Sorry, but the contest to win 1 of 2 copies of my new book, The Woven Bag, has now closed….
copyright Noreen Crone-Findlay
My publisher’s (F&W Media, the parent
company of Krause Books),
were wonderfully generous
in sponsoring a contest
to give away 2 copies of
my scrumptious new book:
T W O of my beloved readers have been blessed with a copy of ‘The Woven Bag’.
Let me tell you a bit about the book: There are 35 or so bags in ‘The Woven Bag’ , and they are all woven on small looms.
Just because the looms are small doesn’t mean that the bags have to be, though…. the bags range in size from tiny to substantial.
The projects are all portable, and affordable and range in difficulty from totally simple to challenging.
The looms used in the book are all very affordable- in fact, there’s even a no cost loom. 
By the way, in answer to a couple of questions that people ask frequently:
Yes, I designed all the bags in the book, and yes, I wove them all myself.
I was asked another very good question, and that is: Where can you buy ‘The Woven Bag’?
Here’s a link to Craftivity: Order, but you can also order it from many online weaving shops, and from all book vendors, or ask your local bookstore to bring in a copy for you.
46 Comments
March 5, 2010 at 11:50 pm
I already have my copy, so please don’t enter me in the drawing. It is wonderful! I’m so glad to have it. Now all I have to do is clean my sewing room so that I can find my yarn! The looms are close at hand.
March 6, 2010 at 12:36 am
Noreen, I love your imagination and creativity, I have your doll book, and one of your dolls from that book, which I treasure greatly. I have dabbled in weaving, but oh so much to learn. I look forward to your book, if I am not chosen to be blessed with one of these books, you know I will just have to hunt one down. Hope to see you in NH this year, then maybe you will autopgraph the book for me, I would be so honored.
Hugs, Grace
March 6, 2010 at 2:20 am
Wow – I’m just discovering your blog and your book. It looks great. I love to weave, and I am already thinking up projects to work on with my nieces when they visit this summer. I think bags would be great for them because they’re from a warm climate. This book could help make our time together even more fun.
Sue
March 6, 2010 at 8:31 am
I’ve dusted off the Dorothy Leclerc 4 harness loom my husband bought me for Christmas. IN 1990! I did one project when I first got it and then left it buried in the laundry room. Somehow it was 2006 before I touched it again. I made a few scarves & a pillow before hiding it once more. For the last 3 months I’ve been weaving fabric to make bags!! I’ve been designing them by “make-it-up-as-I-go” method and would LOVE to see some new ideas to keep me motivated. And to keep Dorothy out of solitary confinement. My biggest problem seems to have been “what yarn” it’s okay to weave with. My new mindset is it’s okay to weave with ANYTHING until proven otherwise. I’ve made a few unwise choices and this time counted them as a learning curve instead of quitting.
(And I’ll be begging my library to add this one to their collection as well!)
March 6, 2010 at 1:49 pm
I followed a link from mixedmediaartist.com to your blog and learned of your book. I am a visual arts teacher in a public secondary school in rural NC; one of the classes I teach is Appalachian Arts and Culture. In this class we do a fiber unit during which my students learn to spin wool, dye using local plants, and do a simple weaving project using the yarn they create. You can check out some of the things we have done in the past on my blogsite. I am continually on the lookout for resources and ideas for their weaving projects, and this book sounds like a real winner. I hope I am as well!
March 6, 2010 at 2:10 pm
Thank you for the chance to win. Your designs are always wonderful.
I’m glad I found you here and sorry about Hankering for Yarn. You’re easy to locate because you use your full name on your blogs. Thank goodness for Google!
I’ve followed your blogs for years and don’t want to lose you
March 10, 2010 at 2:37 pm
I’m new to weaving on small looms. I am open totally to new methods and patterns. I would love to have a copy of your book. thanks for the opportunity.
March 6, 2010 at 10:51 pm
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March 7, 2010 at 2:34 am
this book is the second recent birth in your family. in both case we have been informed on time: “Chloe and my dear son in law are expecting, we are going to be grand parents (not your exact words but close enough”. then we had to go through the set back : “due to the financial situation my editor has postponed my book”. we saw the final results: “James has arrived, we are blessed”, “I am proofreading my book and it looks great”. it is now obvious that we have two solutions: you send James via the post. would I be that cruel and take this bundle of joy away from your family, knowing that it is the first baby in your close family? of course no!!! however, I know for a fact (having plenty of them on my shelf) that it is not your first book and that you could spare one for me. deep down you know this is the best bargain you have been offered….
March 7, 2010 at 7:27 pm
Your book sounds wonderful. I just found you from a link on you-tube. Watched the video on weaving a triangle with a potholder loom. What a great idea, not to mention your presentation was very clear. I demo spinning and weaving and people always ask, how can I try weaving without a big expense. There is a small loom in the $100-$150 range but thats a little pricey . What a great idea to use a small loom, and many people already have the potholder loom (or Grandma has an old one that she has been keeping).Now there is a book that goes along with the small loom. Kudos for such a great idea. Eager to see the book.
