The other day Penny of Back Valley Seasons wrote a post about her Grandmothers sampler which made me poke around the net to see if there were any Australian needlework samplers were online. The powerhouse museum has a sampler worked by Isabel Buist (1839) at age 9. As the blurb …
A few weeks ago I posted an image of the block I worked from one of Vivian and Mary’s Heavenly Embellishment Bliss bags. Annie Whitsed and I were both given a choice of bags. The idea was to see what we could do with them. I am not associated in …
What have I been up to? While recovery mode I assumed I would be stitching but quickly found that it involved a little too much movement – twisting in one direction to reach that colour thread, then deciding that colour bead on the shelves behind me were needed then back …
Owen Jones classic The Grammar of Ornament is online. The 1910 edition is provided free by the Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture Another gem from the same collection of e books also by Owen Jones is the 1867 edition of Examples of Chinese ornament selected from …
I thought people might like to see more of how I use a use a studio journal as a swatch book. Friends often give me bits and pieces of fabric and lace to use in my stitching. When I use them I like to know who gave them to me …
If you are an English speaker and need to translate a Spanish crochet pattern you have a bit of a problem. Because the language and abbreviations are so specialised a translator will be useless. This site of English and Spanish Crochet abbreviations (link removed as it is out of date) will …
A couple of weeks ago I pointed to Maria Peagler’s site. Maria left a comment about her series of blogs posts on Developing Your Own Color Palette. It is only now I have had a chance to take a good look at them. The series has been published as part …
