Wheee… it was so exciting to hold the book in my hands!
The Potholder Loom Weaving Book can be ordered worldwide on internet book seller sites as well as from your favorite local bookshop. Happy Weaving!
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Potholder Loom Weaving book – For the Home
Here is a short video that shows some of the projects designed to be woven for home decor with potholder looms.
The Potholder Loom Weaving Book can be ordered worldwide on internet book seller sites as well as from your favorite local bookshop. Happy Weaving!
Potholder Loom Book- Baskets
I love baskets. I love weaving them and I love using them.
These soft baskets hold a lot of stuff, and fit great on shelves and into cube shelving.
When they are empty, they are easy to store, because they fold flat. You can fill a soft woven basket with other soft woven baskets until they are needed.
I designed a whole bunch of them for my new Potholder Loom Weaving book.
The baskets are a compendium of a slew of techniques (some of which I figured out for the book) that can also be used in all kinds of other ways- the sky’s the limit on the creative possibilities!
By the way, the baskets work great as market bags or project bags.
Here’s the video:
The Potholder Loom Weaving book is available now online for pre-ordering and will be available in stores and online worldwide in January of 2020.
Potholder Loom Book- Scarves Shawls Stoles
Here’s another sneak peek into my new Potholder loom book:
Scarves, stoles, shawls…. all to weave on potholder looms!
For now, the book can be pre-ordered online and then in January 2020, it will be in bookstores worldwide.
Here’s a little video that shows scarves, stoles and shawls from the book:
Happy Weaving!
Potholder Loom Weaving book- preview- Wall Hangings
I was asked by someone yesterday what loom to buy to learn how to weave wall hangings.
What a great question! Why? Because I designed lots of wall hangings for my new book: Potholder Loom Weaving
The book is available for pre-ordering from all the online booksellers and will be available in bookstores in early 2020. Here’s a link: L I N K
And here are links to order potholder looms:
And, here is a video showing a sneak peek at the Wall Hangings in the book:
My new book on Potholder Loom Weaving
For the last couple of years, I have been working 24/7 on 2 new books as well as a solo show of my mixed media wovenworks.
I am so delighted that both books will be released in 2020 in bookstores worldwide.
My publisher, Stackpole Books/Rowman/Littlefield has made ‘Potholder Loom Weaving’ available online worldwide for pre-ordering.
It will be on bookshelves worldwide in January of 2020. 😀
It’s a BIG book! It is 264 pages of tons and tons and tons of techniques and projects and I am thrilled to bits with it!
You can pre-order the paperback version of it now from all the online book sellers, and here’s a link to the Book Depository, who ships worldwide for free: LINK
The electronic versions of the book will be available in January- I don’t think it can be pre-ordered for Kindle etc yet.
Cutting garments into fabric strips to weave and knit
Recently, I made a video about cutting up garments to upcycle them by weaving or knitting with the fabric strips.
In early October of 2017, my son in law’s step-dad passed away.
This was, of course, very hard on our grandson.
I talked with him about what it meant to him to have his ‘other’ grampa (not my husband) pass away.
I asked him if he needed something of his grampa’s to hold onto, and he said yes.
So, I asked for a couple of Bill’s shirts so I could make comfort critters with them.
I cut them up and wove them into kittys, as that was what my grandson asked for, so he has one, and other family members have them too. (I didn’t photograph all of them).
I also knitted a teddy bear for one of our relatives, as he is definitely a teddy bear guy 🙂
The bear and kittys have been well received and they do carry the love that went into every stitch of making them.
I’ve done this before, and have found that ‘compassion critters’ made from upcycled clothing of a dear one is very comforting for people in grief.
Every little thing helps….
Here’s the video:
The woven kitties and knitted bear are made from the following patterns:
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Woven Sloth
The day my daughter said to me: “Mum, you should design a woven sloth!”, turned out to be a happy one 🙂
I had always liked sloths, but until I started designing one, I didn’t realize how incredibly enchanting they are.
Their sweet nature is so clear to see on their faces!
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I’ve been weaving and selling sloths in my booth at Maker’s Faires and Artisan Markets for more than a year and a half now, and people just love them- they always spark a chortle or a grin.
My daughter in law wants me to make one for her to hang on her spinning wheel, so I got out my potholder loom today and started working on one for her.
She told me that this week is ‘International Sloth Week’, so I thought… okay….
it’s time to publish my pattern in honour of the sweet slowpokes!
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The pattern is available in my etsy shop:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/193617856/adorable-sloth-plushie-toy-to-weave-on?ref=shop_home_active_2
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Happy Sloth Week!
Occupied by Octopi and Einstein
People keep asking me to design and weave baby toys……….. so…….
Every day of the last week, I have been obsessively weaving one octopus after another. Why?
Well, because I’ve been contemplating how to weave toys that are appealing to and for babies.
My checklist for the baby toys:
Bright colors
No beads or buttons, only embroidered embellishments
Lots of opportunities to hold onto the toy, and to hang it up from strollers if wanted, and to connect other toys to it.
The answer: OCTOPUS!
Tah dah!
An occupation of octopuzzzzzzzzzz in my studio!
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Tottie Tomato is somewhat confused by my sudden obsession with oceanic friends.
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She sought out a little advice from her friend, Albert Einstein.
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He reassured Tottie Tomato that all the mermaids in the studio will be sure to keep the octopuzzzzzzzzzzzz under control.
Besides, they are only in residence temporarily, until they are adopted, and, it’s a well known fact that octopuzzzzzzz don’t eat little Tomato people. 🙂
PS: if you are feeling inspired to weave an octopus or two, too, I used my pattern in WEAVAGARUMI
New woven toys
I have a passion for weaving toys that are not just for children, but also to light up the heart of adults, too.
Over the last year, I have been designing and weaving all manner of woven wonderfuls for my booth in all the heaps of artisan’s markets and maker’s faires that I have been doing.
Which is why I have been rather remiss in blogging – it’s all about the weaving, these days 🙂
It’s been a pleasure to let my imagination run wild and create one of a kind pieces without worrying about having to make sure that I can repeat the process to make patterns.
Not to imply that I don’t like designing and making patterns- I really do!
BUT…. it’s delicious to simply let my hands fly and listen to what emerges…. and to respond to what WANTS to emerge! In which case, I have had to build a series of new little looms to keep up with those ‘wanting weavies’. 🙂
Here are a few of my latest pieces:
I never get tired of weaving homages to Albert Einstein 🙂
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Everyone in our family really likes gargoyles, so I had to weave one (and I feel the need to weave more! LOL)
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And, we all quite like frogs- in fact, the joyous uproar of frog song in springtime is one of our favorite things!
This fellow seems very affable to me….
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This Debonaire Ginger Cat is actually based on one of my patterns that is available on my website LINK or on my etsy shop.
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And, for that matter, the pattern for dragons woven on the potholder loom is also available on my website:
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And now, back to ‘one of a kinds’ – This is Dumpling Darling:
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Ahhhhhhhh, babies….. I love to weave babies of all descriptions, like baby piglets:
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and baby hippos:
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Oh, yes, a monster or two….
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And, sometimes, a fairy toadstool wants me to weave it….
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At Christmas, I wove a capybara for my son in law:
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and a fox:
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So, now you see why my blogging hasn’t been up to scratch in 2013…. 🙂 Too busy weaving….
But…. I do plan on being more active with my blog in 2014….
I have a lot of photos of pieces for my Woven Women show that I haven’t posted, so I need to get back to posting those. All in good time 🙂
I’ve been better at posting pictures to facebook, so if you would like to follow me on facebook, the link is:
facebook.com/NoreenCroneFindlayDesigns
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