I am so pleased!
The newest offering from Straight From the Designer’s Hip group has just been released.
It’s Strapped for Bags Volume 3,which can be seen and ordered at Ravelry or at
Straight From the Designer’s Hip
It includes my design for a very cute little  crocheted copper wire bag.
When I was thinking about the bag that I wanted to design for the book,
it was important to me to come up with a unique and fun little bag that would
be an invitation for the readers to try something new.
I love crocheting wire and have made lots of jewelry with it,
so it was the …read more

Here is the link for the pattern for the earflap style baby cap that I designed for the Knit One, Save One campaign for the Save the children fund:  Baby Cap
Image source: Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright

My daughter, Chloë, has just posted the most heartmelting entry on her blog. (click the link below to see her pics)
She has written about what it has been like for her to do the sewing of the memorial textiles (called antependia) that we have co-created in memory of her Nana, my precious mother in law….. we both found it to be very stirring to put huge effort into creating a loving memorial to a marvelous woman who was central in our lives.
Here’s her entry: Chloë  and the memorial textiles
Here’s what I wrote about this process:
1] Starting the weaving 
2] a not …read more

 
Some of the intricacies of bloggery leave me scratching my head. When my CE (channel editor) told the Lifestyles gang that we oughta write ‘about me’ stuff to link to on our blogs,  I went,
‘eh?’  (in true Canadian fashion)
Luckily, my clever daughter was able to explain to me, in small words that I could write on my little stickie pad, how to do it.

So, I’ve done it!
I’ve written an ‘about Hankering for yarn and Noreenski’ page!  The link
Such a clever durl!  ROTFLOL!
By the way, the photo of my puppet  at the top of the page was taken byAlan & Terri …read more

Karen over at ThriftyMommy
is organizing a ‘top 50′ carnival and invited her fellow b5 bloggers to join her .
My first response was: Not on your life! I don’t have 50 seconds to spare, let alone 50 neurons to fire off for 50 synapses! LOL!
But then, it struck me, I have no idea how many books I’ve got work in….I might as well see how close I get to 50…….
Let’s see….
1] Why not start with the 3 books that I published with Krause books? So, Number one is:

Soul Mate Dolls: Dollmaking as a …read more