One of life’s great pleasures is to be found in mastering techniques that may be simple, but take practice. One of those very useful and satisfying skills is winding a center pull ball of yarn on the nostepinne. I like to wind a ball of yarn on the nostepinne in 2 stages. Here’s a little [...]
Entries from March 2010
March 29, 2010
New Video Tutorial for how to weave a rectangle on potholder loom
Potholder looms may be square, but! you don’t have to just weave squares on them!! I have figured out ways of weaving other shapes, too. Last week, I decided to make a video of how to weave rectangles on the potholder loom. We were in the middle of a nasty springtime cold snap. March was [...]
March 28, 2010
Sherry Pence, Lady Shuttlemaker
Sherry Pence is one of the most adored artisans in the tatting world. She is also known as Lady Shuttlemaker because of the glorious tatting shuttles that she makes. I interviewed her about a year ago, but the blog that the interview appeared on is now kaput, and so Sherry has given permission to post [...]
March 27, 2010
Artsy Blogger Links for March 27 2010
Did you remember that this evening at 8:30 it’s ‘Earth Hour’ ? (Link) We usually schedule a candlelight dinner and Scrabble by candlelight in honour of Earth Hour. What do you do? This week, as always, the Artsy Bloggers have some fun links for you: Beading Arts Does the beginning of spring lift your spirits? [...]
March 24, 2010
New video tutorial- how to weave with yarn on potholder loom
How long can it take to make a 10 minute video? LOL…. all day! First of all…. you need to plot out how many looms you need to have on the go, and then get them set up so they can be grabbed quick like a bunny to keep the video flowing. This means that [...]
March 22, 2010
Celebrate Springtime with adorable doodled paper eggs
I love making little presents that I can just pop in an envelope and mail to family and friends. Yesterday, I had a flash of inspiration…. well, really it was several flashes of inspiration that came together ever so nicely! Lately, I have been blogging about doodling, Link and Link , so that’s kind of [...]
March 21, 2010
And the winners of The Woven Bag books are….
Oh my goodness…. it was so hard to choose the winners of the Woven Bag books! In fact, it was so hard that I actually ended up choosing a consolation prize winner as well as the 2 book winners. So…. who won the books? Nina and Perry. Who won the consolation prize? Sandie (a pdf [...]
March 20, 2010
Artsy Bloggers Roundup March 20 2010
This week has been a really busy one for me, as I change gears and make the transitions from blogging at hankering, to getting Tottie Talks crafts going, as well as promoting ‘The Woven Bag’ and working on new designs for the next book. It means that I have got a lot of plates spinning [...]
March 18, 2010
Out takes from The Woven Bag
Yesterday, I posted pics of some of the bags that a reader said she really liked (after I posted pics of bags that she didn’t like) Link to yesterday’s post: Link I also said that I would share a few bloopers with you. Well… I don’t know if this qualifies as a blooper, but [...]
March 17, 2010
Show us some more bags she said
Last week, I got the nicest letter from a lady. She said that she had pre-ordered a copy of The Woven Bag…. BUT…. When I showed some pics of a few of the bags on the late hankering blog, she didn’t like them. So…. she canceled her order. Eegads and little fish! THAT’s not good! [...]
