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Hello crochet-loving friends!

I am once again writing with an apology about the appearance of this web site. I just installed a new Wordpress plugin that will hopefully help me to make the site more "international-friendly". (For those who don't know, wordpress is blog software, in case you were wondering.) Unfortunately, the plugin also seems to have caused all the formatting on the web site to have disappeared. Honestly, I do know how to use line breaks, but you wouldn't know it to look at this web site right now...

*SIGH*

Sorry about that! It will take me some time to fix the problem. Sorry if you are inconvenienced by pages that look like a mess. ]]> http://antique-crochet.com/more-antique-crochetcom-site-updates/220/feed http://antique-crochet.com/antique-lovers-ebay-auction-eye-candy/219 http://antique-crochet.com/antique-lovers-ebay-auction-eye-candy/219#comments Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:20:30 +0000 admin http://antique-crochet.com/antique-lovers-ebay-auction-eye-candy/219

Updated June 9, '08: The auction that I posted about has ended. The final price was $505.98.

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Now THAT'S an ebay auction! Does the word "WOW" mean anything to you??! OK, the auction lot does actually have a tiny bit of antique crochet lace included in it...somewhere. Honestly, it does, that's how I found the auction in the first place. I was doing a search for antique crochet. The crochet work seems largely irrelevant to all the other amazing baubles and beauties included in the auction, but I still thought you'd probably enjoy taking a look at the auction. I'm telling you, this is window shopping at its finest. I soooo envy the winner of this one.

(No other crochet that I saw, but even so that seller's other items are worth a look too- this is the prettiest collection of vintage jewelry I've seen so far this week.)

UPDATE! Wow, it gets even better! When I originally posted about this auction it had a buy it now price on it. I can't remember exactly what the price originally was, but it was over $1,000 (US.) Now it appears that the auction was restarted with a 99 cent opening bid. Insane! I am feeling kind of anxious for the seller at this point, because that kind of auction is such a gamble. You never know where the bidding will end up. On the other hand I am also feeling thrilled for whoever the winner ends up being. ]]> http://antique-crochet.com/antique-lovers-ebay-auction-eye-candy/219/feed http://antique-crochet.com/home-needlework-magazines/218 http://antique-crochet.com/home-needlework-magazines/218#comments Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:02:02 +0000 admin http://antique-crochet.com/home-needlework-magazines/218

There are quite a few antique issues of the Home Needlework Magazine listed for sale on ebay right now. It's especially worth noting the January 1903 Issue of Home Needlework, which has 3 amazing patterns for antique beaded floral opera & reticule bags, among other things.

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