Hankering for Yarn

May 13th, 2008

Organize that yarn

I’ve been posting about organizing yarn stashes
Here’s one of my most favorite book cases. It’s GREAT for storing yarn and stashes:

We found it at a garage sale. For FREE! The lady who owned it reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally hated it. (I didn’t ask why).
On the second shelf, I have a heap of yarn in wire baskets from […]

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May 8th, 2008

Yarn Storage

A constant question for yarn aholics yarn afficianado’s is: ‘ACK!!!!!!!! My stash has eaten my house! HELP? ‘ um…. ‘How do I store my yarn so it’s easy to get to but out of sight of cats, dogs, friends and relations?’

Here are a few […]

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May 1st, 2008

Woven mixed media dolls - Links

Here are the links for my mixed media woven dolls:
Woven Earth Listener Angel  Doll
Dame Julian and Neni 
Three young spritely spirited mixed media dolls 
Mixed media dolls with found objects 
Tags: butterfly looms, carving doll heads, crafting with recycled materials, Creativity, designing dolls, dollmaking, dolls, eco projects, handspun yarn, how to make worry dolls, how to make […]

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May 1st, 2008

Woven mixed media dolls - 3

The previous entry had pics of my spritely mixed media dolls
Here are some more of my mixed media woven dolls:

A woven Menopause Fairy Doll
and a collection of my ‘Reclaiming Dolls’ (Dolls that have parts made from reclaimed, recycled or re-purposed components and found objects,  as well as weaving):

I’ve put together a Links posting so you […]

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May 1st, 2008

Woven mixed media dolls - 2

In my last posting, I showed pictures of my woven mixed media dolls, Neni and Homage to Dame Julian of Norwich.
These dolls are more whimsical:
I spun the yarn and then wove them on potholder looms and combined them will all kinds of mixed media: Leather, wood, stones, metal, wire, buttons and more….

Next posting:
More whimsical […]

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May 1st, 2008

Woven mixed media dolls - 1

Yesterday, I posted pics of my latest mixed media woven doll, the Earth Listener Angel Doll (click on the name to see her).
Several people asked if I had pics of any of my other woven mixed media dolls. Why yes! Here are some:

Homage to Dame Julian of Norwich. I wove her on […]

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April 30th, 2008

Woven “Earth Listener” Angel Doll

I’ve been working on weaving a new doll, and she is now finished.
I blogged about spinning the yarn for her, and making her head
I’ve decided that she is an ‘Earth Listener’ Angel Doll. She’s all about listening to what needs to happen next for our planet.
She’s made with many hand crafted and reclaimed components.
I’ve been […]

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April 24th, 2008

Spinning yarn to weave a doll

I am working on a new doll.
I’ve finished sculpting the head:

and have finished spinning the yarn for the doll:
My best friend gave me a bag of lovely merino/tencel:

That I spun on my wheel, then plyed with my navaho spindle:

I warped up the loom
and wove one panel that just didn’t do it for me,

So, I […]

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February 19th, 2008

Easiest EVER Knitted Angel

The ‘newspaper yarn’ has gone viral on the net…. everyone’s talking about it. Cyndi at Layers upon Layers has posted the link to it…. newspaper yarn
That inspired me to dig out my
‘Easiest Ever Knitted Angel’

that I had knitted from tissue paper that I spun with hand spindles.
I don’t like spinning tissue paper on […]

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