Happy Spring

 Homespun Elegance (pin):   TS-5Bunny's Treat

 

Bunnys - Happy Spring

 

 Homespun Elegance:

Spring Fling with some changes!
Think Spring Tiny Stuff I

 

Bunny Stuff --- Happy Spring

The Bunny Hop" designed by Judy Whitman, JBW Designs c.1999 

 Tiny Stuff: Flying Hare Pin/Ornament

c.1997 Sandra Sullivan of Homespun Elegance Ltd.

 

Underside couching - heart class piece (continued) ....

Kit and Underside Couching instruction, c,Tanya Bentham,  Blog: Opusanglicanum.

I continue to put in stitches (counter point couching) in a silver metallic -- Tanya Bentham: Underside Couching Heart Class / Workshop.    Determined to finish this Heart Class..  

 Next:  Will begin the circles around the heart motif -- probably start with the darker pink ...

 

Underside Couching Heart Class piece

 Dayton Chapter (FB Page) has nicer photograph of the project

Kit and Underside Couching instruction, c,Tanya Bentham,  Blog: Opusanglicanum.

I continue to put in stitches -- Tanya Bentham: Underside Couching Heart Class / Workshop.    Determined to finish this Heart Class..  

 The kit has lovely choices in colors.  Next - the inner circle, background of the heart.   Called counter point couching -- here we go ....

 

Nice pattern for the Hoosier Hills Fiber Festival in June

https://www.hoosierhillsfiberfestival.com/

For the butterfly arch ----

June 5-6, 2026

 

Zwirnknopt Ovals ---

 

 

DMC Coton Perle, #5,  Col. 799, 210, 504.

Daiso Lace Yarn #20, Col. 31

3" oval wooden shape.

 Karen Smock's Zwirnknopt Easter Egg class thru the Lace Museum Virtual Education.   Nice wood pieces from her button store - Karen's Buttons Supplies.  

I didn't attach the bunny - or finish the back (yet).   Once I finish the 2nd oval piece, I'll figure out the embellishing and tidy the back.

Starting the bonus pattern - gift from Karen - variation of the original pattern.

 So far, DMC pc #5, Col. 504 and Aunt Lydia's size 10 Metallic, Col. White/Pearl   Has fewer spokes.   We will see how it turns out.

For the 1st one -- beeswax and clips a must have ....

 

Zwirnknopf Easter Egg

 Pulling out the class kit & sorting thru colors of perle coton.   I picked up a couple embellishments at our local craft store - flowers, rabbits, which I may add once oval is completed.  My girlfriend's husband makes beeswax pieces and I was gifted a few of them last week.

 Preparing for Karen Smock's Zwirnknopt Easter Egg class thru the Lace Museum Virtual Education.   Nice button store - Karen's Buttons Supplies.    Their class selection is wonderful - a lot to choose from.  I continue to be grateful to friends who have gifted fibers and supplies to me!!

Community Lace Project

Check it out-- follow the links.

I filled in my Lace Bingo card and sent to Kelli Slack.

Did you complete one?

Let's Play Bingo:

Get your card(s) submitted!

Details --- at A Twisted Picot site.

 

Reading ....

 Finished and enjoyed

Hannah Rothschild's The Improbability of Love.  Especially when the author had the 'painting' as a character.  I enjoy the art world and this fiction was so much fun to read.   So, finished -- now I can start Mona's Eyes by Thomas Schlesser.

 I have read all of Elizabeth Strout books.  I've read them in order of publication ; however, read any of them!   I have even pre ordered the newest one --  passed along this one to a

 friend!

 Finished and enjoyed Bonnie Garmus

Lessons in Chemistry.   Incredible!   Passed along to a friend.

I've got a start on Daniel Mason's North Woods, and Picoult's Mad Honey --

 just bought Theo of Golden by Allen Levi (gift card from youngest DS).    Have Daniel Mason's short stories, purchased awhile back ... 

have a few on the night stand.

