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Crochet is traditionally worked from a written pattern using standard abbreviations or from a diagram, thus enabling non-English speakers to use English-based patterns. [34] To help counter confusion when reading patterns, a diagramming system using a standard international notation has come into use (illustration, left).
In 1892, the Ithaca Kitty became one of the first mass-produced stuffed animal toys in the United States, which was sold as "The Tabby Cat" printed pattern on muslin by Arnold Print Works. [7] Homemade sock monkeys have been part of U.S. and Canadian culture since the Great Depression. The toy industry significantly expanded in the early 20th ...
Gauge, known in the UK as tension, is a measurement of how many stitches and rows are produced per inch or per cm on a specified size of knitting needle or crochet hook. The proposed standardization uses a four-by-four inch/ten-by-ten cm knitted stockinette or single crocheted square, with the resultant number of stitches across and rows high ...
The Pacific gull is a large white-headed gull with a distinctively heavy bill.. Gulls range in size from the little gull, at 120 grams (4 + 1 ⁄ 4 ounces) and 29 centimetres (11 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches), to the great black-backed gull, at 1.75 kg (3 lb 14 oz) and 76 cm (30 in).
Little Orphan Annie was a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray and syndicated by the Tribune Media Services.The strip took its name from the 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie" by James Whitcomb Riley, and it made its debut on August 5, 1924, in the New York Daily News.
Image Description/purpose All purpose, or Crafting scissors: With long blades and pointed tips, designed to cut long, straight, smooth cuts in a variety of materials, and to get into small areas with the tips. In sewing applications they are primarily used for non-fabric cutting applications, such as cutting out paper patterns. Applique scissors
Warbucks was born about 1894, near the fictional small town of Supine. (In Thomas Meehan's 1980 novelisation of his 1977 musical, he was born and brought up in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, and is 52 years old as of 1933, thus giving him a birthdate of 1881.
The Last Mimzy is a 2007 American science fiction adventure drama film directed by New Line Cinema founder Robert Shaye.It was loosely based upon the 1943 science fiction short story "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett (a pseudonym of husband-and-wife team Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore).