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Suzann Thompson
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Author, crocheter, knitter, art maker, Comanche County TX Democratic Party Chair, family gal, Center for Knit and Crochet Board member.
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Suzann Thompson @suzannthompson.bsky.social · Nov 14
Hi Blue Sky!
This is “Earth, Poppy, Sky,” one of the little art quilts I make with vintage linens and more.
Looking forward to reading all y’all’s political, bookish, arty, scientific, and crafty posts.💙

#CrochetFlower #CrochetPoppy #FoundEmbroidery #ArtQuilt
A small quilt with a piano keys border, starting with brown tones at the bottom, green transitioning into red up the sides, and blue at the top. The center of the quilt features a red crocheted poppy with green leaves framed by a square of white fabric with rustic-looking red embroidery.
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Happy national lei day! Created as a part of a #CKCMember’s series of crochet state flowers, this one was meant to evoke maʻo hau hele, Hawaii’s state flower.
Learn more about this pieces creation in the #CKCCommunityCollection!
#crochet #decor #hibiscus #lei #threadcrochet
May 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Did you know that covers, like the one pictured here, were made to keep insects out of milk or other liquids? Placed overtop of a jug or pitcher, these were primarily used before refrigeration. The beads alongside the outside helped keep the the cover in place.
May 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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The #CKCCommunityCollection is a great way to preserve and share your history and stories -- it's YOUR museum! Take it from Mineko, who shared details about her mother's creation: "My mother made this in the early 90’s and gave to me as a Christmas gift...
May 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Yesterday was #NationalTextilesDay. Preoccupied with a cemetery association meeting and visitors, I missed it. But that’s okay, bc at my house every day is Textiles Day!❤️❤️❤️
Four lacy, crocheted doilies are stitched to a pink, wool-felt background. Slightly left of the lower middle, one doily is relatively small. It is white and has 3-D, so-called Irish crochet roses around the edge. To its left is a filet crochet piece with flowers and a bow, off-white colored and straight-edged, ending in a point. It was probably an armchair cover. Continuing counter-clockwise, the third doily emerges from the top left corner. Its center is solid, and stems radiate from the center, ending in scalloped edges. It is also off-white. The final doily, at right, has an eight-pointed star shape radiating from the center, increasing to 16 points around the edge. The last three doilies are trimmed to the rectangular shape of the pink felt. A narrow tan felt border covers the edges of the pink felt and the cut edges of three doilies. It is stitched to the pink felt with a blanket stitch. Numerous pink buttons, in various styles, are sewn around the border. Six lines of seven black, white, and black-and-white buttons are sewn across the pink felt center of the piece.
May 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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There are now just 4 spaces left on my botanical illustration & mental health w'shop next Thurs, 8 May

I'll teach you:
🌿how to break plants down into simple shapes & add shading
🧠how time spent creatively alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health:

workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota...
A small nature collection of botanical specimens, feathers etc with my illustrations and species name alongside on a sketchbook double page spread Cornflowers, Nigella, sweet peas and Russian sage, my illustrations of them on the opposite page of a sketchbook and my fountain pen nearby Summer botanical specimens from hedgerow and garden with my illustrations and their species names alongside on a large piece of watercolour paper, with my hand and fountain pen in shot Later spring garden finds including Alchemical mollie, viola, lavender and borage with my illustrations of them alongside, plus a cup of tea and small posy also in shot
April 30, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Hannah was a good dog.❤️
ctrknitcrochet.bsky.social Center for Knit and Crochet @ctrknitcrochet.bsky.social · Apr 11
For #NationalPetDay, let's meet some #CKCCommunity pups! Hannah, Flower, and Annie were pack mates at the Texas home of Charles and Suzann in the late 1980s. When Suzann finished knitting a blanket with a dog patterned trim, the dogs knew intuitively it was for them!
April 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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*Every* person deported to El Salvador with Kilmer Abrego Garcia and Andry Hernández Romero deserves to be returned to the US and given due process.
I understand why some get more attention, but they *all* need to be brought back.
April 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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CKC's Annual Meeting is in May, and all current members are invited to attend! If you'd like to join us, please register in your CKC account under Events before May 1st. You will receive the link and an Agenda prior to the meeting. Hope to see you there!
#AnnualMeeting #CKCCommunity
April 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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ctrknitcrochet.bsky.social Center for Knit and Crochet @ctrknitcrochet.bsky.social · Apr 10
Time for another #MeetTheTeamThursday! Today, we meet Suzann, a lifelong maker and pattern designer. You may recognize her name from some of the incredible pieces found in the #CKCCommunityCollection. Swipe through to learn about Suzann!
April 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Are you passionate about CKC's mission? Consider volunteering on our Board of Directors!
While we specifically seek skills and experience in Information Technology, Communications/Public Relations, or Programs, all interested individuals are encouraged to apply.
April 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Each year, CKC sponsors the #NeedleworkAwards for the National Make It With Wool (MIWW) competition, and in January, the 2024 winners were announced. Congratulations Srikeerti Chinthala and Emilia DeLorenzo!
March 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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CKC Board Member, Marilyn, is working on her #RBGsFavorite Collar by Amanda Yung for the #CKCCollarAlong. Read on to learn about Marilyn's inspiration and connection to her family through this project:
March 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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“It was a work of art.
It was better than that. It was a work of craft.”
—Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

