Tutorials and Mini series on Pintangle

Just a reminder of good resources on this site! Crazy quilting and Hand Embroidery  This series of posts on How to assemble a Crazy Quilt includes Assembling a crazy quilt part 1 – Trimming the blocks, joining and a construction technique that means  the seams sit flat. Assembling a crazy …

R. Ackermann’s Repository of fashions a free ebook online

R. Ackermann’s Repository of fashions was published 1829 and has been digitized and made available as free Google ebook. For those with a tablet it is easily read or you can view it on your computer. The book contains some really lovely fashion plates of the day which will be …

A book of free patterns online

Here is another book of free patterns for hand embroiderers that I have found in the Antique pattern Library  I would like share the find and also provide some eye candy that hopefully temps some of my readers to investigate further. The Antique pattern library do provided some great resources for hand embroiderers online …

Free French Embroidery Patterns

This discovery is a gem.  Look at these lovely free French embroidery patterns I just love the designs. Yes, they are lovely, they are free and there is a whole book of them! I discovered Les Fables de La Fontaine, on the Antique Pattern Library web site.  Scroll to F and …