Online photo editor


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Online Photo! Editor is a free photo manipulation, enhancement and editor. It is a very basic manipulation tool but often that is all you want or need. Often textile artists take photos to act as jump off point to a design. What they need is a way to trace basic …

Sites worth bookmarking: Fabric on Demand


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Fabric on Demand is a print on demand service for fabric designers. I have not used this service but it appears to be fairly straight forward. First of course you need to create a design.  The file you submit to them has to be 150 dpi, 1200 x 1200 and 10 …

Sites worth bookmarking: MyPhotoStitch


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MyPhotoStitch is a free online service which will take one of your photos and chart it ready for cross stitch.  I decided to test it using this photograph. To use the program  choose one of your photos on your computer. Make sure your photograph is under  1 MG as this …

Turning photos into designs


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Many textile practitioners look at a photo and wonder how they might go about turning what they see in the photo into a design suitable for fiber. If you are in this situation this free online tool may help you.  BeFunky is a free web based  online service that allows …

The Grammar of Ornament online


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After yesterday’s post  about articles in the V&A journal  I went poking around the net a little further and discovered The Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture houses an online copy of Owen Jones classic The Grammar of Ornament This book is beautifully illustrated and influences textile design to this …

Yarn Bombing as Street Art


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  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 …

Fun on ColourLovers


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Has anyone ever taken a good look around Colourlovers? I know I have used it all year for the TIF challenge but I have not explored it nearly enough.  I have become totally side tracked with Colourlovers pattern making tool. Why and how did this come about? This year we are making …