Yesterday afternoon we took ourselves off to the National gallery to see the Constable exhibition and spent a pleasant couple of hours wandering from room to room. To my delight there are a couple of facsimiles of two small sketchbooks that Constable kept in 1813 and 1814 which people could …
Alphastamps has republished some vintage knitting patterns not so much for the pattern, but the graphics associated with them. Often when browsing around the net and encountering these old graphics I have thought that images of this vintage could be printed on fabric and incorporated on themed projects. I have …
A comment was left by Danielle of I frog; therefore I knit to let me know that the 2nd Annual World Wide Knit In Public Day is going to be June 10th, 2006. A few queries from readers here had been left on last years entry about this event this …
I found this free design by Jan Kerton for Periwinkle Pincushion which I thought people would be interested in. It would make a lovely gift or exchange.
This is a novel use of contemporary embroidery and a novel way to promote an industry. Austria has released an embroidered stamp depicting an Edelweiss flower. From the website Embroidery is the stuff of which the most valuable fashion dreams are made. Wars have been fought over embroidery, women kidnapped …
I could not resist the work of Felieke van der Leest as it is highly entertaining and a good number of her pieces made me smile. I am sure many will have the same reaction to these quirky crochet and knitted objects. If you swing over there and take a …
An image on Flickr of these small dragonflys lead me to this tutorial on the Dragonfly knot This sent me scurrying all over the net to see what was out there on the traditional handcraft of Chinese knotting . I knew that lovers had used knots to symbolise their commitment …
