Image of my little basket!

Thank you all for the your kind words. I am considering about how to share the pattern. It=B4s quite old, at least from the late seventies, so it would not be a =

problem to share it. I could put it online, but it=B4s in Italian... What do you think about it?

Hugs,

Anna Maria

Hej Aud!

I used "allroundlim", lots of it. It=B4s a sort of liquid glue. In Italy I used Vinavil, which is much more powerful. I diluted it in some water, soaked the doily in it and modelled it on a=20 bowl. I remember that my mother used "fish glue" (don=B4t know how to translate= =20 it), the kind you use for cooking.

No, you are not a "gammal tant"! LOL

Hugs,

Anna Maria

Hej Aud!

I used "allroundlim", lots of it. It´s a sort of liquid glue. In Italy I used Vinavil, which is much more powerful. I diluted it in some water, soaked the doily in it and modelled it on a bowl. I remember that my mother used "fish glue" (don´t know how to translate it), the kind you use for cooking.

No, you are not a "gammal tant"! LOL

Hugs,

Anna Maria

Hei, Anna Maria! Fish glue... fiskelim here, made by fish starkening. Very strong. And surely good for the purpose! But as I remember from my childhood it smelled??? May be my grandmother made it the "natural way", as they lived "with their toes in the sea"! Aud ;-)

Hej Aud!

Yes, it smelled a lot and I decided not to use that. I made a bread basket many many years ago and my mother used fiskelim for that (the stink went eventually away after a while). I can be wrong but commercial "fiskelim" is no more made from fishes nowadays, but the shock remains :-D

Hugs,

Anna Maria

I used "allroundlim", lots of it. It´s a sort of liquid glue. In Italy I used Vinavil, which is much more powerful. I diluted it in some water, soaked the doily in it and modelled it on a bowl. I remember that my mother used "fish glue" (don´t know how to translate it), the kind you use for cooking.

No, you are not a "gammal tant"! LOL

Hugs,

Anna Maria

I don't know the glue mentioned by Anna Maria but I think Elmer's glue (a white liquid) thinned with water could also be used. Also, one can buy stiffeners in stores like Joann's.

chocolate

Oh that makes so much sense! I could never wrap myself around the idea of eating "glue" (even as a kid) it's so gross. The "paste" description makes sense.

Anyway, the basket is beautiful!

Susana

If you put it on line in Italian, we could try running it through a web-translator, along with consulting a list of crochet terms in Italian (I seem to remember someone posting a site with translated terms a while back), and figure it out that way...

The Book "The Illustrated Dictionary of Knitting " By Rae Compton, Interweave press 1988. Has a 3 lists of FOREIGN TERMS , pages 137-140. French- English German -English Italian- English mirjam

I would love to have the pattern, Anna Maria! It's really beautiful!

"colla di pesce" is the same thing as "gelatin", but I think the gelatin used in the US is made from animal bones instead of fish bones. Or at least it was in the old days; now maybe it's made in a laboratory.

I would be happy to help with the translation. I crochet using both Italian, English and American patterns, so I know the terminology in all of those systems.

Katherine

LOL We MUST be the same age!

Katherine