Playing Hookie
February 8, 2008 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under yarn crafts
When I was a kid, and someone would skip classes, they were said to be ‘playing hookie’. Do they still say that?
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 …read more
Carving a Jane Austen crochet hook
February 2, 2008 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under Creativity, crochet
I am a total Jane Austen freak. I got addicted to Jane Austen when I was 11 years old, and I have re-read her novels hundreds of times. I still have my first copy of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ that I bought from the book club at school.
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 …read more