Mickey
March 8, 2010 at 6:20 pm
Thank goodness we all know how to find you, Hankering or not.
I just learned to weave this past fall. I bought a 15″ rigid heddle loom, and then figured I’d better take a class to learn how to use it.
Seems like I’m always putting the cart before the horse on learning things.
So… since I don’t have a small loom, it seems to me that I need a copy of your book so that I’ll make/get a small loom and then learn how to use it with your projects!
March 8, 2010 at 8:22 pm
I would love your woven bag book for several reasons.
First, it’s bound to have some great ideas.
Second, I can no longer warp my big loom, so I’m playing with various smaller ones and can use any available new ideas and inspirations about what can be done with them.
And third, I have a slew of grands, half-, step-, almost-, and wannabe grands, some of whom are now old enough (or young enough–the 18- & 21- year old are off on other pursuits–sigh)to be excited about doing this sort of thing with Oma Leslie.
So I’d love to win the book.
I’m also happy to see you & Tottie again, and have actually got a blog of my own up and running–you can check it out at the URL above. Thanks for doing this!
March 8, 2010 at 8:24 pm
Perry, a 15″ rigid heddle loom IS a small loom.
March 11, 2010 at 5:45 am
True, but not a small as in potholder-size hand loom.
March 8, 2010 at 11:15 pm
i would love to have a copy of this book–1–because I could manage a small loom 2–book will never make it over here otherwise–3–love your designs–by the way these are not necessarily in order of importance.
March 9, 2010 at 12:32 am
Your book looks great. I have done a little weaving on triangle looms and this looks like something new that I would like.
March 9, 2010 at 5:26 am
your book is so timely for me! I’ve just finished creating my new craft room which meant finding & gathering together all my stash! So, I’m thinking it would take me years to work thru alllllll this yarn which caused me to think “WEAVING” – that could be a GREAT way to use stash! And I too am a bag-a-holic, so what a wonderfully coincidental giveaway you’re providing! I WOULD LOVE TO BE A WINNER!
March 9, 2010 at 8:31 am
I think you have some amazing ideas. I love to weave, enjoy small looms and love bags, so the book seems like a perfect fit for me. Please put my name in.
March 9, 2010 at 10:21 am
Weaving on the Horizon. . .
It doesn’t seem possible that I began a few months ago with a potholder loom and have taken the plunge for my first tabletop loom.
Possible projects are endless and I will put the book to good use.
March 10, 2010 at 6:45 am
Hi!
I do already have a copy of your fantastic book, but should I be lucky and win a second copy, then someone I know is going to get a fab gift!!!
Fingers crossed!
March 10, 2010 at 9:10 pm
i have just been introduced to your book and I love bags! So I would love to win a copy of your books. thanks for this chance!
March 11, 2010 at 1:21 am
I’d love to be entered into the drawing for this book – and how’s this to make you cry? I don’t even have a loom yet! I’m experimenting with one on loan from a friend that I fear will need to be given back soon..but until it does I want to learn as much as I can and then I’ll have to save up for one of my own!
March 12, 2010 at 2:30 pm
It was a few months ago when I was introduced to the weaving world of looms through Raverly and wish I had found out about weaving looms ( rigid heedle) a long time ago before my hands had became ridden and painful with RA . Then I have discovered the weavette, pot holder, and HazelRose Looms and that open a door for me into actual weaving on a loom for it has satisfied my need to learn to weave even on a small hand held loom. Then you came out with a book about weaving on small looms which I’m hoping to be the lucky winner of. A woman can still have her dreams.
March 12, 2010 at 10:20 pm
Just found you through Lion Brand’s newsletter. Love your site and your work. I love making beautiful items out of simple, inexpensive things. Your amazing creativity is inspiring. Can’t wait to call my Mom and have her ship me my childhood potholder loom, and dive into my mound of yarn stash. So I’ll definitely need some gorgeous patterns to get me started! Thanks for the chance to win your book.
March 13, 2010 at 10:53 am
Ok, it makes ME cry to think that I haven’t done any weaving since the early 80′s. I am (was) a mostly tapestry weaver and taught the craft in a small gallery as my VERY first job out of college. I have been dying to find an entry back into weaving searching rav for a nice small loom, and your book looks like the ticket. I find smaller projects offer the immediate gratification I need to keep on going right now working on knitting and crocheting, but I am a WEAVER at heart! Your book will be the launchpad!
March 13, 2010 at 11:29 am
I am a returning weaver — having tried in various ways for over thirty years! I was looking for some inspiration (ala the name of the blog I co-write with my daughter) and I found some in your writing and I hope with your book too.
(~also send my one of yours, and i’ll send you one of mine?! 365 Ways to Relax Mind, Body, and Soul OR How To Sleep Soundly Tonight).
Happy spring!
March 13, 2010 at 1:15 pm
I am interested in learning to weave and think this would be a great book.
