I’m drawn to vintage sewing machines, but Guy feels the pull of oil cans. He has a small collection going. He bought all of them except the one for the featherweight, which I purchased.
They are far more interesting than the plastic bottles of today.
Today’s show and tell is a group of bone and steel crochet hooks. They belonged to my Grandma Minnie. She died 30 years ago this month and these crochet hooks were in a box of hooks I inherited.
I don’t know whether my grandmother was the original owner of these hooks or if she inherited them from someone else. The Boye steel crochet hooks haven’t changed much from those that are still available today. There are two steel hooks that don’t have the Boye name. One only has the size and the one on the far right has the size on one side and a cross hatched diamond on the other side.
I wasn’t sure whether the cream-colored hooks were ivory or bone, but I did some research this week and upon close inspection the hooks have a parallel grain line which is indicative of bone pieces.
I honestly havn’te used these tiny hooks, except to pull obvious loose threads from between the layers of a quilt.
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