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March 29, 2026 · 12:36 pm

Links- How To Use Spool Knitted or Lucet Cord

Day 35 of #100daysofspoolknittersandlittlelooms- Lots of Links for How To Use Spool Knitted or Lucet Cord

Spool knitting and using lucets to make lovely cord is relaxing, meditative, contemplative and just plain fun. But, people often ask me: What do you do with all those cords after you’ve made them?

Here’s a list of useful links to videos that I have made about ways of using spool knitted and luceted cord. (Lucets are flat 2 peg spool knitters))

Go to my Etsy shop to buy pdf patterns for fun spool knitted projects:

http://NCroneFindlay.etsy.com

Tutorials and links are nested here: https://tottietalkscrafts.com/

Video Tutorials:

How to add buttons, beads and charms to Lucet or 2 peg spool knitted Cord:

If you are going to use this technique to add embellishments to spool knitted cord, you will need to use the 2 peg spool knitting technique:

How to add buttons, beads, found objects and charms:

Button closures

Celtic knots and interlaces

Shoe laces

Celtic Interlace Hearts

Lucet cord or 2 peg spool knitted butterfly:

How to attach lucet or 2 peg spool knitted cord to garments:

I will be adding more tutorials to this list.

How to weave a ‘Flower of Life’ motif on the Lily Speed O Weave Loom using spool knitted cord:

How to adapt a 4 nail spool knitter so you can spool knit a 5 nail cord on it:

How to cast off spool knitting:

Spool knitting with 4 nails/pegs:

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March 23, 2026 · 4:15 pm

Day 30 of #100daysofspoolknittersandlittlelooms- How to Spool Knit Irresistible Tiny Red Hats for Hope Love and Laughter

Would you like to make Irresistible tiny Red Hats to wear on your finger –

cheering yourself up in these challenging times, or for reminding yourself that Hope is an antidote to despair and cynicism

OR maybe just for a moment of fun in putting on very small finger puppet shows?

OR, perhaps to wear on your lapel or pin to your bag or backpack as a sign of community and connection, OR to give as little gifts to friends and family and fellow travellers?

Okay, here’s a video that I made showing how to spool knit an Irresistible Tiny Red Hat with yarn or fabric strips if you can’t find red yarn. Previously, I have made video tutorials on how to spool knit in the round, as well as flat panels and also how to spool knit with fabric strips. All the links to the tutorials and so much more are at my blog tottietalkscrafts dot com.

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March 16, 2026 · 5:28 pm

Day 23 of #100daysofspoolknittersandlittlelooms- A video tutorial for making a tiny upcycled sketchbook and easy ways of drawing simple faces in it

I made a video tutorial that shows how to make an upcycled tiny sketch book and then how to draw simple faces in it as an ongoing daily practice.

That’s because I am going to be releasing a new pattern tomorrow for wonderful spool knitted dolls and I want people to be able to draw unique, one of a kind faces for their dolls.

I have found that using tiny upcycled sketchbooks to practice drawing faces is a lot like practising a musical instrument.

Daily drawing is the way to build creative stepping stones.

A little bit at a time, all the time.

Large gorgeous sketchbooks with expensive paper can be really hard to work with, but tiny ones that fit in a pocket and are humble paper make for carefree drawing.

And that’s what you want for these new dolls.

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March 7, 2025 · 12:13 pm

How to weave a Kindness Butterfly on the Kindness loom

Butterflies are one of my most favorite ‘Comfort Gifts’,

so it was important to me to design a

Kindness Butterfly as part of the Weaving Kindness Project.

I uploaded a video tutorial showing how to weave a Kindness Butterfly to make with the

Kindness loom by weaving just 2 simple shapes.

This L I N K takes you to the video tutorial for the Comfort Butterflies.

Happy Weaving! ❤

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March 5, 2025 · 4:14 pm

Soothing Insomnia with Kindness Weaving

Yikes- the stress of the insanity out in the world these days is causing me to have panic attacks in the night.

I have found that getting up and warping up my Kindness Loom really helps me to get myself regulated and able to sleep again.

I have been working very hard on a new pattern for the Weaving Kindness project and hope to have it done soon so I can get it out into the world. But last night, I needed a break from ‘figuring it out’ so it was the Lucky Penny Pouches that called to me:

I find it so soothing to weave and stitch together the Lucky Penny Pouches…. these are going to be going to friends and family members that are dealing with challenges, and it made my heart happy to be weaving Kindness for them.

Sometimes, I get freaked out and think that my little bit of Kindness Weaving isn’t going to make any difference, but today I was re-assured by a post that Martha Beck wrote about using your art to calm down your amigdala as a way of healing your broken heart and thus healing the broken heart of the world.

That was so helpful! So, I will keep weaving threads of hope and healing, and hope that you will, too!

Big hugs ❤

I posted YouTube videos that show how to weave a square on the Kindness Loom and how to make a Lucky Penny Pouch. Those links are at: L I N K

Be well, be safe, be kind, take good care, get some sleep and WEAVE ON! ❤

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February 27, 2025 · 12:52 pm

Weaving Kindness Project by Noreen Crone-Findlay How to Weave Squares and Rectangles

The 2 main modules for all the designs and projects for the Kindness Loom Project

are the Square and the Rectangle:

I have made step by step videos showing how to weave the Square and the Rectangle on

the Kindness Loom.

