Woven bars are great fun to make. You mainly use Woven Bars in traditional drawn-thread work, where you withdraw the horizontal threads from the foundation fabric. Woven bars are then worked on the vertical threads. Contemporary needleweaving makes use of this stitch too. You can work them in a freestyle …
We have reached the last block on the Diamonds are Forever quilt. I can not quite believe it! Tumbling block 21 sits in the bottom row on the right-hand side of the Diamonds are Forever quilt. You can download the patterns for the three diamonds that make up the block. …
Just a little behind the scenes news. I have recently returned from a trip to Malaysia. We stayed in Penang and you guessed it went bead shopping. The warehouse was very hot (it was 32 degrees (thats about 90F) and about 97% humidity. The warehouse had no aircon so I …
Tumbling block 20 sits in the middle on the bottom row of the Diamonds are Forever quilt. You can download the patterns for the three diamonds that make up the block. Here is the light tone diamond, the mid tone diamond, and the dark tone diamond. Just to remind you …
Tumbling block 19 sits in the bottom row on the left-hand side of the Diamonds are Forever quilt. I can’t quite believe we are on the last row of the quilt! You can download the patterns for the three diamonds that make up the block, and this month there is …
Tumbling block 18 sits second row from the bottom on the right-hand side of the Diamonds are Forever quilt. You can download the patterns for the three diamonds that make up the block. Here is light tone diamond, the mid tone diamond, and the dark tone diamond. Just to remind …
While poking around the Internet Library I struck gold and found Briggs & Co.’s patent transferring papers which is out of copyright. For anyone interested in vintage hand embroidery designs or if you do crazy quilting and want to add some motifs to your patches it’s a real gem. I …