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New Button

Bouncing Button

~A Tatting Over a Ring Technique

Kelli Slack ~ Kelli Slack Designs 

~ http://www.kellislackdesigns.com/

c.2025

I am using a large pink Clover (pic) shuttle -- with

Yarnplayer's Size 10 HDT.   Color Stardate HDT (so pretty).  https://goimagine.com/marileestatting/

over a 36mm acrylic button base

https://www.atwistedpicot.com/shop/p/thread-button-base-plastic  These have

mini cuts/grooves that are awesome!

 Both sides are so pretty!

 

Spiral button created with a tatting shuttle + fiber:

 

Bouncing Button

~A Tatting Over a Ring Technique

Kelli Slack ~ Kelli Slack Designs 

~ http://www.kellislackdesigns.com/

c.2025

I am using a large pink Clover (pic) shuttle -- with

Yarnplayer's Size 10 HDT.   Color Stardate HDT (so pretty).  https://goimagine.com/marileestatting/

over a 36mm acrylic button base

https://www.atwistedpicot.com/shop/p/thread-button-base-plastic  These have

mini cuts/grooves that are awesome!

I am delighted to have a few extra button pieces to try variety of colors/fibers.  The pattern shows a completed button created with Olympus brand fiber.

Mulyana Exhibit

DH and I viewed the exhibit Friday night. 

Lovely reception & lively exhibit.  Just go -- in the neighborhood, visit!!

https://www.artmuseum.indiana.edu/exhibitions/upcoming/_feature-exhibitions/2026-02-07-mulyana-vital-ecosystems.html

Mulyana: Vital Ecosystems Exhibit

Feb 7 - Jun 28, 2026

Facebook page LINK

Eskenazi Art Museum

Indiana University

1133 E. 7th Street.

Bloomington, IN USA

812.855.5445

Per Web Page:   

"Mulyana: Vital Ecosystems transforms the museum into an imaginative underwater landscape inspired by Indonesia’s stunning coral reef ecosystem. This immersive installation of hand-knit and crocheted sculptures by acclaimed fiber artist Mulyana (b. 1984, Bandung, Indonesia) highlights the beauty and precarity of the ocean and our relationship to it."

 

This look interesting:

 

Mulyana: Vital Ecosystems Exhibit

Feb 7 - Jun 28, 2026

Facebook page LINK

Eskenazi Art Museum

Indiana University

1133 E. 7th Street.

Bloomington, IN USA

812.855.5445

Per Web Page:   

"Mulyana: Vital Ecosystems transforms the museum into an imaginative underwater landscape inspired by Indonesia’s stunning coral reef ecosystem. This immersive installation of hand-knit and crocheted sculptures by acclaimed fiber artist Mulyana (b. 1984, Bandung, Indonesia) highlights the beauty and precarity of the ocean and our relationship to it."

Valentine Heart Buttons

 Large enough to hang on the window.   Heart shape was a bracelet covered with yarn.   Fun to use the fibers, ribbon, roses using dorset button techniques.

Valentine Button / Hearts

Pattern & Kit:  Karen Smock

thru The Lace Museum, Virtual Education

Valentine Heart Buttons . . .

 Not quite ... need to fix the "ends" and add the flowers & hangers.  I like Valentine's Day & hearts.  Will get these done a.s.a.p.

Valentine Buttons

Pattern & Kit:  Karen Smock

thru The Lace Museum, Virtual Education

 

Valentine heart buttons . . .

 

 This is how far I got during the zoom class.

Valentine Buttons

Pattern & Kit:  Karen Smock

thru The Lace Museum, Virtual Education

Now to untangle the mess I made & finish the

two hearts.

 The picture of the completed 

hearts, in this photo,  is from the class pattern(s).

Prep for Valentine Buttons class

So far, so good.   Prep 2 heart shapes for Monday's class.

Valentine Buttons

Pattern & Kit:  Karen Smock

thru The Lace Museum, Virtual Education

 

Gifts: Crochet Kits

The Woobles - Hello Kitty

Maybe these kits are easier.   For Beginners.

Sure look cute in the photographs. From DS-A.

Remember PIKA?  Beginner kit? From DS-N.

Knit Picks BEGINNER kit.

Now joining PIKA, Orca.

 I have not added any more stitches.

I may own these kits for a long time . . . or find an expert in crochet who can help me figure them out.