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Four Seasons – 2009 Freeform Crochet Challenge Book

  Hot of that press, it’s finally here – the International Freeform Fiberarts Guild’s latest challenge in book form, called Four Seasons. Fifty-two freeform artists, including yours truly, participated in this challenge to use freeform fiberart to interpret the 4 seasons.  Myra Wood did an excellent job in putting the book together.  All the proceeds from the sale of the

How I Made the “Rainy Season” Freeform Crochet Purse

This post contains affiliate links. Read my Disclosure Policy for more information. Thanks for your support! As promised, I’m going to describe how I made the “rainy season” purse which appears in the 2009 International Freeform Fiberarts online exhibit. Yarn Selection Of course, you can’t do freeform without the right yarn, and I knew I wanted a variety of yarns

2009 International Freeform Crochet Guild Online Exhibit

This post contains affiliate links. Read my Disclosure Policy for more information. Thanks for your support! Yes, I’m still crocheting but not writing much about it these days (those YouTube videos sure are handy when you’re in a writing slump). New Freeform Crochet Online Exhibit But I had to come out of writer hibernation to let you know that the

Prudence Mapstone’s “A Scrumble A Week” Blog

For you freeform fiber arts enthusiasts, I just learned of a new blog by Master Freeformer, Prudence Mapstone of Australia.  She has decided to create a scrumble for each week of 2009.  They are absolutely beautiful and inspiring.  She includes information about how she is making them, so the site is instructional as well.  Please click the LINK to see

Coral, Crochet and Hyperbolic Geometry

I seem to be in a video frame of mind these days.  Not writing very much about crochet.  But I do want to keep posting on a somewhat regular basis. So here’s another great video that I came across on the international freeform fiber crochet forum (thanks, Pirk!) about science writer Margaret Wertheim’s crochet coral reef project.  Enjoy!

Extreme Crochet — Don’t Try This At Home!

I found this video in one of my crochet forums.  At first I couldn’t figure out what she was doing; but then I realized, omg!, she’s crocheting with her body! The artist is Inga Dawn Hamilton, and I just discovered she’s a member of the International Freeform Crochet forum on Yahoo.  Be sure to check out her website to see

Book Review: Hooked on Murder by Betty Hechtman

This post contains affiliate links. Read my Disclosure Policy for more information. Thanks for your support! I just finished reading Hooked on Murder by Betty Hechtman.  It is the cutest (can’t think of a better word) little book!  Not only is the murder mystery convincing (it took me until chapter 20 to figure out “who done it”), it also revolves

Prudence Maptsonte’s Pink Project

I wanted to tell everyone about a wonderful project that is being spearheaded by Prudence Mapstone, Australian freeform fiber artist extraordinaire.  It’s called The Pink Project.  The inspiration came to Prudence as a result of having participated in the International Freeform Crochet Guild’s Coat of Many Scrumbles in which members from around the world sent freeform “scrumbles” to Prudence who

A Belated 2009 Happy New Year to Everyone!!

As you can see, I’m getting a slow start on the New Year.  For some reason, I just haven’t seemed to be able to work up the energy to post here.  But I did want to say something, seeing as how I only had one post in December (yes, the “Post Police” are counting the number of times I post

2008 Christmas Gifts Are Just About Done

This post contains affiliate links. Read my Disclosure Policy for more information. Thanks for your support! But Gift Ideas for Men Still Elude Me Yes, I think I’m about done with my gift making this year, although I’m feeling for some reason that I haven’t made enough.  Part of the problem is that it’s really easy to crochet and knit

A Cool Way to Join When Crocheting in the Round

“Chain 3” Does Not Make A Good Double Crochet Stitch There is a group on Ravelry of folk who are making the Babette afghan.  One of the complaints about the squares is that, after you end a round by joining with a slip stitch, you have to chain 3 to begin the next round. That chain, which substitutes for one

Still Crocheting Despite Bad Back and Celebrating!

A Bad Back Won’t Keep Me From My Hooks and Needles I finally made it back to posting after about 3 weeks spent convalescing from a back injury.  No it wasn’t that bad — a rotated vertabra that pulled on a rib according to my chiropractor — but sitting for long stretches at the computer was next to impossible.  So

Purple and Yellow Freeform Crochet Purse

Here’s a freeform project that I started a month or so ago.  There’s some interesting history to this project. Designing a Freeform Crochet Purse for Lion Brand I was contacted by a Lion Brand  representative to create a freeform purse for use in their online, free pattern catalog.  This was back in 2006, I think.  The contact had seen my

Christmas at Sea Charity Items Just About Done

Good grief!  I realized September is almost over and I had yet to post anything, so let me correct that oversight right now. I have finally finished three pieces that I will be sending off to the Christmas at Sea charity I talked about in an earlier post  in June of this year. Has it been that long since I

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