me,to be remembered by.

Thanks for your e-mail my friend,Hugs your friend Peggy in Pa.

Hi Peggy. Glad to meet you. I have to admire your ability to focus on projects. I have a husband, 3 teen daughters and a fulltime job. I sneak crochet in when I can. I like to make things for my family and friends as well...I want to be remembered long after I'm gone. I so wanted to get together with others that like to knit and crochet that I mentioned it to a few friends at work and the next thing I knew I had 18 people interested. I never knew that many people at work enjoyed it. I am hoping for a project of some type like prayer shawls or blankets and sweaters for the needy. With that many crocheting and knitting, we could actually get a bunch made.

Hi Crochetmama,I knew another Crochetmama from another crochet club,I think it was The OddBalls,anyway.Yes I too like to make things for those in need.I have made several lapghans for those in wheelchairs,There is a pattern from Annies where you make the lapghan and there is a pattern for a bag to hang on the wheelchair to match the lapghans,After seeing the booklet I started to design my own,.The pattern I'm working on now for the reversable babyblanket ,I decided would make great lapgans too.done in 4ply yarn,and a little bigger hook.

See hon I have no little ones at home,and no grandbabies,just my hubby and my 2 cats and 1 dog,which we both baby them all.I even make up a dog coup outside for stray cats to sleep in,much to my hubby's dismay.But I love animals.

I have gathered a mountain of balnkets for the Indian Resorvation in South Dakota,The Lakota tribe,I have written several times for an address to send them to,I will keep trying as I know they could be using them now.

As I look at it hon,we are only passing through this world and we are put here to help others not for personal gain,I thank God everyday for what he has given me,as it is so much more than my Mother ever had.I'm not smart or one of the Beautiful people,or wealthy,but God gave me the ability to crochet and the will to help who ever I can.

E-mail me where you want.Your friend peggy in Pa.

Peggy, you sound like one of the "real people" of this earth and I'm glad you joined us. Your heart is pure. I like that.