New Year: New adventures: New hooks, new lamb, new butterfly
January 15, 2007 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under crochet, doll and dolls and dollmaking
The theme of this month’s artist showcase on b5 is about what is new.
Tammy is hosting it, so if you would like to check out what the rest of the crafts channel is up to, please click on: January b5 artists showcase
This has set me thinking about ‘new things’.
One of the really fun new things that is happening for me is our Gulliver Crochet Hooks. Jim and I are now making one of a kind, large crochet hooks that are part wooden doll, part large crochet hook. You can see them by clicking on:
(well, the gremlins keep eating my links, so if it’s not clicking for you,send me an email and I’ll send you the link)
And, the Gulliver crochet hooks inspired me to act a suggestion that my friend, Gwen Blakely Kinsler
made a few years ago.
It’s the ‘The Sisterhood of the Travelling Crochet Hook’, which is all about where we take our crochet and where our crochet takes us, in body, mind and spirit. (see previous blog entries about it, and please join in!)
Another new and exciting thing for me this year, is that our daughter and our son are both getting married.
And, BOTH weddings are this summer!
YOICKS! I am thrilled, but also totally twitterpated about it, as I have so much sewing, spinning, weaving, knitting, crocheting and tatting to get done in a VERY short time. (While also earning a living as a designer and writer and workshop presenter, oh my!)
So, to represent these new things in my life, I have designed some new things for this showcase:
3 Gulliver hooks: The Gulliver hooks have evolved. At first, I was carving the hooks to be 25 mm. Then, Jim turned me some slightly smaller blanks, and I really liked the smaller, 19 mm size. Still big enough to give me a good ‘canvas’ for sculpting, painting and burning the dolls on them, but a more comfortable size for crocheting.
Working at such a large scale is new to me. I have always been enchanted by working really really small.Often, participants in workshops want to know how big they can go with their projects. Well, now the answer is: BIG! 
And, because baby lambs will soon have their springie little feet on the ground, I decided that in honour of this showcase, I would use one of our Gulliver Crochet Hooks to crochet a lamb with roving. I used the pattern for ‘Lambie’ from my book, CROCHETED FUR AND FEATHER KIDS
which you can see (and order) by clicking on the title, or if the link isn’t working [grrrr] email me.
I crocheted the lamb with a Gulliver crochet hook that is about 15 mm, using unspun roving, a combination of commercial yarns (Caron Simply Soft and Bliss) and rug yarn.
This is one BIG lamb! She’s tall! (29 inches!) A real armful of springtime cuddles
AND, finally, in honour of the upcoming weddings, (and this showcase) I have designed this
Super Simple Crocheted Butterfly:
I’ll be posting the instructions on how to crochet it tomorrow, so you may want to hit the subscribe button up on the toolbar.
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I hope that 2007 will be a year of lovely new things for you, and that it is full of creativity, peace, harmony, good health and delight !
hugs all round,
Noreen
