crochet
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"I don't think it is useful to spend this money on tigers," she said, working on a yellow piece of crochet.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
When Whitaker Pace’s son asked her to buy a now hard-to-find hacky sack, she dug out her own crochet bean bag, untouched for decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
Earlier this fall, I decided to learn to crochet in earnest.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2025
Chingakham Radha, one of the newly resettled residents, said she learned to make crochet dolls while living in the camp and now earns a small income from selling them.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025
If a person could crochet a Wonder, she’d be the one to do it.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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"She's very introverted. She likes to stay home and do little hobbies. She knits and crochets."
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
She also is involved in her church and crochets.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2022
And he crochets: Crawford is part of Needle Wizards, a group that knits clothes and teddy bears for cancer patients and homeless shelters.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2018
Jeunette says she thinks of the little child who will someday sleep in her pale pink blanket as she crochets it.
From Washington Times ● May 27, 2018
Paul made no reply, but took his crochets and carried them some fifty yards away, toward the house where Elina worked; and there he took his stand.
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de
Artist Elizabeth Joseph, known for making miniature furniture, was dressed head to toe in crochet and even had huge crochet bangles on her arm and a crocheted ring.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Tucked under her bed and behind cabinets he found more than 50 pieces—including crocheted top hats and sausage-like sculptures—that she’d created.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
Later, Mars and Lady Gaga cosplayed a version of “California Dreamin’,” with Stefani Germanotta donning a crocheted cap and prairie dress and going overboard with a kooky psychedelic lean.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2025
“Oh my gosh, that’s so her — they’re crocheted and sit there. That being said, Carrie looks amazing in this dress.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2024
The bed was large, covered with a crocheted spread on which two peacocks stood beak to beak.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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Two weeks before the show, young seamstresses were crocheting floral motifs in mohair and Japanese metallic thread at a south London studio overlooking the Thames river and Big Ben.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
Fiber arts like knitting, crocheting, and embroidery have never been completely apolitical.
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2026
She said the response to the cafe's "offline nights" had been positive so far, adding: "There were strangers sat on tables together, and a lot of skill sharing such as knitting and crocheting."
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2025
James Wyman supported the popular theory that it was a device used for knitting, while Lauren Dolphin, from Essex, said: "It is for crocheting gloves, different holes for different finger/thumb sizes."
From BBC ● May 4, 2024
And Adah, crocheting black borders on napkins and tossing them to the wind.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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