Flower loom blossoms and freeform crochet
November 6, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under crochet, doll and dolls and dollmaking, eco projects & green projects & recycling craft, flower maker, handmade, small loom weaving, tatting, weaving and handweaving and looms
I’ve been posting about flower looms lately, because a dear friend sent me a box of flower and magic looms.
The flowers from
flower looms work
beautifully in combination
with crochet.
I quite like using
unusual yarns with
the flower looms.
This is slubbly quite
hefty silk handspun
in a shawl.
Here are a
bunch of flower loom
flowers in another
shawl- also all
made in handspun yarns.
The rainbow flower
was made with
spool knitted cord
on a flower loom.
The white flower
was made with chained
yarn…..
so you can really play with
your yarn before you use it
with a flower loom.
What are those flowers part of?
Well…
a wild and wonderful
freeform crocheted, spool knitted,
tatted, woven, sewn, sculpted
doll made with all manner of
found objects.
Yes…. …read more
Oh that wasn’t good-death of a yarn gadget
September 9, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under miscellaneous
Oh oh… I had a sad thing happen in the studio today. A much loved vintage yarnie gadget met it’s demise.
It’s my brass Crazy Daisy loom.
I have had this little loomie
since I was a teenager,
which was a very long time ago!
I assumed, that, since it was
brass, that it was sturdy.
Alas, I was wrong….
Now, it was sturdy enough
to rattle along with me
for lo these many years,
but it wasn’t sturdy enough
to stand up to me abusing it with
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too tight yarn today.
Oh, woe is me! Poor little Crazy Daisy! One little wire squinched over, and that was the beginning of the end.
Now, …read more