My favorite quote of his.

#GNU #TerryPratchett #WeMissYou
March 13, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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This turned out so cute!❤️
It started as a vintage embroidered hanging pocket or pouch—embroiderer unknown. I trimmed it, pieced a background, and embellished with vintage tatted trim and old red buttons.
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#ScottieDog #VintageEmbroidery #VintageTatting #OldButtons #MiniQuilt #ArtQuilt
The embroidered Scotty dog, described in the next photo, has been cut from its original pocket arrangement, resulting in a square piece of fabric. The embroidery is set on-point on a square of fabric with red flowers, green leaves, and a sprinkling of yellow. A narrow band of tatted trim in blue, red, green, and yellow surrounds the embroidery. The embroidery and floral fabric are surrounded with a band of black fabric. A piano keys border around the central piece consists of green fabric strips, shading into red, shading into yellow. Many different fabrics were used in the border. Some white quilting stitches are visible on the piece. It is bound with a green and turquoise floral fabric. Round red buttons embellish the four corners of the embroidered piece. An embroidered Scotty dog peers over a wooden fence with its paws resting on the fence. The fence is illustrated by vertical lines of brown embroidery, and horizontal lines for the top of the fence. Yellow and red embroidered flowers grow in green grass in front of the fence. The dog is embroidered in black thread. Its blue eyes look toward its left. It has a big floppy bow tied around its neck, resting behind its left shoulder. The bow is pale green with yellow polkadots outlined in red. The embroidery is on a square fabric piece set on point, with two semi circular openings cut out of the top left and top right of the diamond shape, and bound with pale green fabric. The embroidered piece is backed by another piece of fabric. They are joined around the edge and bound with pale green fabric, to form a sort of pocket. A pale green fabric loop is at the top. Red-handled scissors are in the left-hand pocket, and a couple of vintage button cards are in the right-hand pocket. The embroidered pocket rest on a green cutting board with square grids and diagonal cutting lines marked in yellow.
March 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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To preserve and promote the art, craft, and scholarship of knitting, crochet, and related arts. Center for Knit and Crochet (CKC) achieves this mission through our online museum, study center, and social networking environment to serve our community and the general public.
February 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Yay! The Center for Knit and Crochet is on Bluesky. @ctrknitcrochet.bsky.social

Follow to see what CKC has to offer, like
—CKC’s Community Collection, *your* online museum, where you can upload k/c items you made, collected, inherited, etc.
—And more!

First post coming soon.❤️
A screenshot of the Center for Knit and Crochet’s Bluesky account header. Centered at the top is CKC’s logo, a stylized ball of yarn in pale gray and white, with arcs of teal blue at top and lower edges. Small dots of teal blue are sprinkled around the yarn ball like stardust. If you could enlarge the logo, you would notice that some of the dots are heart-shaped. The words “Center for Knit & Crochet” in teal blue stretch across the center of the yarn ball, with the first and last four letters reaching beyond the yarn’s edge. Smaller print, centered underneath the teal words, reads “DIGITAL MUSEUM” in black, expanded, all caps. At mid left, the profile picture is a smaller version of CKC’s logo. At mid right, an oblong bubble encloses a check mark next to the word “following,” because naturally I am following CKC’s account. Across the lower edge, the words “Center for Knit and Crochet” and CKC’s Bluesky address: @CtrKnitCrochet.bsky.social and a pale gray stripe. Other details are phone screen things like the time, phone service bars, WiFi symbol, and the state of the phone’s battery.
February 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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There’s a reasonable amount of knitting in L. Frank Baum’s 14 books about the land of Oz. Don’t recall crochet being mentioned. Hmm. Guess I’ll have to reread them all to see if I missed it. Oh darn.

