Over on Stitchin fingers a discussion has developed about how people store their threads. Often I get asked as to how I store my crazy quilting supplies so today I thought I would show you what I do and explain why I do it. I store everything by colour as …
Kent State University Museum has a website that highlights their extensive textile collection. The collection is divided and presented in four parts, chronologically, geographic region, exhibition and type of embroidery. Most of the collection consists of clothing so anyone interested in costume or the history of garments will find this …
This is a heads up for anyone who has wanted to design fabric. I was a bit slow to realise this (blog moving and all) but Spoonflower is a service that enables you to design and then have your fabric printed onto quilting weight cotton fabric. This is a print on …
I have been poking about the sewing sites again and discovered this tutorial on how to make spats. The pattern is a pdf file and since it is so simple I can see them being embellished is all sorts of ways. Regular readers might be asking why do I want …
Coats have published one of their vintage set of notes on basic embroidery stitches. It is available from the Coats site as a PDF file. It is interesting to see what was considered a ‘basic’ stitch in the 1940’s. For instance both bullion stitch and french knots are included. Found with thanks …
Recently Linda Permann wrote a tutorial for Craft Stylish, on How to Crochet a Flower. The article illustrates a flower which has been made of standard wool. I am sure anyone interested in freeform crochet will enjoy it. The pattern draws on the tradition of Irish Crochet and as such …
For anyone interested in samplers and their history I discovered the 1926 edition of Leigh Ashton’s Samplers Selected and Described as a digitised book free online. The overview from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries covers primarily English samplers but European and American samplers are also included. The book contains …
