Noelene sent me the following message. The web page shows just over one half
of the purse. The one shown is much larger than the one my grandmother had.
The beads should be metal, so the one shown would be very heavy. I have an
old one made of some kind of fine mesh, decorated with a feather
Brenda wrote:
The size of crochet hook suggested would give a rough indication as to
the thickness of the thread which needs to sit comfortably within the
hook. I have quite a few old crochet hooks inherited from my Grandma,
so I could try the appropriate one with modern crochet cotton to get
Jean
I've no help to offer with the thread question - you seem to have about he
right sort of guess there.
I just wanted to make sure that you are aware that the instructions are
using American crocheting terms not British ones. I looked on page 9 for you
at the stitch abbreviations.
Hi Jean and everyone
I went a-googling and found this info (the bit about the coin purses
is about midpage)
https://www.hants.gov.uk/museum/bags/bags02.html
and I recall making a 'coin kitty' (based on the coin miser - with
legs and ears added g) from one of the current magazines, and
thinking
