A trip to the flea market yielded a delightful find. Anne Halliday's "Decorating with Crochet", published in 1975. I adore the decorations of the 60's and 70's and in the 70's crochet figures prominently. There is something terribly appealing about the horror vacui of the decorating styles, the busy-ness and clashing patterns. I love tacky. Sadly, I have always had to share living quarters, and will for the foreseeable future. While my roommates have been gracious with accepting most of my bizarre decorating proclivities I have never been able to go off the deep end.
One day I will fill my home with bizarre and hideous tapestries, but for the time being I have made only this small throw, which is supposed to be a tablecloth. I managed to de-seventies it by using blue and green rather than yellow and brown. Come to find out it matches my roommates chair. Everybody wins.
I love it esp the colors.
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