Hankering for Yarn

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 […]

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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 […]

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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…. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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April 20th, 2008

Contest - Crocheted Wire Butterfly Earrings

It’s been awhile since I had a contest on hankering for yarn!
Even though it’s suddenly winter again where I live, I figure that we ought to be celebrating BUTTERFLIES!
So, I have designed and crocheted copper wire
B U T T E R F L Y Earrings:

The contest to win the crocheted […]

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April 5th, 2008

Inspiration- Fabulous Felted Necklaces

Omigosh! Look at these!

Aren’t these wonderful? They are necklaces that my oh so brilliant daughter, Chloë Findlay-Harder, has designed and made, combining felted cords with beads. I love love love these necklaces.
Chloë has given me permission to upload her pics and to link to the original source, which is her etsy store. […]

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February 1st, 2008

Wear your shuttle

My clever son-in-law just made my daughter the most wonderful bracelet.
It’s a copper bracelet that he made by tweaking the design for the wonderful shuttles that he makes.
Shuttle bracelet 
I would HAPPILY wear one or ten of those.
ahem.
ahem.
Tags: bracelet, handmade jewelry, inspiration, shuttle, wearable art

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