25 Appalachian Crochet Doilies Grandma Never Wrote Down

25 Appalachian Crochet Doilies Grandma Never Wrote Down Maw's doilies went in a shoebox when she died, and at the sale the auctioneer could not get a dollar for the box. One of those pieces was a week of evenings, worked in thread finer than what you'd sew a shirt with, out of a count she had in her head and never once set down on paper. So here are the 25 things that went into grandma's doilies. You'll find out which one is a piece of plain arithmetic you can miss by two stitches and end up with a bowl instead of a circle, which one is the mill-floor lung disease that put the thread in her basket, and which one is sitting in a drawer in this house right now as the only copy of its own pattern in the world. Every claim in this video is sourced, and the cards are on screen. That includes the two places the folklore doesn't hold up: the pineapple doily is not an old mountain custom, and the lemon-juice-and-sunshine trick for yellowed lace really does whiten it — by trading away the strength of the thread. Item 12 covers byssinosis (brown lung) and the 1978 cotton dust standard as history, not as medical or legal advice. Item 8 discusses bleaches — follow the product's own directions.#Appalachia #AppalachianHistory #CrochetDoily #ThreadCrochet #VintageCrochet #LostSkills #PineappleDoily #IrishCrochet #StarchingDoilies #MountainWomen #AmericanHistory #oldways 1. Sarah Maker — How to Crochet a Flat Circle (increase formula, tension, ring methods) https://sarahmaker.com/crochet-flat-c... 2. Mrs Crochet World — Flat circle increase formula (blocking does not fix over-increase) https://mrscrochetworld.com/blogs/cro... 3. Honeybee — Crochet in the Round (magic ring, marking rounds) https://joinhoneybee.com/blog/crochet... 4. The Grey Gal — Lily Mills Co. vintage advertisements and news clippings (founded 1903, Shelby NC) https://thegreygal.com/lily-mills-co-... 5. Knit & Crochet wiki — Lily Book 1600, Doilies to Treasure https://knitandcrochet.fandom.com/wik...