The Antique Pattern Library has added some more books to their site. The first book I pounced on is “The Ribbon Art Book, Vol I ~ No. III- How to make Hundreds of Dainty and Practical things of Ribbons” If you do historical costuming, silk ribbon embroidery, crazy quilting, or ribbon …
Biscornu pincushions are all the rage. Since I shared 2 TAST stitches last week here are the 5 top tutorials that show you how to make a Biscornu. Biscornus can be any size – even the size of cushions. Other popular uses are as a scissor fob, or tree ornament. …
Just a reminder of some of the resources on this site! Crazy quilting and Hand Embroidery This series of posts on How to assemble a Crazy Quilt includes Assembling a crazy quilt part 1 – Trimming the blocks, joining and a construction technique that means the seams sit flat. Assembling …
Just a reminder of good resources on this site! Crazy quilting and Hand Embroidery This series of posts on How to assemble a Crazy Quilt includes Assembling a crazy quilt part 1 – Trimming the blocks, joining and a construction technique that means the seams sit flat. Assembling a crazy …
R. Ackermann’s Repository of fashions was published 1829 and has been digitized and made available as free Google ebook. For those with a tablet it is easily read or you can view it on your computer. The book contains some really lovely fashion plates of the day which will be …
Here is another book of free patterns for hand embroiderers that I have found in the Antique pattern Library I would like share the find and also provide some eye candy that hopefully temps some of my readers to investigate further. The Antique pattern library do provided some great resources for hand embroiderers online …
It was Australia Day on the 26th but it is a public holiday today so happy holiday to all my Aussie readers. Poking around Youtube I have discovered a couple of video tutorials I think readers might enjoy. In this first video from LittleCanvas demonstrates how to make an art journal …
