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 19th, 2008

Inspiration- Myra Wood teaching in Peru

One of my freeform crochet buddies, Mel, sent me a note this morning. She was giving me the heads up on a fabulous travelling workshop that is happening next summer in Peru.
Mel was sharing  some neat news about our friend, Myra Wood, who is a gifted designer and author non pareill as well as […]

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July 18th, 2008

Tatted and Crocheted Lace Pouch

I have had a life long love affair with lace making.
I started making lace when I was a little girl, when one of my grandmother’s friends taught me how to knit lace. She showed me that wrapping the needle with the yarn made holes and that I could figure out how to make wonderful things […]

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July 12th, 2008

Brilliant! Robyn Chachula’s linked crochet stitches

Robyn Chachula (click her name for her website)
(aka Crochet by Faye) (click that last link for her blog)   is one classy, clever woman who happens to be a very gifted crochet designer as well as a structural engineer.
Her gorgeous ‘Bubble Belt’ is part of the nifty Belts Book
that I also contributed to.
Robyn has come […]

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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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July 3rd, 2008

Summertime fun - finger puppets

Looking for quick and easy summertime fun for kids?

Crochet them some Friendship Finger Puppets!
Here’s the link to my pattern: Friendship Finger Puppets 
Image Source: Noreen Crone-Findlay (c)
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July 3rd, 2008

Inspiration: Crocheted greyhounds

We have a wonderful rescued greyhound that we absolutely adore.

So, imagine my delight when I discovered this incredibly neat website: Crochet greyhounds!
Quirky, fun and oh so sleek!
Image source: Noreen Crone-Findlay(copyright) 
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June 29th, 2008

Autumn Leaves Belt

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, […]

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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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