Here are the links to the videos:

How to Weave The Rectangle on the Kindness Loom video: L I N K

How to Weave the Square on the Kindness Loom Video: L I N K

All the links for the Weaving Kindness Project by Noreen Crone-Findlay are at : L I N K

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February 26, 2025 · 2:41 pm

Weaving Kindness Project- How to weave a Lucky Penny Pouch

When I was a little girl, I remember when my parents saw a penny on the ground, they would say:

“Find a Penny, Pick it Up, and on that day, you’ll have good luck!”

Then, they would offer it to someone, saying: “Here’s a Lucky Penny for you! Good Luck!”.

I love making little gifts to brighten the day of someone (friend, family. acquaintance or stranger) and

I decided to make a new little Kindness gift.

It seems to me that right now, everyone we know (and don’t know) all need to feel like some Good Luck will come their way,

so that’s why I have come up with the Lucky Penny Pouches.

I have made this step by step video tutorial to show how to weave and make a Lucky Penny Pouch (for good luck!) using the Kindness Loom that I designed for my ‘Weaving Kindness Project’.

The Lucky Penny Pouches turn ‘lost and found’ pennies into little Good Luck treasures that say to people: You matter! I wish you well! and Good Luck!

The Lucky Penny Pouches are quick and easy and fun to make and to give away. You’ll need the Kindness Loom and to weave one square on it. The video tutorial is available on my youtube channel.

For the links to all the how to videos as well as links to purchase pdf patterns from my etsy shop, please go to: https://tottietalkscrafts.com/2025/02/23/all-the-links-for-the-kindness-loom-and-projects-by-noreen-crone-findlay/

Happy Weaving ❤ I wish you well ❤ You Matter ❤ Be Kind ❤ Be Safe ❤

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February 23, 2025 · 12:44 pm

My Kindness Pin Loom Project

Kindness is important, isn’t it?

When we offer a tiny handmade gift that shows another person that we care about them and that they matter, it is a small act but an essential one.

It’s so lovely to brighten another person’s day by delighting them with a tiny handmade comfort gift.

Amazingly enough, that makes your day so much better, too! What a good way to help to create connection, community and hope.

That is why I have designed a whole bunch of charming little woven ‘Kindness Gifts’ and a small simple, eco friendly pin loom, the Kindness loom, that people can make for themselves using just a few household tools and upcycled materials.

The Kindness looms are perfect for weaving all manner of petite, simple and sweet Kindness gifts that are easy to make. They are a lovely a way to say: “I wish you well”.

The Kindness Pin Loom is all about weaving small tokens of caring, kindness, comfort, wishes for good luck, sweet peace and blessings! From the tiniest flying pigs, Lucky Penny pouches, Comfort Bears, Vasilisa Dolls, Angels, Goddesses to ‘Portrait’ Dolls in homage to family and friends, the Kindness Pin Loom can weave them all, because I am designing them with love and best wishes!

Making things that embody joy and whimsy in small things can add up to great goodness, can’t it? Yup. ❤

As I make the pdf’s for the Kindness projects that I have designed to weave on the Kindness Loom and load them up to my etsy shop, where they will be for sale for a modest fee, I’ll post the links to an all links page LINK And, as I make youtube videos on how to weave on the Kindness Loom as well as some freebie projects, I’ll post those links on the same page, too.

ALL THE LINKS FOR THE KINDNESS LOOM AND PROJECTS BY NOREEN CRONE-FINDLAY

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March 12, 2024 · 2:43 pm

How to Weave a Small Comfort Butterfly on the Chloe Loom

A couple of years ago, I made a youtube video on how to weave butterflies on the Mirrix Saffron loom. LINK

When I was chatting with Claudia and Elena on a webinar a few weeks ago, wonderful Sandy from Mirrix, mentioned about the tabby butterfly. This inspired the living daylights out of me, as I ‘aha-ed’ that I could weave smaller butterflies on the Chloe loom. (BTW, the butterfly woven on the Saffron loom can easily be woven on the Chloe loom, if you use the 8 epi combs.)

Why are small woven butterflies so exciting? For me, the most meaningful reason for weaving the Small Comfort Butterfly is to be able to offer kindness and comfort to people, whether I see them in person, or I mail one to them. People are worn to exhaustion nowadays with all the dreadfulness in the world, so even a tiny glimmer of hope in the form of a woven Comfort Butterflies is a lovely reminder to hold on and carry on, knowing that we are all in this together.

Also, the Comfort Butterflies can be appliqued onto to larger woven pieces or used for creative mending projects or worn as brooches, pins, zipper pulls or earrings.

They also hang happily in house plants to brighten a cloudy day.

And, for those who still enjoy books that are made of paper rather electrons, the small butterflies make lovely bookmarks.

Oh my goodness! I ended up weaving more than 30 prototype butterflies in order to get to this simple little butterfly! It was worth all the work to get there, as it’s now a delightful little butterfly!

I’ve made a video tutorial on youtube to show you, step by step, how to weave and assemble the Comfort Butterfly. I hope that you will enjoy weaving lots of them, and giving them away as a symbol of hope and transformation in these challenging times!

Happy Weaving! May weaving and giving the Small Comfort Butterflies bring you joy! ❤