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Who was Elizabeth Hiddleson?

Noreen Crone-Findlay — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:36:53 +0000

A few years ago, I bought a couple of neat vintage crochet books by the designer, Elizabeth Hiddleson.

photo by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright

Last weekend, I found 3 more of

her booklets at a garage sale.

The booklets have a specific look:

They are VERY black and white.

Hiddleson’s crocheted lace pieces

appear to have been laid on a photocopier

and photocopied.

Perhaps they were simply

placed on a black background

and photographed that way.

The 3 booklets that I found last week

When I googled to see if I could find out more information about Elizabeth Hiddleson, I drew a blank.

There are tons of entries about people selling her booklets on eBay and other venues, but for the life of me, I couldn’t find anything about her at all!

In one of the booklets, there is a photo of her son, her daughter and the house where she lived. But, there was no information about where and when she was designing and how she built up her distribution network.

She appears to have worked with the Lily thread company at some time. She also asked people to please not send her checks, just money, since her bank charged her so much to cash her checks.

I think that she would have thrived with pdf’s and paypal.

Elizabeth Hiddleson was obviously a very prolific designer, and I would love to know how she managed to take care of the million details that her publishing obviously must have raised for her.

Does anyone know anything about her? I think that she should be celebrated in the crochet and needlework community!

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Inspiration- A day in the life of a crochet designer and structural engineer

Noreen Crone-Findlay — Sun, 04 May 2008 20:32:12 +0000

Robyn Chachula has had a great idea…. she’s blogging about a day in the life of a crochet designer.

She’s a structural engineer, as well as a crochet designer, and has started the ball rolling with a really neat entry.

Check it out at: Robin’s Day

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Inspiration – Bonnie Pierce

Noreen Crone-Findlay — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:01:31 +0000

Bonnie Pierce is a real delight. She’s also a fantastic designer and teacher.

Today’s inspiration is her website:

Bonnie Pierce

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Inspiration-Amie Hirtes NexCrochet

Noreen Crone-Findlay — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:43:10 +0000

Amie Hirtes is a fine ( nah, a GENIUS) designer….

One of her designs in particular just knocks me out of the water. It’s a blue top that is positively sculptural in the way she shapes the mathematical precision of the lace…. it’s on her blog and her site.

I also love the way Amie puts her hands on her hips and tells it like it is for her and the rest of us designers who are getting thrashed by folks who feels like it’s okay to steal intellectual property. Yay, Amie!

Here’s Amie’s blog

and her website

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Inspiration – Mary Jane Hall

Noreen Crone-Findlay — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:19:15 +0000

Mary Jane Hall is a delightful person and fantastic designer. She and I publish with the same publisher: Krause Books, so we are fellow travellers!

You’ll never meet a more upbeat, positive person. Mary Jane has combined her uplifting world view with her crochet design to create work that goes way beyond ‘everyday’ crochet.

Kate Pullen is running a series of interviews with Mary Jane.

Mary Jane’s website is: Mary Jane Hall

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Inspiration – Carolyn Christmas

Noreen Crone-Findlay — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:12:02 +0000

I received two notes today from people who said that they really appreciate me listing inspiring designers.

Well! with that encouragement, I just have to share

Carolyn Christmas’s website.

Wonderful!

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Inspiration – Marty Miller

Noreen Crone-Findlay — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:11:00 +0000

One of the really neat things about teaching at conferences is getting to meet other teachers and designers. One of these wonderful people that I have met and like very much is Marty Miller.

Check out her blog: Marty Miller

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Inspiration – Annette Petavy

Noreen Crone-Findlay — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:52:11 +0000

Annette Petavy is a crochet designer who lives in France.

There’s no doubt about it…. living in France definitely influences her work!

Check out her site: Annette

Her work is lovely!

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Inspiration – Pam Gillette

Noreen Crone-Findlay — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:10:23 +0000

One of the pleasures of belonging to the Crochet Guild of America is getting to meet other crochet designers (in person or online) )

Pam Gillette is one of my ‘designer buddies’ that I have connected with, thanks to our both being members of CGOA. She’s doing all kinds of neato designs in crochet -

Check out Pam’s work at her site

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