#KnittingInFiction #LFrankBaum #Oz
A knitted, heart-shaped pillow, shaped by bands and wedges in five varieties of red, lies on a greenish stone floor. The heart shape was knitted in garter stitch, creating a ribbed texture. A narrow garter stitch trim surrounds the heart shape. The pillow casts a shadow to its lower right.
February 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
I hope you find some time to work on a project you love!❤️
A square quilted wall hanging made with old sweaters features a red heart surrounded by irregular patches of black, white, and gray patterned knits. A white ruffle borders the heart; thin red rickrack is sewn around the inner edge of the ruffle, about 1/8 of an inch inside the ruffle’s edge. Inside the heart, black, white, and transparent buttons form seven symmetrical flower shapes. A scalloped, red crocheted trim is sewn about 3/4 inch inside the edge of the wallhanging, with the scallops toward the center. A shaded red crocheted flower is sewn at each corner of the red trim. A black button is sewn at the base of each scallop. The black, white, and gray background has quite a few buttons sewn to it. Most are difficult to spot, because the artist purposefully hid black buttons in black patches, and white buttons in white patches.
February 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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So far so good re: my goal of regularly uploading knit/crochet items to the Center for Knit and Crochet‘s online Community Collection. A recent one is the Cameo Butterfly Doily. Read more about it at digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/4...
Print at the top reads “Cameo Butterfly Doily by BellaCrochet.“ The doily is round, with a white ring base of 12 points, crocheted in the pineapple pattern. The ring is bordered with green on the outside and inside. Two yellow and one variegated yellow crocheted roses are arranged at the base of every third pineapple point, for a total of four sets of roses. Each set of roses has a green leaf on each side. Each leaf has three leaflets. A white butterfly has wings crocheted in the pineapple pattern, with slightly larger top wings, and smaller lower wings. The wings are bordered with a row of variegated yellow stitching. One large rose, and two small variegated yellow roses form the butterfly‘s body. Its antennae are crocheted with variegated yellow. The butterfly is attached across the original ring of crochet, with the tips of its four wings and two antennae barely overlapping the inside border of the ring.
February 4, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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I learned three new words so far from L. Frank Baum’s The Emerald City of Oz: volplaning, Zouave (re: their pants), and shako.
His books were written for children.

#LFrankBaum #Oz #Vocabulary
January 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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“People often do a good deed without hope of reward, but for an evil deed, they always demand payment.”

Thoughts of Guph, General of the Nome King’s Army
The Emerald City of Oz
By L Frank Baum
January 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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“…he has lived alone in the heart of the forest for many years and, although that is a barbarous country, there are no barbers there.”

~Dr. Pipt, the magician in The Patchwork Girl, by L Frank Baum

🤣 That’s funny.😁 🤣
January 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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One of my goals for 2025 is regularly to upload knit/crochet items to the Center for Knit and Crochet’s Community Collection. My first of the year is the amusing Armadillo Wrap. It includes 3 photos, a story and other information. Link: digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/4....

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At the top, the words “Armadillo Wrap from Wild Knitting.” Photo shows a knitted wrap, arranged in a u-shaped curve on a weathered wooden deck. The stuffed head, feet with four claws each, and the pointy tail are knitted in light brown and variegated orange and dark brown yarns, in an offset rectangles pattern to resemble the scaly skin of an armadillo. The body of the wrap has an open-knit texture in light brown, evoking the stripey look of an armadillo’s shell, at the head end and tail end. The middle one-third of the shell is solid stockinette stitch in broad light brown stripes, each separated from the next by one row of variegated orange and dark brown yarn. The armadillo’s face has black embroidered eyes. At lower edge, the website of the online collection, digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org
January 12, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Have a sparkly holiday season! ❤️
The subject of a wall hanging made of felt and decorated with sequins and embroidery is a snowman. He has an orange carrot nose. He wears a black top hat, a green and red striped scarf with fringe, and red mittens. He holds a broom over his right shoulder, and a green wreath with a red bow in his left hand. A squirrel in a red sweater, blue and red striped hat, and green scarf lays a sprig of holly with red sequin berries at the foot of the snowman. A raccoon in a blue sweater and a red and white scarf is in the act of placing the snowman’s last coal button. The wall hanging was stitched from a kit.
December 24, 2024 at 11:05 PM
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I love the American Arts of knitting and photography! ❤️🧶📷
December 21, 2024 at 11:54 PM