A "CROCHET KING."

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 473, 16 August 1915, Page 4

A "CROCHET KING."

Many energetic Red Cross workers here are put to shame by a popular business man (states a Avriter in "the Sydney "Telegraph"). The man in question is a good all-round sport, who in boyhood broke a leg so badly that a long convalescence was the result. During this convalescence he not only learned to knit, but to crochet as well. And, having once come under the spell of tho latter art, ho became so proficient that he.never gave it up. He thoroughly enjoys his title of "Crochet King," and very few expert workers can rival his skill in either crochet filet or Irish crochet. He has sold and raffled an iminenso amount of work since the Avar began, and has, in addition, made over 150 pairs of socks. It would be hard to discover a more masculine typo of man; I yet the delicacy of his work is wonderjful, while his methods of dealing with i intricate patterns strikes envy and adj miration into the minds of even the i initiated. A good many men are now [knitting and crocheting wool for the soldiers, but so far the "Crochet King" is the only man known to be selling fine lace of his own making for the funds.