A few weeks ago, I begged him to puhleeeeeeeeeeeeeeze spend some time at the lathe for me… so, bless his heart, he picked up his chisels and started turning….. yay!

Ah, bliss….. I love having all that ‘blank canvas’ potential!

And here’s what I’ve been up to in betwixt and between meeting book deadlines…

A Fairy Door Mighty Mamma…..

There were 2 Homages  to Jane Austen, but one of them has already flown away.

This Jane Austen is wearing a blue cloak.

And, last but not least, this Mighty Mamma is going to be a Gnome’s garden….. when I have a chance to actually finish up the painting!

For now, the little Gnome Girl is looking longingly at her empty garden, wondering when it’s going to bloom?

Image Source: Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright 

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An ‘e’ friend of mine, Marian Clark, has the most extraordinary collection of spool knitters I have ever seen.

She fell in love with the Jane Austen with a purple cape Spool knitter and bought it. She also bought the -next-

Jane Austen, even though I was still working on it, and hadn’t photographed it yet!

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So, I am steaming along on new work that has got me just beside myself with excitement….. and I can’t say peep about it!

BUT, luckily, I am working on other things that I can chat away about like mad.

One of the things that I am sooooooooo excited about is our new series of Jane Austen Spool knitters.

Jim’s really busy these days, so he doesn’t have a lot of time at the lathe. I keep bugging him to puhleeeeeeeeze turn me another Jane Austen….. so in self defense, he’s squeezing in as much lathe time as he can.

Here’s the Jane Austen homage spool knitter that I just finished.  I take the pics of the spool knitters before I varnish them, as the varnish flashes so much that it messes up the pics.  This pic was taken late at night, so it doesn’t do her justice. But, I was so excited about her that I just had to put her pic up!

This one has our Jane Austen heroine wearing a lavender cape with the hood up….

And now…. I need Jim to turn another Jane Austen….. there are so many more I want to make…….

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I am just in seventh heaven.

PBS is having a Jane Austen extravaganza that has me completely blissed.

I’ve been a Jane Austen fanatic since I was 11 years old, and still have my first copy of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ that  started my addiction.

I’ve been working madly to deadline on new design work, so haven’t had time to get to the Jane Austen spool knitters that I have been languishing to start.

I met a pile of deadlines this week, so I took a breather, and finished up this first Homage to Jane Austen spool knitter.

I made a Jane Austen crochet hook a week or two back and posted about her

Ah, PBS…. thank you thank you!

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Anyhow, while the servers were down, and I couldn’t work on my blog, I finally got to work and pulled together all the pics of the new crochet hooks  that I have been carving.

I had kind of lost track of them! LOL!

I had to rummage around the studio to find them and get them organized and measured and photographed and photoshopped and finally up on my website.

(I have been neglecting my website because of focusing on blogworld, so when blogworld vanished, I was able to do some maintenance on my website. Hidden blessings!)

So, here’s a few pics of some of the new hooks I have been playing with:

My homage to Jane Austen and cats and dogs:

and heartfelt musings about home and hearth :

and another Snowman (we’re back into another blizzard! Oh! Will winter NEVER end?)

I have more blanks started, and since winter is such a drag, I will be finding respite in the workshop.  And that means….

more crochet hooks……..

And, oh yes, we’re also working on a series of new Jane Austen inspired spool knitters, too!

Can’t get enough of Jane!

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I have designed all kinds of dolls in homage to Jane Austen, including a :knitted Jane Austen doll:

Sooooooooooooo………

I am utterly ecstatic that PBS is running a series on Masterpiece theatre, showcasing all her novels.

Persuasion  was brilliant. Perfecto!  

Ditto for Northanger Abbey. In fact, it’s my least favorite of all her novels…. BUT, this interpretation was so good that I actually liked it! 

A L A S…… I thought Mansfield Park was a disaster! They totally blew it…. they made a hash of the screenplay, (Fanny didn’t get sent home?!?!?! EH?!) and missed out on great fun by down playing and minimizing Evil Auntie Norris.  And, excuse me, but Billie Piper was utterly and hopelessly miscast as Fanny.  Pituey.  I thought it stank.

A N Y H O W ! ! ! ! ! 

I am sooooooooooooooooo excited about 6 delicious weeks of Jane Austen telly that I have carved a homage to Jane Austen crochet hook! I turned it on the lathe, and am tickled pink with it.  It’s my second attempt. 

My first attempt did the exploding hook routine- kapowweeeeeeeeeeee!

but, the second one has me feeling happy.

Here she is:

Ah, Jane Austen, I’m your biggest fan…..

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