Love Grows: A Half-Moon Clutch to Crochet Pattern Download

The project name, “Love Grows,” comes from the title of a 1970 top-ten hit by the band Edison Lighthouse. My sister-in-law Donna received her lace tablecloth the same year; she used it in her wedding two years later. “I’m a lucky fella,” the song goes, “and I’ve just got to tell her, / that I love her endlessly ....” What better way to remember that, like most things we nurture and cherish, “love grows.”

Materials required

• DMC Baroque, 100% cotton thread, bedspread weight, 416 yards (380.4 m)/75 gram (2.6 oz) skein, 1 skein of White;

• Coats Closed Bottom Fashion Cutwork Zipper, #F65, 22 inches (55.9 cm), White; sewingsecrets.com/products/f65

• Skacel Addi Crochet Hook, steel, size 8 (1.5 mm) or size needed to obtain gauge; .com

• Tapestry needle

• Fabric, ½ yard (0.5 m) of 100% cotton (shown: Quilt Block Quarters Violet Flower)

• Pellon Craft-Fuse #808, ¾ yard (0.7 m)

• Sewing needle

• Sewing thread, White and to match inside and outside lining

Finished size: 13 inches (33.0 cm) in diameter Gauge: 1 motif = 2 5/16 inches (5.9 cm) diameter (from star point to star point), unblocked

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