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Hankering for Yarn

Archive for March 2008

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March 31st, 2008

Spool knitted Worry Doll Tutorial - Links

Part one of the Spool knitted Worry Doll tutorial

Part Two: Shape the Worry Doll’s body and head, and make the sweater

Part Three: The Skirt for the Spool Knitted Worry Doll

Part Four: The Hair for the Spool knitted Worry Doll

And, here are the links for the

Cornstarch Clay Worry Doll 
This Spool knitted Worry […]

By Noreen -- 15 comments

March 31st, 2008

Spool knitted Worry Doll Tutorial - 4- Hair

Part 3 of the Spool knitted Worry Doll Tutorial was about the skirt.
Part 4  of the Spool knitted Worry Doll Tutorial by Noreen Crone-Findlay ©

With 3 or 4 pegs of your spool knitter, spool knit a cord that is approximately 1 1/2 inches (4 cm) long.
Tie it in a loop.
Take a stitch or two to […]

By Noreen -- 4 comments

March 31st, 2008

Spool knitted Worry Doll Tutorial - 3- skirt

Spool knitted Worry Doll Tutorial Part 3
by Noreen Crone-Findlay ©
Part 2 of the tutorial was about shaping the body and making the sweater for the Spool Knitted Worry Doll
Now, to make her a skirt:

Cut a 4 inch (10 cm) long piece of 5/8 inch (1.5 cm) wide ribbon.
Sew the short ends together.
Then, go in and […]

By Noreen -- 2 comments

March 31st, 2008

Spool knitted Worry Doll Tutorial - 2

Spool knitted Worry Doll Tutorial Part 2
by Noreen Crone-Findlay ©

Part one of the tutorial got things started with spool knitting the body, legs, head and arms.
And now, to shape the Worry Doll:

thread the yarn ends at the ends of the cord into a darning needle and weave them into the cord.
Bring them out […]

By Noreen -- 3 comments

March 31st, 2008

Spool knitted Worry Doll Tutorial - 1

I’ve been avoiding writing about Worry Dolls for days,

while, at the same time, obsessing about them.
We live in Worrisome Times.
I bet the Middle Ages felt calmer on some days than the ruptious and distressing stuff that passes for the ‘daily normal’ on most of the planet right now.
So, if you are a worrier […]

By Noreen -- 2 comments

March 30th, 2008

Worry dolls- almost

When I was designing and making this Worry Doll:

I started out by basing my measurements on another little doll that I made a few years ago:

and I ended up transforming her, too.
So, she ended up like this:

I figured that she’s such a little cutie that I should probably upload a tutorial on how to […]

By Noreen -- 5 comments

March 29th, 2008

Worry dolls-coming soon

Worry Dolls have been on my mind lately. I blame Marcie
She teased us by saying that she’s got a posting coming up in a day or so, about Worry Dolls.
I did a few sketches of some potential Worry Dolls a day or so ago, but they were rrrrrrrrrrealllllllllly rough…. as in the dolls […]

By Noreen -- 0 comments

March 28th, 2008

Friday fun -artsy bloggers roundup

I am really enjoying being part of the artsy bloggers. I love seeing what the rest of the group has been up to.
Here’s this week’s roundup:
14 Reasons to Keep a Visual Journal
Links to an article with 14 reasons artists keep visual journals. Worth reading.
Esperanza - Knitted Doll of Hope
‘Esperanza’ means hope, which Noreen thinks we […]

By Noreen -- 0 comments

March 27th, 2008

Vintage no? new? yes!

I am passionate about small loom weaving.
 
I have a collection of vintage looms that I dearly love, including Lily Speed oWeave looms and Magic square looms.
 
Technically, they are not ~weaving~ looms. They are ‘hold your yarn in nifty patterns and go into an altered state of consciousness and tie rhythmically a sequence of interlocking knots’ […]

By Noreen -- 1 comment

March 27th, 2008

Wishing Windows Loom -Links

Oops… I just realized that I don’t have a links page for our Wishing Windows looms!

So, putting it all together, here are the links!
I introduced them back in the summer of 2007
Here’s the instructions for the  heart shape amulet bag 
and another little amulet bag 
and a felted Rabbit Finger puppet 
and a felted Comfort Teddy Bear 
and mending […]

By Noreen -- 0 comments

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