Just a quick note
Hi all just a quick note to say I am off for a few days – I have decided at the last minute to go to St Albans folk festival with Jerry. So I will see you in a few days and approve any comments that are sitting in the …
Month: April 2007
I learnt a new word – scutelliphily
I was poking around the net and discovered Scutelliphily is the collection of badges or patches. These fabric patches are a bit like the ephemera of the textile world and I have decided really quite interesting as textile objects but puzzled that there is not more information about them online. …
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CQ Mag Online is out
CQ Mag Online is out. This is a great issue one of the highlights being a much needed article by Allison Aller – a finalist in “The $100,000 Quilting Challenge” – on how to back a heavily embellished quilt so that it wont sag or distort. In the same issue …
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A Jewel tone block completed for Wednesday
Waving again with a report on what I have been stitching this week. (Turns and waves in all four directions and then does it again just in case I miss anyone out) This idea of reporting weekly as part of Sandie’s UFO and WISP challenge is certainly making me focus …
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Craft Redefining itself
I received an email from Linda of Chloes Place pointing me to an interesting article in the Age. Crafty business points to the changing landscape for craft practitioners. There are a number of factors discussed as aiding the shift which I have explored more fully over in Mindtracks this morning. …
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Free Needlework books from Priscilla Publishing
The Priscilla Publishing Company published needlework books from the 1880’s to the 1920’s. Many of these are online in the Priscilla Publishing Company : Antique pattern library one of the highlights for me is the Priscilla Bead Work Book. Much of it is on beaded knitting but there are lots …
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Bayeux Tapestry Animated
British animator David Newton has animated the Bayeux Tapestry and put it on YouTube. Movement and sound certainly adds something to the narrative told on this famous embroidery. Thanks to Linn of the The Embroideress for the link
