For the Love of Stitching Sampler – Band 28

Stitches:  This band illustrates experiments with zig zag coral stitch, Thread: A hand dyed mercerised cotton, which is about the same weight as  perle 8 thread Fabric: This section of the sampler is worked on tea towel linen which is not quite an even weave. Dyes: Procion cold water dyes …

Encyclopedia of Needlework online

Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont (1846-1890) has been published online as a web site.  Usually online books are delivered as PDF files which are easy to download but still a bit unwieldy and costly to print out. It is really handy to have version as a website, as you can …

For the Love of Stitching Sampler – Band 27

Stitches:  This band illustrates  a couching experiments with  buttonhole  stitch. Buttonhole is holding a ribbon in place. Thread: A hand dyed mercerised cotton, which is about the same weight as perle thread 8 Fabric: This section of the sampler is worked on tea towel linen which is not quite an even weave. …

A grid reference and back for story I Dropped the Button Box quilt

In this post I hope to tell your a little of the history of the “I dropped the button box” crazy quilt and provide a grid reference for each block which I will refer to in future posts and a picture of the quilt itself.  The “I dropped the button …

Yarn Bombing as Street Art

  I just had t share this knitted bus! Magda Sayeg and a group of guerilla knitters are responsible and it was featured in Telegraph(UK) newspaper  Guerilla knitters around the world are taking knitting out of the domestic sphere and into public places as they have started to decorate trees, street signs …