Linda over on Chloe’s Place had a gem of a find at the local markets on Sunday. A copy of the Melba Needlework book came Lindas way and she is loading it to her Flickr site. So do check out her Melba set and while you are there don’t forget …
More and more bloggers are writing tutorials on how to make or do particular things. Some tutorials are obviously quickly written by inexperienced teachers but others being published are real gems. I think it is worth doing a regular round up of these “how to” posts. I thought that if …
BibliOdyssey has highlighted a wonderful late 12th Century illuminated Armenian Manuscript produced in a Lviv scriptorium. The manuscript online in the Digital Library of Poland. It was a week or so ago (I am catching up with blog reading) so do check it out.
Square Boss stitch is similar to Rice Stitch and you can easily mix the two in one area. You can really have fun with this stitch particularly if you change threads. You can use one thread or colour for the large cross and another thread of colour for the corner …
In response to my post pointing toward Crochet workshop sheets to download Christine asked if scrumbling was suitable for children. I thought it a very good question so decided to expand a little on this morning. I think if the stitches were kept simple and the scrumbles small it would …
For anyone who is interested in freeform crochet otherwise known as scrumbling these Crochet workshop sheets are worth browsing. The files are available to download as PDFs from Sylvia Cosh and James Walters. They are described as These worksheets were created in order to save workshop students from having to …
Have you have ever wanted to try your hand at basic book binding? If so this tutorial on how to Make Your Own Moleskine-Like-Notebook illustrates clearly how do so. Photographs are clear and instructions are concise – just like a tutorial should be!
