I designed this tiny snowman to weave on a 2 inch (or whatever size pin loom you want to use).
Here is a video for the step by step instructions.
Please go to https://youtu.be/F2c0yxkt1Os to see how to weave a bias Triangle on a square pin loom.
If you want to weave this on a Weave It style loom, then go to
https://youtu.be/m-1yK4GYUj4 for instructions on how to weave a triangle on a Weave It style loom.
Many years ago, I had a wonderful dream about the Northern Lights.
I dreamt that thousands of shooting stars were streaming down the Northern Lights (aka Aurora Borealis), but when I looked closer, I saw that the shooting stars were actually Star Babies 🙂
They were laughing, tumbling and frolicing in delight.
It was a wonderful dream, and ever since then, I have designed and made variations on the theme of ‘Star Baby’.
Here’s my woven Star Baby:
STAR BABY TO WEAVE ON THE DEWBERRY RIDGE STAR AND THUMBELINA LOOMS
DESIGNED BY NOREEN CRONE-FINDLAY ©
These woven Starbabies can hang up as ornaments or be pinned to a lapel or just played with as cute little dolls.
FINISHED SIZE: Approximately 5 inches/12.5 cm tall.
WHAT YOU NEED: Dewberry Ridge Star and Thumbelina Looms, Latch hook lucet from Dewberry Ridge Looms or a regular lucet.
About an ounce/28 gm star colored yarn and about and ounce/28 gm yarn for the body.
Face: 1 inch/2.5 cm diameter button and a 1 ½ inch/3 cm diameter circle of lightweight fabric. Needle and thread to gather the fabric circle.
Features: Fine tip permanent marking pens, light pink crayon for cheeks.
WEAVE:
1 Star following the instructions that came with the Star loom from Dewberry Ridge Looms
1 Thumbelina arch shape following the instructions that came with the Thumbelina loom, also from Dewberry Ridge Looms.
Make 2 LUCET cords:
Arms: 2 ½ inches/ 6.25 cm
Legs: 3 ½ inches/ 8/75 cm
ASSEMBLING THE STAR BABY:
Fold the Arch shape in half.
Stitch the Center back edges together to become the body. Leave the lower edge open.
For the head, leave half of the arch not stitched.
FACE:
Stitch around the outside edge of the fabric circle,
then place the button on the circle. Pull up on the thread to gather the circle of fabric tightly.
Stitch in place on the back several times to secure the stitching.
Draw the features onto the face.
The seam is at the back of the body.
Place the face button onto the head. Pull the edges of the head forward and over the edges of the button.
Take the needle and thread through the back of the head and park it for now.
Thread a length of yarn into the weaving needle, then take the needle through the edge stitches. Pull up to gather the head around the face.
Wrap around the neck several times.
Take the yarn end to the back of the head and stitch in place to anchor it.
Use the sewing thread to stitch through the back of the head to secure the face button in place.
In Part 2, I’ll show you how to finish the Star Baby.
This is a tiny video that I made to introduce the Star Babies:
This is the 6th how to video in Noreen Crone-Findlay’s series of Lucet technique tutorials.
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In this video, I show how to make gorgeous Celtic interlace hearts that you can use to embellish woven, knitted, crocheted or sewn fashion accessories or home decor items.
They are also great for scrapbooking and can be used on stationery.
They are perfect Valentines or as Christmas or birthday decorations and ornaments.
Another wonderful way of using these Celtic Interlace hearts is to hang them up as ‘Yarn Bombs’ for people to find and adopt. What a lovely way to brighten someone’s day!
The video shows how to make different sizes of the Celtic Interlace Heart.
Here is the template- print it out so that it’s about 5 inches square, but smaller or larger works just fine, too.
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Spool knitted cords work fine for making the Celtic interlace hearts, too.
Here is the video tutorial:
Please go to https://www.etsy.com/listing/190037126/handmade-wooden-lucet-by-noreen-crone?ref=listing-1 to purchase one of my handmade lucets, and to check out all the nifty spool knitting patterns and eBooks, as all those patterns will work beautifully with Lucet cords.
This is Noreen Crone-Findlay’s original design and concept.
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I love making little presents that I can just pop in an envelope and mail to family and friends.
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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 noodling around in the outer reaches of my brain.
And, a week or so ago, my daughter blogged about very cute embroidered Easter Eggs: Link
And, then Linette blogged about some papier mache Easter eggs that she had just made: Link
These all got me thinking about threads all came together and inspired me to design and make some oh so sweet paper eggs that can hang in a houseplant, a tree or be used as a bookmark or in scrapbooking.
Here’s what I did:
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First of all, I drew an egg shape, and then I made a tracer or template from a piece of plastic from the recycling box.
Then, I traced around it on a used envelope (gotta love being green! re-duce, re-use, recycle, reclaim, upcycle!) and cut out 2 eggs. (Front and back).
Then I cut out an inch diameter circle of white paper (use whatever color works best for your choice of skin tone).
I snipped about 4 inches of embroidery floss for the hanger.
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Draw the face on the circle and glue it on the front egg.
I doodled merrily away on the front of the egg, and then, because this one is going to my mom, I wrote a message on the back.
Glue the thread in a loop to the inside of the back and then glue the front to the back….. and Voila!
Adorable paper eggs to celebrate springtime!
Variations: I had brunch with 2 friends yesterday, and I made them eggs, but didn’t do the doodles. I took my colored pens with me, and they doodled happily on their eggs while we visited. Fun! Here are their eggs:
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I also love to use fragments of tatting to decorate and embellish, so I used some scraps of tatting on 2 more eggs…
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This tutorial is Noreen Crone-Findlay’s original concept and design. Please DO NOT COPY the text or photos. Please do share the link! Thanks so much!!!
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