Wrapping up a little history-ruler shuttles
September 10, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under eco projects & green projects & recycling craft, weaving and handweaving and looms
We have a new entry on our ’search list’ for when we are noodling through thrift shops and garage sales: Old wooden rulers.
I have fallen madly in love with netting style shuttles and am having a wonderful time upcycling old rulers into shuttles.
Today, I needed to take a little break.
So, I grabbed a couple of the
old wooden rulers that we have
found in our recent travels.
As I was working on carving
the old rulers into shuttles,
I noticed something…
The 2 lower shuttles in the
photo at the left
came from a ruler that
just has inches.
The 2 shuttles at the top of the pic came from …read more
Learning the lathe-turning crochet hooks
January 30, 2008 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under yarn crafts
Woohoo!
I am so excited!
For the past year or so, I have been carving all the one of a kind handmade crochet hooks I make without having Jim turn them on the lathe.
It struck me that I should probably learn how to use the lathe to shape the length of the hook. I figured that it might save some time….. so I asked Jim to show me how to do it.
At first, I was very timid in my approach, but soon, I was just having a whirlietwirlie happydancing time!
OH! this is BLISS!
I am totally addicted to woodworking….. well that’s not quite …read more
