Free embroidery designs from the V&A


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  The Victorian and Albert Museum has published some Designs & Illustrations by Florence Caulfield. These patterns are released free to embroiderers to print out, transfer to cloth and use. If you click on any of the images you can view a larger version.  I must admit my connection has been …

Sewing tips and tricks on Threads


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Have you ever poked around the the Threads website? For those who live where this magazine does not hit the news stands, Threads is a print magazine that publishes articles on fine sewing and embellishment. The site houses loads of interesting articles, tips and tutorials.   With the release of …

2008 Alice Springs Beanie Festival


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I enjoy the 2008 Alice Springs Beanie Festival Competition every year. One year I willget my act together to send some in too but  this year the winners are even more outrageous. This community based event began in 1997 and has grown. This year the festival had 5389 beanies. I …

Fun printables for fiber folks


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I thought these Vintage handcrafted product labels are a bit different and you could print them on fabric using bubblejet set and use them in your textile projects. They would be great in a crazy quilt block that revolved around a them of the kitchen, food, cooking etc.This link was …

General catch up …


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I received an email from Jen who is a a cross stitch pattern publisher. Over on her blog Needle and Thread, Jen is running a contest which runs from August 1st to the 5th. It is a scavenger hunt and word puzzle contest that involves four other blogging cross stitch …

Craft Stylish


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Craft Stylish is a new ezine/craft site which is part of the Taunton chain of sites. Taunton publish Threads magazine. There are lots of small quick and useful tutorials and articles which make the site well worth browsing if not subscribing to in your RSS feed. Take a good look …

I am back


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Kathrine Tyrrell has recently published on Making a Mark some great posts on a colour and colour wheels as she has been developing a matrix of theories about colour space and in an earlier post Kathrine wrote a colour round up. Related to this is yet another article Hues – …