Hankering for Yarn

Autumn Leaves Belt

by Noreen on June 29th, 2008

I just posted about the fab new book that a group of my designer friends and I have just released: Belt Book

and orders 

as well as a note of advice about self publishing: Myra’s class 

Here’s the belt that I designed for the book:

Autumn Leaves:

I made the leaf buckle, too. I  actually made it several times.

First time, I made it in brass.

That didn’t feel right.

Then I realized - this belt is about ~leaves~  Duh!

So I made the buckle in wood, and was really happy with it.

Unfortunately, so was our little dog.  The cats obviously knocked the belt down, because the dog shot past me in his

“I am doing something wicked and I know it and I know that I have to run fast, because as soon as you catch me, you’ll take it away from me’  mode.

I didn’t even bother to try and figure out what just shot past.

I know when he does his wicked run that I have to grab a handful of cat food and run like blazes after him.  He has me well trained.

Anyhow, the little booger managed to get some really solid chomps into the belt buckle.   GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Yes, that was me growling, not him.

So, I re-worked the buckle, and got most of the chomp marks out.  A few of the teeth marks are too deep to sand out, so they are conversation pieces.  grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

When I was designing the leaves for the belt, I went out into the garden and used actual leaves from our trees as the models for the leaf motifs.  Always great to work directly from nature!

The book is just terrific!

You can order it from BELT BOOK

Image source: Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright 

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