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Hankering for Yarn

Archive for the ‘jewelry’ Category

July 23rd, 2008

Tatting Butterfly earrings - 1

Tatted butterflies make wonderful earrings.
I fell in love with Kreinik’s Metallic 1/8″ ribbon thread and wanted to tat some butterflies with it:

There’s 5 meters on the spool, but I didn’t know if that would be enough to tat 2 butterflies.
So, I decided to do an experiment.
I wound 5 m of Rainbow Hemp Beading Twine from […]

By Noreen -- 2 comments

July 15th, 2008

Tatted cord for broken shuttle necklace-the pattern

 
Yesterday, I posted a note about the tatted cord that I  have just designed. It’s  for a Lady Hoare tatting  shuttle that I made and broke… rats… so it became a necklace.
Here’s how I tatted the cord:

With a dental floss threader, thread a heap of ‘e’ beads onto the cone of Lion Brand Lamé  yarn.

The […]

By Noreen -- 12 comments

July 14th, 2008

Tatted cord for broken shuttle necklace

I just posted about the friendship bracelets that I tatted while I was in the design process for
this tatted cord:

I am really pleased with the cord. I wanted it to be simple and not too frou frou.
It’s light and really pleasant to wear.
I am going to make it up in other threads to see how […]

By Noreen -- 8 comments

July 14th, 2008

Tatted friendship bracelets

 
Last week, I carved a couple of tatting shuttles. One of them broke, and I turned it into a necklace 
Over the weekend, I took my tatting shuttle and cone of thread, and beads with me- everywhere!
I ended up tatting 2 friendship bracelets before I arrived at the cord for the necklace.

I’ve designed lots of tatted […]

By Noreen -- 1 comment

July 9th, 2008

Broken tatting shuttle recycled into necklace

Yesterday, I posted about carving a Lady Hoare tatting shuttle from recycled wood.

I broke one of the tatting shuttles

sigh.
I tossed it into the sawdust bucket for burning next winter.
Tammy suggested that I reclaim it and use it as an inkle shuttle.
I like my inkle shuttles to have straight sides, so it wouldn’t work for that…. […]

By Noreen -- 10 comments

June 18th, 2008

Blogiversary bracelets

Yesterday, I posted about the ‘Blogiversary Bracelets’ that
I made to celebrate my daughter, Chloë’s and my blogiversary of our blogging for 2 years for b5.
We drove to their house for dinner last night - through a storm of epic proportions. Whew!~ visibility at one point was zero. We had to pull off the road because […]

By Noreen -- 15 comments

June 17th, 2008

Recycled Wood Bracelets

Happy Blogiversary to us!
Happy Blogiversary to us!
Happy happy to us!
My daughter, Chloë Findlay-Harder of (Tangled Threads and Her Accessories  among others!) and I are both celebrating our 2 year Blogiversary at b5media.
To celebrate, I have made us each 2 recycled wood bracelets that I call: Recycled Ruffle Cuffs: I guess you could call them a […]

By Noreen -- 7 comments

May 31st, 2008

Faux turquoise spool knitted wire necklace

Last night, we had a wonderful time. A friend of ours, who is a musician, (he plays fiddle in my DH, Jim’s trio) had a birthday party. (How many times can you sing ‘Happy Birthday’ and how many ways can you make it totally unique? My favorite was when it spun off into a fabulous […]

By Noreen -- 4 comments

May 7th, 2008

Three doors down - 1- Jewelry and Beading

The Three Doors Down project on the Lifestyles Channel is under way! I am really enjoying this! (click on the link for an explanation)
My first ‘neighbour’, three doors down on the list of fellow Lifestyles bloggers at b5 is Cyndi at Jewelry & Beading.
Cyndi does a great job of finding really useful info […]

By Noreen -- 1 comment

April 25th, 2008

Contest - Crocheted Wire Butterfly Earrings-WINNER

Drumrolls please!
Tick tock… midnight mountain standard time Friday night I asked my husband to please call out a number between 1 and 219.
He thought for a moment, and then announced:
♦ 87!♦
TADAH!
So, the winner of my
Crocheted  Wire Butterfly Earrings contest is:
Pat(crochetsew) 
Who asked:
Is Friday here yet??
Well… Friday was a very good day, and Saturday is even better […]

By Noreen -- 10 comments