Here are the links to the kit and pdf for my latest design for the Lily Doll Project: A tiny woven Baby Doll.
https://mirrixlooms.com/collections/kits/products/the-lily-baby-doll
https://mirrixlooms.com/collections/books-media/products/the-lily-baby-doll-instructional-pdf
The Lily Doll Project that I am co-creating with Mirrix looms grows a little more each month.
This month, the newest addition is tadah: Jeans for Lily Doll and her friends.
Yesterday’s blog post was inspired by Lily Doll’s new jeans.
All the PDF’s and kits to make everything in the Lily Doll Project (including the Jeans) are available at:
Happy Weaving! ❤
Lily Doll, Millie, Lally, Teddy Bear and Sam Dog The Brave decided that they needed to investigate the flowers in the trees. The flowers smelles so delicious and inviting!
Lily Doll and Millie Doll have new jeans, which made them feel extra adventurous.
Lally doesn’t have jeans yet, but she wasn’t going to let that slow her down!
Lily and Millie scrambled up the pear tree to snip the sweet smelling blossoms. They didn’t notice that Teddy Bear and Lally weren’t with them.
They heard a little ‘Squeak’ and Millie climbed down to see what it was…. oh no!
Teddy Bear thought that he might find some honey in an inviting looking tree cave…. but, nope.
No honey, but suddenly, he felt that everyone had climbed too high and he didn’t like it at all.
Millie called Lily….
And, Lily talked kindly to Teddy Bear
And they both rescued him.
Lally called to them to see what she had found…. so while Lily comforted Teddy Bear, Millie scrambled higher up the tree.
A Faerie window!!!!
Teddy Bear said he was tired and hungry and that he really didn’t want to open the Faerie Window, Just in Case…. (it could be scary, after all).
Brave Sam The Wonder Dog hadn’t bothered with climbing trees.
He was much more interested in the Faerie Door at the base of the tree!
He called them down and they took a selfie and decided that it was time to go inside.
Lally thinks that it’s unfair that she doesn’t have jeans, so I have promised her a pair.
(But in a different color, she said…. to go with her hair).
The pattern for the jeans as well as all the other patterns and kits are all available at:
Hope you find magic and wonder in your garden or in one that is close to you, and also on your loom!
Happy Springtime! ❤
I walked into my studio this morning and was stopped in my tracks by a rainbow , gobsmackingly intense, parked under my wee Structo Loom.
I raced for my camera to catch it before it flickered off to play in another corner of the room.
Such small and fleeting things bring so much joy!
I turned my back and a moment later, the rainbow was gone…..
I hope that unexpected delights will suddenly appear for you too! 🙂
An odd thing has happened with this post…. not only did the rainbow in the studio disappear, but so has the post itself. I’ve been wrestling with getting it to show up again and wondering how and why a post would simply disappear. Sigh…..
Around the middle of every month of 2024, Mirrix Looms will be releasing a new pdf pattern and kit for projects that I have designed for the Lily Doll Project.
And, since today is the 15th, there’s a new pattern and kit for Lily Doll at https://mirrixlooms.com/pages/lily
Lily Doll now has a comfy sweater and a skirt that has twisted cord suspenders and waist band and a sweet sweater.
There are lots of ways to make twisted cords, but here’s one that I have come up with that is so easy: Here’s the video:
I made the skirt and sweater using the same color yarn, but if that’s too matchy matchy for you, feel free to use other colors. 🙂
Happy Weaving! and Happy Twisted Cordmaking, too! ❤
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! ❤
The days are getting longer, and certainly are warmer than a month ago!
But it’s still winter here. Which inspired me to design and weave a cape for Lily Doll:
The kit and pdf are available at https://mirrixlooms.com/lily
I just noticed that the background screen has a white loop that looks like it’s part of the cape sticking out of Lily Doll’s ear. Sigh…. not at all. I could go and re-shoot the photo or I could tell you that I didn’t notice it until now, which is what I have opted to do instead of the sensible solution of re-shooting the photo. Ah well…. and, perhaps you didn’t notice, but now you have.
And, if you did notice and thought that I did something odd, well you were right… I placed Lily Doll in just the wrong spot. Haven’t you ever placed yourself or something in an odd place? It happens.
Mercy on us all!
I weave all the dolls and bears and toys and clothes for the Lily Doll Project on the 5 inch wide Mirrix Chloe loom, which I am madly in love with. It’s a wonderful little sturdy, delightfully adjustable little miracle of excellent design.
Yup. Love it and highly recommend it. I keep having ‘Aha’ and ‘Oh Wow’ moments with it.
My apologies to the 8 inch Chloe loom, which is also a lovely loom, but I am totally smitten by the 5 inch Chloe.
Yes, I am lucky enough to have both, but it is the 5 inch Chloe that is my ‘go to’ loom).
Happy weaving! ❤
I love designing and weaving little things. And, today, we are releasing the pdf pattern and kits for 3 dear small woven critters-
I love cats, dogs and bunnies, so I couldn’t resist weaving these three friends as part of the Lily Doll project.
The puppy and kitty were based on ‘real life’ critters, but feel free to adapt the colorways to match your own personal favorite pets.
The kit for weaving these 3 wee charmers is available at https://mirrixlooms.com/lily
By the way, on the 15th of each month through 2024, we will be releasing a new kit for a design that I have made for the Lily Doll project. They’re all available at the mirrix website.
We’re planning some other fun things, too. I’ll post about them as they come up.
Hope 2024 is full of good things for you and yours: Blessings and hugs ❤ and happy weaving!
I wove one miniature panda, then another and another- I couldn’t resist weaving the tiny tiny pandas using the pattern that I designed for the wee teddy bears that are part of the Lily Doll Project that I created for Mirrix looms.
The pandas and bears are all woven on the Mirrix Chloe Loom.
The pandas are made the same way as the tiny teddy bears, except the ears, arms and legs are different color yarns, and a couple of little stitches are added to the face to make their face patches.
The pdf and kit for the teddy bear are available at https://mirrixlooms.com/lily.
To make the pandas, use scraps of yarn or embroidery floss from your stash.
Happy Weaving! <3
I made a little video – https://youtube.com/shorts/AUeD4A7BMwQ
The Pixel People are quirky little woven wonderfuls that I designed for the Lily Doll Project.
They began as doodles on graph paper and were so delightful that I had to weave them right away! They are very small, so they are quick to weave and are great little stash busters. (they’re 1 1/2 inch or 3.75 cm square). I always put a ‘Lucky Penny’ and a paper heart inside to make them even more good natured.
They should probably come with a warning that they are so much fun to weave that it becomes quite addictive to weave them. This is really okay, as people love them so much that the Pixel People jump merrily into other people’s hands and hearts and pockets, too.
There’s more information about the Lily Doll Project at www.tottietalkscrafts.com and the kits and pdf’s are available at https://mirrixlooms.com/lily
Happy happy weaving!
Here’s a link to a little slide show that I made when I was playing with some of the Pixel People that have flown away from the studio:
Noreen Crone-Findlay, designer and author
Tottie Talks Crafts Blog 