Of course, I couldn’t stop at just one bracelet…
so I made a second one:

Because I had a plan…. bangle bracelets look better when there are more than one….
(BTW, the flash does nasty things to the bracelets…. in real life, they look smooth and kind of irridescent. The flash seems to expose their undies. How rude!)
AND, because I love Furoshiki.
What’s  Furoshiki?
It’s an ancient and elegant Japanese solution to carrying things in the greenest possible way.
Here’s a link: FUROSHIKI
I’ve impressed the heck out of all kinds of people by whipping a headscarf out of my purse and tying a couple of knots …read more

My husband’s dad built a desk when my husband was a wee little guy. Sadly, the desk fell apart last winter. BUT!
The desk lives on in all manner of ways!
I have made bag handles and a heap of bracelets from the bottoms of the drawers.
And, today, I made myself another ‘Lady Hoare’ (I pronounce it Lady Harr, as the other possible pronounciations are slightly ‘ahem’-ish) tatting shuttle:

The Lady Hoare style of tatting shuttle is a very old version of shuttle and I absolutely love it. It’s my favorite style of tatting shuttle.
Why? Because it allows me to load it …read more

 
We have a wasp problem, and don’t want to use pesticides to kill them. Well, actually, we don’t really even want to kill the rotten little beasties…. they are part of the grand plan of nature, after all. We just don’t want the little stinkers to set up shop around our house, barn, hayshed, tool shed, garage or the farm machines. Is that too much to ask? LOL!
So, I designed a pattern for a fake wasp nest to trick them into to bugging off somewhere else.
So far, the crocheted wasp nests seem to be working! The deck has been wonderfully …read more

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 Osinga and Bernd Krauskopf

thanks so much, Kristi! Wheeeeeeeeeee!

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 a Fabbie award, I made myself a trophy.
I figured that I always celebrate with a really great cuppa tea (green chai perhaps?) so why not carve myself a crochet hook with a teacup on it? Makes sense to me.
So here’s my award to me… …read more

Earth Day is sooooooooo not over!
Hurrah! check out this absolutely terrific blog: Green Crafters
FANTASTIC!

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….

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 had to have been. The technical virtuosity is stunning.  It took a great deal of power to manipulate the wire to create the lace on that scale.
But, the metaphor behind it is  equally, or perhaps even more powerful.  It’s a potent reminder that we really …read more