I am still a big kid at times. This morning I opened my mail to read an email from Sennur in Istanbul. Sennur’s interests are in crochet and embroidery and she has gone to the trouble of writing her blog nursbasket in English and in Turkish I really admire people …
Fabric remains are exceedingly rare in archaeological sites, which is why the discovery of the oldest and largest collection of ancient textiles in the world is an exciting piece of news. Archaeologists have discovered what is believed to be ancient warehouses in the Burnt City. The city was built in …
Mary-Frances Main of Frequently Wrong, But Never in Doubt , dropped me a line to let me know that her Rocky Mountain Crazy Quilters has produced a calendar of member’s work. Details about how you can get hold of this this eye candy is here Jo in New Zealand also …
Well, perhaps people would use this crochet pattern for a heart motif for other purposes but I am a bit mad on crazy quilting. I know nobody would ever guess this interest of mine but here you are. Anyway for those who are handy with crochet hooks I thought this …
These colouring pages of birds and butterflies are ideal to resize an use in needlework and embroidery. Thanks goes to Meggiecat for the link.
Through the week I was asked about Lagartera Embroidery and had to leave the answer until today as life was busy. I knew I was going to have to trawling though my references as there is little online about this obscure form of embroidery. I knew I had an article …
Even though it has been outrageously hot here Annie Whitsed of Annies Crazy World has started the assembly of the blocks for the All that Jazz Quilt . She is an expert assembler – with a passion for getting such things just right. Take a look at her arrangement of …
