After posting yesterday morning we headed out into a chilly late autumn Canberra day to the local swap meet which Rotary runs each Sunday at Woden. In my general scrummaging around I came across an elderly lady who had bagged up the contents of her button box and was selling …
Warning ahead – this is one of those sites you will get lost playing with. Time will slip by and if you planed to get any serious stitching done you can kiss that goodbye, probably the family won’t have dinner on the table either! I have been mucking about with …
This is a novel use of contemporary embroidery and a novel way to promote an industry. Austria has released an embroidered stamp depicting an Edelweiss flower. From the website Embroidery is the stuff of which the most valuable fashion dreams are made. Wars have been fought over embroidery, women kidnapped …
I could not resist the work of Felieke van der Leest as it is highly entertaining and a good number of her pieces made me smile. I am sure many will have the same reaction to these quirky crochet and knitted objects. If you swing over there and take a …
This is just a quick heads up as the latest issue of CQmag online is out. For anyone who has not encountered this ezine it focuses on crazy quilting and associated needlework skills. Best of all its free, with no signup, sign in or fill in this form here… the …
An image on Flickr of these small dragonflys lead me to this tutorial on the Dragonfly knot This sent me scurrying all over the net to see what was out there on the traditional handcraft of Chinese knotting . I knew that lovers had used knots to symbolise their commitment …
Well last month I did not manage to get a card done for the 6 x 4 lives challenge as I was just a bit overloaded but this month I did it! It is Autumn down under. Canberra bursts into a real show of colour every year and I delight …
