Vintage Magic Looms don’t do granny squares

The post office loves it when we  decide to de-clutter.

We find treasures that we send to our friends- so the friends are happy, and the post office is sooooooo happy because Friend B then mails a treasure on to Friend C, to keep the de-cluttering going.

And, oh yes,Friend B has to send a little thank you back to Friend A.  Yes… the post office loves it when we de-clutter.

One of my friends(Friend A)

started a cycle of

making the Post Office

and me (Friend B)

very happy.

We were talking about

small looms and

flower looms.

She had noticed that I blogged about my broken  much loved flower loom . She mentioned that she had an extra flower loom or two and would I like to have them?

Are you kidding? I went wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee oh yes oh yes oh yes oh yes puhleeeeeeeeeeeze……..

I was thrilled to bits

when I opened

the box and

whoo whoo!

Not only had my

friend sent me

some flower looms

(I’ll take pics)

she sent me

a set of Magic Looms, too..

And, I just  cracked up when I saw that the big box of new loomies has EXACTLY the same photo, (only upside down), as the little box that I already have.

Magic Looms are

really quite

wonderful.

They make neat little

squares of all descriptions….

and it struck me

today, that you could

use them as flower looms, too….

(That’s on my ‘give it a try’ list.)

I have been

experimenting with

using the Magic Loom

for making needle lace .

I love using the motifs

from the Magic Looms

in dollmaking  and

freeform crocheted

pieces, too.

There are a lot of ways of

working with the

rather appropriately

named little loomies.

(I don’t think they’re made anymore, so you’ll have to watch for them in garage sales and at thrift stores and places like that).

The one thing that the Magic Looms ABSOLUTELY DO NOT make would be anything remotely resembling a crocheted Granny Square.

So, tell me….. why, oh why, would the manufacturers show a photo (repeatedly and then upside down) of something that their product is totally incapable of making?

Why would they do that?

Don’t they understand how ticked off some poor person was going to feel about it, if the only reason why she bought it was because she thought that she could make a granny square on it?

Ah well, customer relations were obviously not part of their picture.

That’s okay, because The Post Office is pleased.

And,  Friend A is hopefully going to be pleased, because, of course, I will have to send her a little something to say thank you, and then there’s Friend C that will be receiving a little something from my stash. (In the interests of de-cluttering).

Yep…. the Post Office loves de-cluttering…. don’t we all?