Hankering for Yarn

July 24th, 2008

Invitation to join the Crochet Games of Ancient Greece challenge

Amy and Donna over at Crochetville have started a fun challenge.
It’s the 2008 Crochet Games of Ancient Greece Challenge.  It’s an invitation to challenge yourself to create a work of crochet that will be a challenge for you to complete from the opening to closing of the Olympic games in Bejing.
At first, I thought…. there […]

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July 5th, 2008

Tattted and crocheted butterfly shawl - yarn

I posted about these little tatted butterflies . I have been making them for the red shawl that I am working on for workshops I am teaching in the fall.
I noticed as I was photoshopping the pics that the butterfly wasn’t one of the new and revised ones. Ah well, the pics are […]

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June 28th, 2008

Tatted and Crocheted shawl- new butterfly

I’ve been working away on a crocheted and tatted freeform lace butterfly shawl.
It’s been frustrating and challenging, because it just hasn’t been going the way I thought it should.
But! I have had a couple of breakthroughs that I am really pleased about.
The first is that I have finally settled on the thread that I am […]

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June 28th, 2008

What motifs move you?

On one of the email groups that I belong to, someone posed an interesting question about color combinations that really captivate us.  This made me think about the red shawl that I am working on… which is all about butterflies.
Which brought up for me that butterflies are, hands down, hooks up, my most beloved design […]

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June 27th, 2008

Crocheting in public then frogging at home

 Yesterday, my husband’s jazz trio was playing at an outdoor art and design festival:

That’s my Beloved in  the green shirt.  Look at the sky through the scrim of the stage behind them……
When they started playing (and they were FABULOUS!) the sky was slightly overcast, but it was warm and pleasant.
BUT, as they began their second […]

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June 24th, 2008

Tatted and Crocheted shawl

In September, I’ll be teaching workshops in Portland OR at the Knit and Crochet Show
One of the demo pieces that I am making for several of the classes is a red ‘Butterfly’ freeform lace shawl that combines tatting and crochet…..
as it moves along, I’ll post more pics. This is the first…..
And here’s the  […]

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July 4th, 2006

The Crocheted Butterfly Shawl goes to the wedding after all!

I am tickled pink!
My daughter has decided that the Crocheted Butterfly Shawl will work for her wedding ensemble after all!
I have ordered the silk bricks and will soon be spinning up a storm. Hmmm. I think that this may call for a second Royale Hare Spindle……….
If you scroll down the page, you’ll get the full […]

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