Virginia A. Spiegel dropped me an email to let me know that she has some new work up in her gallery. Those who mix fiber and paper will find her whole site interesting. Virginia Spiegel is a mixed media and textile artist who has an extensive and ever expanding gallery …
I have a handful of crochet resources to toss your way this morning as a bit of clean out of bookmarks is going on. There are a number of stitch instructions for crochet published free online. The first is from StitchGuide.com which illustrates directions with drawings and often videos which …
Now I am sure this is exactly what you need over your morning coffee but if you need to know the difference between an achkan and a vajani this Glossary of Indian Fashion terms will help you.
In my poking about I found that DMC has free designs for cross stitch, crochet and needlepoint canvas work that are available for download. Also there are come easy simple stitchery ideas suitable for children or beginners. The site also houses complete lists of their thread range, conversion charts and …
A chapter on shawls from Harper’s magazine December 1850 is available online. It describes the Cashmere shawl as “ A garment capable of appearing the most feminine and graceful in the world.” The article is a from a fashion spread of the day, is beautifully illustrated, and explains how the …
I found this handy Glossary of Embroidery terms which appears to be a handy resource site for machine embroiderers.
I did promise to start highlighting blogs again so here we go. I have been browsing around Monster crochet authored by Lady Linoleum. Of course with such a title there is a lot of crochet going on. Other interests of this talented woman are documented as well, softies, some very …
