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April 1980

3/28/2020

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This month I had to choose an issue that had patterns that I have yarn for already.  Going to the store after a pattern was chosen isn’t really an option so we ended up with a few small projects from April 1980. 
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April 1980 Workbasket Magazine Cover
Love the bottle in the (human) kids hands.

​Jimmy Carter was the president.  US, France and USSR all were still performing nuclear tests.   The Iran hostage crisis was happening and Post-it notes were introduced. 
 
The Top 40 Songs included:
  • "Call Me" – Blondie
  • "Ride Like the Wind"  - Christopher Cross
  • "Lost in Love" – Air Supply
  • "With you I’m Born Again" – Billy Preston and Syreeta
  • "Fire Lake" – Bob Seger
  • "You May Be Right" -  Billy Joel
  • "Sexy Eyes" - Dr. Hook
  • "Don’t Fall in Love with a Dreamer" – Kenny Rogers with Kim Carnes
  • "Any Way You  Want It" – Journey
  • "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" – Queen
  • "The Rose" – Bette Midler
 
Best seller list top 15 Fiction included
  • The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
  • Princess Daisy by Judith Krantz
  • The Dead Zone by Stephen King
 
Non Fiction included these rousing tomes:
  • Free to Choose by Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman
  • All you need to know about the IRS by Paul N Strassels
 
The list gets more interesting towards the bottom half of the top 15 with:
  • Aunt Erma’s Cope Book by Erma Bombeck
  • Ordeal by Linda Lovelace and Mike McGrady
  • View from A Broad by Better Midler
 
 
The April 1980 issue of Workbasket Magazine has three patterns; Crochet Trim for Easter Eggs, Quick as a Bunny and Mini-Hanging Planter.   You’ll choose between the bunny and the planter because I don’t have Styrofoam eggs and glass headed pins.
 
The bunny is made out of worsted yarn, felt scraps, glue and stuffing.   
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The planter description says, “Here is a design for all of the 4 ply worsted yarn or rug yarn scraps in the house.”   It doesn’t say how big the mini planter is or how much yarn aside from “all the…scraps in the house.”  
     

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​I tried to find a version of this to make because I hear toilet paper concealers are back in style:
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The two dolls, Jon-Jon and Janie are the toilet paper covers.  Little Stinker is made to cover an air-freshener can.   Tommy Turtle is hiding an extra bar of soap.  If anyone finds me a free version of this I will make something from it!
 
But for now, should I make the bunny or the planter?

2 Comments
Rosemary
3/28/2020 05:29:42 pm

Here comes Peter Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail!

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Alana
3/29/2020 07:38:42 am

He's kind of cute for a 1980 pattern.

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    I'm from Minnesota and have been crocheting since 2003.  I inherited a box full of Workbasket Magazines from my mother-in-law and became obsessed with the vintage patterns.  

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