April 1980

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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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.   

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.”       

​I tried to find a version of this to make because I hear toilet paper concealers are back in style:

 
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?