By Hook, By Hand

  Merry Christmas and Blessed Yuletide, from Ivy, Merry, and Noelle.

 It has been a long while since I designed a new doll.  As I get older, I find working with the finer yarns I enjoyed using are harder to se...

  The first of two doll-related posts.  The creations of Carla Mitrani, aka Amour Fou, are a delight to make, and I have been making them!  ...

  These two dolls, from Sandy Nordwall Eggers' BoHo Hippie doll pattern, were made from Worsted Weight Yarn.  The one of the left, the s...

  Artwork by J R R Tolkien I am a tremendous fan of all the works of J R R Tolkien.  I love the movies, and I love the new Amazon Prime Ring...

Memorial Day 2023 Soldiers who kept us free; Spouses who loved our country. Their memories fade As do our own, Reaching toward our final h...

 Revisiting the last doll pattern I designed, Emma.   She is worked in worsted weight yarn (I used Red Heart Super Saver in Buff) and has ve...

  Family will not be with you forever. Enjoy the time you are given. Husband, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Sister, Brother, and Dad.

 After several months of being dead (my blog, not me...), I've resurrected my blog!  From the wasteland that Google left it in (by delet...