and yet….

doll and photo by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright

somehow….

it filled you with delight….. just to be alive?

A few years ago, I was working away in my studio, and was in a state of pure enjoyment,

as ideas were flowing and projects were just chugging along and everything felt

wonderful!

I grabbed my sketchbook and made some quick drawings of how I felt about the lusciousness of a day of happy work and feeling blessed.  Then, I made a doll-

that was the first of many, many variations on the drawings. The photo to the right is a pic of the first ‘joy’ doll…..

Those drawings have become the basis of a whole series of  joy based cloth dolls,

paper dolls, wooden dolls, spool knitters,crochet hooks and all manner of other things.

Ah, joy……

Which brings me to today’s pictures for the Faces of Joy pictures…..

Chrissy left a comment in one of the previous entries in the Face of Joy Challenge, leaving a link to her entry in the Challenge.

Chrissy’s face of joy is made in socks!  Fun!

Nancy sent me a pic of her husband looking quite bemused in a rather grumpy looking hat….. since she didn’t tell her hubby that his pic had been sent off to a blog…. I cropped to just the hat:

Nancy's hat copyright

and, then I turned the grumpy little mouth upside down to make it somewhat more joyful…..

Nancy's hat smiling

And Caroline has joined in with  her Face of Joy, which has taken wing!

Caroline's yellow bird (copyright)

There are an infinite number of ways of expressing the face of joy….. Thanks Chrissy, Nancy and Caroline for sharing your faces of Joy!

I look forward to seeing more faces of joy……

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Tottie Tomato began her life here on hankering for yarn.

And, she’s undergone all manner of transformations.

Such a busy life for a little tomato!

She now has her own blog in which she and I share our love for spool knitting, crochet, tatting, knitting, small loom weaving, sewing, doll making, puppets, wood working, recycling and eco crafts, to name just a few.

She’s just getting started, but do check her out: Tottie Tomato

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My old binding machine has met the end of it’s days….

A few years ago, I broke off one of the handles when the machine got all hung up…. and now….

sob…. the blasted thing has totally, irrevocably siezed up, while eating one of ‘Our Lady of the Hours’.

How rude.

We both have had serious ‘go’s at it, and we have finally declaared it to be kaput. Defunct. Schmucked.

Ah, the perils of self publishing…..  sigh.

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Ah well, today, May 5, is still cause for celebration. It’s Children’s  Day in Japan.  (Used to be Boy’s Hero Day, but now it’s more family oriented)

So, even though I missed the Doll Day festivities  (note to self: March 3! March 3! March 3!), I figured that Children’s Day is still cause for  Celebration on Hankering for Yarn!

There are a million ways of having fun with yarn and kids on Children’s Day:

click  on “potholder Loom Weaving’ in the categories at the right hand side of the page, and all kinds of great fun will unfold for you!

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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 can catch the group of postings on mixed media woven dolls.

Hmm, it just struck me that they are like three dimensional collages. Neat!

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I’ll be teaching:

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  Sept 11 @ 2 pm – Butterfly Shawl pin

Sept 13 @ 9 am – Building Butterflies: How to make one of a kind
butterflies with crochet, knitting, etc

  Sept 14 @ 9 am – Sculptural Crochet Boxes Baskets and Bowls

You can see the pics and full descriptions that go with the workshops by clicking on my website: workshops

For information about the Knit and crochet conference go to:

The Knit and Crochet website

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