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Hankering for Yarn

May 8th, 2008

Butterfly Effects-Update on the Crocheted Lorenz Manifold

OH!!!!! I am just delighted! After reading my posting about Hinka Osinga’s spectacular crocheted model based on the mathematics of the Butterfly Effect,  Kristi found the actual pattern for it!
I’ll never have time to do it, but I love it that now I COULD!
Here’s the pattern URL: Crocheted Mathematics of Chaos Butterfly Model   by Hinka […]

By Noreen -- 3 comments

May 7th, 2008

Butterfly effects in crochet

Lately, there has been a lot of attention paid to crocheted mathematical models.

I am passionate about butterflies. I am constantly designing homages to them in crochet, weaving, knitting, (see yesterday’s entry for a knitted Butterfly Bag), spool knitting, tatting, sewing, you name it. The picture above is a butterfly that is part of a […]

By Noreen -- 1 comment

May 1st, 2008

Hey! I just won an award!

The Crochet Liberation Front on Ravelry awarded me their hookalicious award for kewl crochet for my earth friendly design for a crocheted market bag:

I love it that they GOT my pun: It’s a♥ GREEN ♥bag that’s all about ♥ loving the earth! ♥
I am tickled pink. When I was nominated for […]

By Noreen -- 12 comments

April 22nd, 2008

Inspiration - Green crafters

Earth Day is sooooooooo not over!
Hurrah! check out this absolutely terrific blog: Green Crafters
FANTASTIC!
Tags: environmental issues, green crafting, inspirationShare This

By Noreen -- 3 comments

April 22nd, 2008

Bamboo fabric and fiber - Bad news

For those of us who thought that bamboo was a ‘GREEN’ fiber, we need to think again…. sadly!
Read this article by Victoria Everman about the dark side of bamboo fiber….
Tags: bamboo fiber and fabric, environmental issues, green fabrics, Victoria EvermanShare This

By Noreen -- 7 comments

April 6th, 2008

Lace Fence

Synchronicity is amazing.
I was just reading about the common root of two opposing words:
Hospitality vs Hostility
and then the link for this amazing and beautiful piece of work was sent to a list that I belong to:
Lace Fence 
I am awestruck by the lace fence. As a lacemaker, I KNOW how incredibly difficult creating the lace fence […]

By Noreen -- 0 comments