Hankering for Yarn

August 27th, 2006

Making Doll Shoes:Full circle in dollmaking

Photo copyright Noreen Crone-Findlay
Last week, my husband, Jim and I were vendors at a gathering of handspinners. (Oh! what lovely energy to be in the same room with all those wheels and the occaisional spindle, spin spin spinning!).
In the same building, there was a gallery, and so, gallery visitors drifted through the spinner’s gathering. […]

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August 25th, 2006

A Spoolknitted Peace Doll on a Woven Peace Banner

This is a photo of a wonderful peace banner when it was still in progress on a Saori Loom.
My dear friend, Terri Bibby, of Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada, is a weaver of peace. She is a gentle, wise, visionary who truly
IS peace.
I posted a picture of her amazing woven Peace Banner on
www.hankeringforyarn.com
today,
and you can […]

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August 25th, 2006

Weaving for Peace: A Glorious Saori Woven Peace Banner

Terri Bibby is a wonderful woman who has created an incredibly beautiful project. Here she is with the 30 foot long Saori woven Peace Banner that she has been the ‘mother’ of.
She warped her Saori loom with 30 feet of gorgeous yarns. She took her loom to the Vancouver BC Peace conference in June 2006. […]

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August 5th, 2006

Mother love…. knitting and crocheting for charity

Carol Alexander’s Talking Crochet came out today, and reminded me about the world report on mothers and children.
When I first read about it, a few weeks back, I zoomed right over to the ‘Save the Children’ website and made a donation.
There are lots of things that people can do to help…….
like making baby caps.

www.savethechildren.org
State of […]

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August 4th, 2006

Peace Dolls Project: Come to the Window, part 2

A comment was made in response to my last posting:
“Why is it that we women worry about peace and the men make war?”
My response was to flinch.
Ouch.
I hear the pain and anger in this statement,
but I believe that we need
to rise above
our pain, our anger, our outrage.
Not all men are war makers,
not all women are […]

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August 1st, 2006

The Tapestries of Barbara Heller

http://www.cabc.net/mem_sect/MemSites/bheller/bio.html
Oh, my word!
Her work is gobsmackingly powerful, gorgeous, incredible.
wow.
I am in awe.
blessings
Noreen
www.crone-findlay.com

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August 1st, 2006

The Peace Doll Project: Come to the Window

I am outraged and appalled by the death and destruction in Lebanon and Israel
(and in countless other places on the planet -
it’s happening all over).
I have had to come to terms with my anger,
and recognize that adding my rage
to the already inflamed energy does not do any good at all.
I need to transmute that energy […]

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