If you sew Burdastyle is a site well worth exploring as it has has free printable patterns, a forum, a blog and instructional material on the site. For those who enjoying listening to a podcast while they stitch Annies Quilting Stash will interest you On another note Jerry has finished …
I have been poking around the World Shibori Network site and discovering all sorts of interesting things about shibori. I have heard of shibori referred to as stitch dye, fold dye, pole wrap dye and of course tie dye but these bound resist techniques are all techniques taken to the …
Candida thoughtfully sent me this link to the Fashion Color Report for Fall 2008 – Check out the colours they look great Arlee of Albedo has new tutorial on her site on making fabric ATCs and postcards Arlee style. This tutorial is described as emailable and printer friendly.
After my review of MistyFuse Dale at The Thread Studio sent me a sample of Gossamer Fuse which is a strong yet light weight web like fusable. It is an environmentally responsible product manufactured in Europe under strict green conditions. Dale also tells me that Gossamar fuse is packaged in …
Last Thursday I posted a guessing game asking how long and why did I piece together my band sampler roll. No doubt people are wondering what the answer is. Well the sampler measures 33 ft 2 inches or 11.05 yards in metric that is 1010.92 centimeters or 10.109 meters. If …
Let’s play a guessing game but first let me fill you in on the back story. Over the last couple of days you may have noticed an increased interest in samplers. For years I have made and kept samplers as a personal reference and teaching aid. I love them. I …
Sit down and grab a cuppa as I have a few newsy items this morning and a bit of musing has been going on. Firstly the Take it Further challenge is still growing as people are still signing up. It now sits at well over 200 people who have signed …
