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Archive for the ‘spoolknitting tutorial’ Category

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 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 17th, 2008

Spool knitted Kittycat Bookmark- Links

The Introduction
Part 1: The Tail
Part 2: The Body
Part 3: The face
One thing lead to another, and before I knew it, I was designing and making a Springtime Bunny Rabbit!
Here’s the link:  Springtime Rabbit Pin 
 
This Spool knitted Kittycat bookmark is an original Noreen Crone-Findlay design and is copyright.
(Please send people the Url to […]

By Noreen -- 14 comments

December 1st, 2007

Contest- Win a handmade Crochet Hook

I carved this crochet hook (one of our ‘Gulliver Crochet Hooks’) specially as a thank you to my blog readers.
He’s an 8 mm (size ‘L’) hook, and is approx. 5 1/2 inches tall, not including his hat. His hat works as a hanger, so he doubles as an ornament too. Right now, he’s hanging […]

By Noreen -- 239 comments

November 20th, 2007

Holiday crafting ideas at Hankering for yarn

Let’s start off my Holiday gift links list with a gift for you:
A contest to win a one of a kind art hand carved snowman crochet hook: snowman crochet hook

Now, links for making small but wonderful gifts:
How to make a bead doll
and, how to make an adjustable spool knitted cord for the bead doll.
Wonderful, […]

By Noreen -- 1 comment

October 18th, 2007

How to make a 2 color Spoolknitted cord necklace - part 2

The first part of this tutorial is at: Spoolie Cord necklace 1
Roll the last 5 inches up at each end of the cord.
Stitch in place, then weave in the ends and trim:

Fold the cord in 1/2 and pull the fold up through the center of the spoolknitter.
Slide the spoolknitter down to the 2 loops. They […]

By Noreen -- 6 comments

August 29th, 2007

How to spoolknit video

Earlier in the month, my son and I spent the day shooting tutorial videos.
He started editing them and was making great progress.
Can you feel the rumbles of doom starting to shake in the distance? Cue the rumbles of doom……
Yep. Boom. Crash. The ‘Crash’ was his computer. Ack!
Wailie wailie!
But now after much gnashing and fashing, his […]

By Noreen -- 12 comments