Do you need a few ideas and techniques to embellish crazy quilt block using methods other than stitching? Hopefully this article will help. Before I start I stress that there are no hard and fast rules in crazy quilting, so anything I say is simply in the category of advice. …
Jill Smith dropped me an email a week or so ago now, to say she is offering classes in creative textiles. Offers include, Layering Class and the Slash Technique, Free Motion Embroidery, Shibori Dyeing, Indian Delights, Make A Wall Hanging out of Scraps, and a series of single classes. I …
Questions about Cigarette silks what they are and why they were produced ae often raised in conversations between crazy quilters because reproduction cigarette silks are still used in contemporary crazy quilts. A well researched article online about these novelty items is Textile Tobacco Inserts and Premiums used in American Quilts, …
Arlee Has asked me to pass on the news that new yahoo discussion group has been established to explore and share free motion embroidery Freemotione is not for digitized or pre-programmed stitching here the idea is to use your sewing machine as a drawing tool.
I received a rather distressing email from Nancy Eha this morning. As regular readers know she is a well known beader, embellished quilter and instructor who has been asked to participate in the All that Jazz quilt, which is to be auctioned on eBay to provide relief funds to survivors …
There is some exciting news as Annie Whitsed has her own domain name loopylace the implications of this being, her site Annie’s Crazy Quilt Studio has been totally revamped and moved. For those who read her blog moved her blog Annie’s Crazy World . I notice Annie too has gone …
There is a new crazy quilting blog on the block. Many people on the discussion lists will already know LouAnne but its nice to see her work appearing on her new blog Getting to Crazy . Welcome to blogging LouAnne! Pop over and say hello everyone.