March 13, 2010 at 2:18 pm
i’m into crafts would love to win this
mverno@roadrunner.com
March 13, 2010 at 5:53 pm
I have a small loom and would love to make something with it
March 13, 2010 at 7:15 pm
I’m so excited because I just won on shopgoodwill.com a vintage Loop Craft red metal weaving loom like I had when I was a little girl (a very LONG time ago). I would love to win one of your books so I can start making some awesome tote bags for my present (and in-the-future) knitting projects with all the yummy acrylic and hand painted wool yarn that I’m hoarding!! It was fate that I discovered this contest the day I received the loom. It even has the original instructions!! Boy, does this bring back memories.
March 13, 2010 at 8:08 pm
Weaving seems to be coming into my life. I discovered a small lap loom I found in a second-hand store. I started weaving on it, but haven’t figured out how to remove the weaving.
My mother got me an issue to Mary Jane’s Farm Journal and they had a garden loom in there. basically you build a simple loom, tho about 6 feet tall and use twine to string it. Then weave it with material, flowers from the garden, anything you want, and leave it to attract butterflies and such. Next year you can start over again.
Anyway, weaving seems to be in my life and I’d love a little direction for learning to finish off projects.
What a great book you’ve written.
March 14, 2010 at 12:36 pm
I would like to win this book to give to a friend who has a loom-she would love it!
smchester at gmail dot com
March 15, 2010 at 5:59 am
I would love to add this book to my craft library. It would help consume some stash.
March 16, 2010 at 2:25 am
Hi Noreen, I´m Michaela from germany and first sorry for my terrible english
You won´t to know WHY I want to win the book – thats very easy ! In april I´ll become a little loom, I´m a beginner with weaving (yes, I´m spinning but thats not the same 
. I´ll beginning with weaving to use my handspun yarn an make wonderfull bags with it. And last but not least we have in germany not so awesome books about weaving (we´re behind the moon with such things) yes, and I think it´s a fine advertisement (sorry I dont know if this is the correct word) to make publicity in Europe for your book 
Regards, Michaela
March 16, 2010 at 2:41 pm
I couldn’t wait to win…I just ordered it!!
Can’t take any chances in these matters. Love the book. Can’t wait to get a loom and try a big bag. Really I’m just thrilled I found you again. Not sure when you stopped Hankerin for Yarn but I was worried there for a bit.
March 19, 2010 at 10:14 am
Hi Noreen,
so,why would i like to win a copy of your new book? Well,tomorrow is Ostara/ new beginnings.. and i need to Spring my creativity in a new direction. thanks.
Bright Blessings
susan
March 19, 2010 at 11:34 am
Because I own 3 of the looms and haven’t even made anything with them because I just haven’t taken the time to breathe and sit down and play. I need visual aids and online never helps me. No one around me weaves, knits, spins, etc. Lonely, out in the wilds of south Jersey, just me and my tools and no one to share with. Besides, my 10 year old has been bugging me to teach her to weave (other than pot holder looms) and maybe this will give us a chance to bond. I don’t know how to knit and crocheting frustrates my daughter when I try and teach her. Here’s something to cry about, I just had an 11 mm kidney stone drop and had to have surgery cause it can’t pass that big. Made me cry
March 19, 2010 at 4:25 pm
I teach shaped tapestry and weaving shaped containers and have written the book called Shaped Tapestry. I would love to have a copy to add to my resource pages when I teach and use the book as a resource for my students. I have been weaving with small looms making purses and bags since I was a child. I am always looking for new ideas and ways to enrich my students perspectives. I have been teaching Seniors in an assisted care home and I think this book might be perfect for them to use.
kathe
March 19, 2010 at 9:04 pm
The book looks fantastic! Noreen don’t know if I have made the deadline or not but will send my post anyway:
To weave your bags, oh what a dream,
But I cant, so now I must scheme.
How can I write a post to win that book,
One that will make Noreen take a second look.
Time is fast running out,
Alas it looks the book I will be without.
At the computer too many hours spent,
Sadly no dinner for my family, I lament.
No clothes or dishes have I done,
Not while there is a book to be won.
Oh the bags I will weave,
Wonderful compliments I will receive.
So Noreen please take sympathy on me,
Can I win one of your books, I plea?
March 20, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Im always looking for new crafty things to do.
I love books that tell me what to make and how to make it too, but because sitting here thinking things up can be kind of hard..
March 20, 2010 at 9:51 pm
I’ve been looking for some new projects to work on
March 20, 2010 at 10:25 pm
I personally dont weave but my Grandmother does this. The book name caught my attention immediately and I thought this would be a great gift for her.
ardy22 at earthlink dot net
March 20, 2010 at 10:26 pm
I want to win the book because I want to weave bags for my friends.
March 20, 2010 at 10:46 pm
I want to win the book because I would like to learn how to weave my own bags.
March 20, 2010 at 10:57 pm
I would love to learn how to do it.
March 24, 2010 at 4:56 am
I so love your work–so many wonderful ideas. I’d love to win a copy of this new one:)