1 **Embroider** an inspirational word or a name on a piece of fleece before using it to make a throw, blanket or pillow cover. 2  Mix patterns for a reversible throw -- which won't show any jelly finger marks as fast as a solid color. 3  Take the pins out of the blanket, if you used them, as soon as you finish knotting.
A hooverville near Portland, Oregon. A Hooverville was a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States of America. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States of America during the onset of the Depression and was widely blamed for it. The term was coined by Charles Michelson, publicity chief of the Democratic National Committee. There were hundreds of Hoovervilles across the country during the 1930s and hundreds of thousands of people lived in these slums.
Hoover Dam is in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between Arizona and Nevada in the USA. == == At the bottom or southern end of Lake Mead at the Nevada-Arizona border. Located in the Black Canyon on the Colorado River, Hoover Dam lies about thirty miles southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada.