Category: Craptastic Crafts and Hobbies
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Knitting Art – NSFW
Knitting Art Karen Searle 2008 That’s right, folks, a knitting book that is not safe for work. Click through at your own peril. Submitter would especially like to draw your attention to the knitted land mines, which look like…well, not land mines. The author did call it art… -Holly Just for…
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Skirtains, Anyone?
Alchemy Arts: Recycling is Chic MacKay and Jennings 2010 This book was recently weeded from a medium sized public library for a complete lack of check-outs. It’s not awful, exactly, but definitely a little weird. The examples are described in general terms, but there aren’t really exact directions or patterns or…
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Knit yourself a toilet cozy
Knitting For Your Home Weiss 1980 Submitter: My local library had this dated book in its crafts section. What caught my eye was the section on knitting for your toilet. I guess that makes sense since we do sit there for a spell each day. Holly: Indeed we do! Do people…
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Making Masks
Masks and How to Make Them Slade 1964 Submitter: ‘Mask-making is a fascinating and inexpensive hobby’ states the blurb. Maybe so, but should it necessarily be promoted by such a disturbing cover? Believe it or not, these are children sporting their home made paper mache ‘Big Heads’. The writing is beautifully…
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Egg Carton Zoo
Egg-Carton Zoo II Haas, Blohm & Blohm 1989 Submitter: Our district, a medium sized public library, haw been doing some pretty heavy weeding and one of the places I’ve been working has been the Juvenile 700’s. When I first saw this, I thought how long has this been hiding here? I…
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More Grave Matters
Fancy Coffins to Make Yourself Power 2001 Submitter: This book was weeded from our public library collection because it hadn’t circulated in more than 5 years. The front cover was enough to make me laugh and post a picture to Instagram with the hastag #NeglectedBooks and #LibrarianHumor, but I didn’t…
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