Hankering for Yarn

April 30th, 2007

b5 Artist’s Showcase for May 2007

It’s Artist’s Showcase again on the Arts and Design channel of b5 blog network!

Cyndi, over at Layers upon Layers,
is our host for this month’s showcase. Please check it out for lots of wonderfulness!
Our theme this month, is    “Flowers”  which is great, because I am a flowerfiend. Here’s what I have been doing lately with flower […]

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April 29th, 2007

Angels for Peace - Pieces of Peace

In the  summer of 2007, I taught a workshop on making Angels for Peace.
Noreen’s Workshops
I think a lot about how we make peace.
Peace is made in a million, billion different ways, every day, one little piece of peace at a time. Making an Anges of Peace doll is a metaphor that  reminds […]

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April 24th, 2007

Many Flowers Mighty Mamma Spoolie

In my last posting
I shared some pics of recent spoolies that we have just made for people.
After this endless winter that we have just sludged through, I am longing for flowers! And, I was so pleased when a lady sent me a note, saying: I want a spoolie with flowers - many flowers!
Yes! Here it […]

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April 24th, 2007

Some recent spoolies

Jim and I have been making some really fun spoolies recently.
An email buddy from the Freeform Crochet list asked us to do a trio of Spoolies. He wanted Green Man imagery on Mighty Mamma’s and Dancing Duchesses, but we had to re-name them  to reflect their more ‘manly’ nature! :D
Their new name? ‘Les Hommes Fantastique’. […]

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April 21st, 2007

How to make bag handles from coathangers - arch shape

I am so pleased that so many stores are now asking people to bring their own shopping bags. And, hurrah for San Francisco for banning plastic shopping bags!
In the ‘Lover’s Knot’ workshop that I am teaching this summer at the Knit and Crochet show in Manchester NH, I’ll be showing people how to […]

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April 21st, 2007

Knitting for charity

A friend just sent me this wonderful link:
charityknittingforchildren
If you’d like to do some knitting or crocheting for children in need, there are a ton of links on this page. I think I’ll submit some of my projects to them, too, like the
Friendship Finger Puppet 
that I designed for people to make as a little ‘I care […]

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April 19th, 2007

Menopause fairies

Whump.
We have had ~one week~  of springtime.
Raking the yard, drinking tea on the deck, peeling off a few layers…….. ahhhhh! Bliss!
and then………

The goose was wondering where the stream went……

sigh.
:(
Ah, well.   It was an excellent day to contemplate the wonderful responses to my question in my last posting…    
I was really moved by the very […]

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April 18th, 2007

Spoolknitted Menopause Fairy Doll

Designing and making the Red Hat Spoolknitters

and then the Spoolknitted Red Hats naturally got the wheels turning for me…
If there is a Red Hat, shouldn’t there be a perfect little doll to wear it? And wouldn’t that perfect doll be a Menopause Fairy?
Part of the designing process is to get it ~close~ but not […]

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April 17th, 2007

Cross Currents Vest Workshop

I am working on several new vests as inspiration for the Cross Currents Vest workshop that I am teaching at the Knit and Crochet Show this summer.
See: Workshops
I’ll have lots of wild and wonderful vests there, showing how you can pull together all kinds of techniques to create one of a kind, amazing and […]

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April 13th, 2007

Red Hat Spoolknitters

My best friend’s Mom  is a total sweetheart.  She’s very active with the Red Hat Society.   To celebrate this, my best friend had given her a ‘Small Wonders’ spoolknitter
that I had made. It had a red hat on it….. and since she enjoys it so much, she decided that she should give 6 of […]

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