Category: Craptastic Crafts and Hobbies
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Hanimations
Hanimations Mariotti 1988 Submitter: The purpose of the book isn’t exactly clear. It doesn’t explain how to create Hanimations for yourself. It’s not a story about these creatures. It’s just…pictures of this guy’s painted hands? And in some pictures, an unusual amount of arm hair. More arm hair than is typically…
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Men, Dogs, and Knitting
“Men Who Knit & the Dogs Who Love Them: 30 Great-Great Looking Designs for Man & His Best Friend” Modessit and Emborsky 2007 Submitter: This book appeals to a worldwide audience of maybe five people: namely dudes who are into knitting matching man/dog Rasta hats. Thankfully there are tons of full-page…
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Royal Knitting
Royal Knits: Designer Knitting for the Monarchy and Monarchists McGuire 1987 The world was just as royal-frenzied in the 1980s as they are now, so maybe this book is popular again! Charles and Diana were married and produced two princes in the early 1980s, and William and Kate and Baby…
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Please Throw it Away!
Don’t Throw It Away! Abell 1973 Another gorgeous craft book from an unnamed public library’s craft section. (No, as of this writing it was NOT weeded.) I had no trouble guessing that this was direct from the 1970s. The harvest colors are a dead giveaway. Everything was harvest gold, avocado…
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DIY Hot Tub
Build your Own Hot Tub Miller 1979 Submitter: In actuality a fairly well done how-to book; the cover alone demands submission. You just KNOW that there are no bathing suits in evidence there – and is that Paul Simon third from the left?! Especially when reading the last sentence in…
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Nightmare in the Craft Section
The Great Pantyhose Crafts Book Baldwin 1982 Perhaps I am not the best to judge a crafting book’s weed-worthiness, but I think this book is just this side of disturbing. Evidence is in the first picture below. I am certainly not putting life-size dolls in my living room. I don’t…
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