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

 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 see and work with.  Yet I still like smaller dolls. And with prices going up everywhere, good value-priced yarns become more desireable to me.  My favorite is Red Heart Super Saver.  A particularly good yarn for making toys, as it wears like iron, and comes in large skeins that are valued priced.  Not to mention, a boodle of colors, including some great skin tones. So here is a very simple crochet doll, using worsted yarn fo ..read more

  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!  You can purchase her patterns in book form, as above, through Amazon, or buy individual patterns from her Etsy shop:  AmourFouCrochet Here are a few of my makes from her easy to follow and delightful patterns: Small Greta Thunberg and large Greta Thunberg.  Small made with DK weight cotton yarn and a C hook; large made with worsted weight yarn and an E hook.  Small is about 7 inches tall; large 8.5 inches. Malala You ..read more

  These two dolls, from Sandy Nordwall Eggers' BoHo Hippie doll pattern, were made from Worsted Weight Yarn.  The one of the left, the smaller, used Bernat Super Value yarn.  The one on the right used Red Heart Super Saver yarn.  Same hook, same number of stitches. The Bernat yarn worked up smaller, as it is thinner than the Red Heart yarn: Bernat - 7 ounces/ 440 yards Red Heart - 7 ounces/ 364 yards That is a pretty big difference for two value priced yarns that are both labeled as Worsted Weight/ Medium/4.  And you can see it in the way they work up. Not only t ..read more

  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 Rings of Power streaming show. So I decided, with some encouragement from like-minded friends, to create a Facebook Page to celebrate all things Tolkien.  His own words, his own art, my words, my photography, and such topics that I feel to be relavant to Tolkien.  My page is known as 'Marigold Brandyfoot' Today, Facebook publishes on my page the following statement: Your Page is not recommendable Content on your Page is preventing it from being suggested to peo ..read more

Memorial Day 2023 Soldiers who kept us free; Spouses who loved our country. Their memories fade As do our own, Reaching toward our final home. 'Never forget' never lasts; And so we never learn From the tears of our past. Rest in peace; You did your best; May we have the courage to do the rest ..read more

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

 After several months of being dead, I've resurrected my blog!  From the wasteland that Google left it in (by deleting the website that was hosting my patterns) it rises like a Phoenix to live again! I've done my best to restore all the pattern links within each post and also the links along the left sidebar.  I may have missed one or two, but they should all work ..read more

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