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.