Hankering for Yarn

April 24th, 2008

Journey Loom-1

I am so pleased! My new Journey Loom has arrived!

The Journey loom is a lovely small frame/tapesty style loom that was designed by Susan Barrett Merrill. The loom came to her in a dream and she’s been working with her husband to create it in many ways for a number of years.
The first thing […]

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March 25th, 2008

Knitted Lily Doll

The oddest thing happened with one of my knitted doll designs…..
One of my most favorite designs is for a doll I named Lily.

The pattern for Lily sold really well. I kept having to reprint her, but then a strange thing happened.  The masters for the pattern simply disappeared! pooft!
Vanished.
I ripped the studio apart…. no Lily […]

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March 25th, 2008

Knitted Esperanza Doll

Yay! I have finally finished the PDF for the Knitted Esperanza Doll. I’m doing the happy dance. :o)
I’ve been working on this PDF for ages. But, you know how it goes….. deadlines and a million other things come up, and things get pushed to the edges until they fall off the […]

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August 27th, 2006

Making Doll Shoes:Full circle in dollmaking

Photo copyright Noreen Crone-Findlay
Last week, my husband, Jim and I were vendors at a gathering of handspinners. (Oh! what lovely energy to be in the same room with all those wheels and the occaisional spindle, spin spin spinning!).
In the same building, there was a gallery, and so, gallery visitors drifted through the spinner’s gathering. […]

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