Allison Aller’s Crazy Quilt

For those readers who are into crazy quilting don’t miss Allison Aller’s post on the assembly of her KT’s Crazy quilt. The quilt measures 5′ x 10′. It’s a huge project which she has blogged and Allison has written and illustrated the quilt assembly – something many people new to …

Free patterns

In my poking about I found that DMC has free designs for cross stitch, crochet and needlepoint canvas work that are available for download. Also there are come easy simple stitchery ideas suitable for children or beginners. The site also houses complete lists of their thread range, conversion charts and …

The Cashmere Shawl

A chapter on shawls from Harper’s magazine December 1850 is available online. It describes the Cashmere shawl as “ A garment capable of appearing the most feminine and graceful in the world.” The article is a from a fashion spread of the day, is beautifully illustrated, and explains how the …

Katrina blocks and other fundraising ideas

With December 8th looming I received a couple of more blocks in the mail yesterday. I will have these online as soon as possible hopefully tomorrow morning. On my post that announced the gallery for this project a comment was left by Julia White suggesting a poster be produced and …