Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont (1846-1890) has been published online as a web site. Usually online books are delivered as PDF files which are easy to download but still a bit unwieldy and costly to print out. It is really handy to have version as a website, as you can …
Stitches: This band illustrates a couching experiments with buttonhole stitch. Buttonhole is holding a ribbon in place. Thread: A hand dyed mercerised cotton, which is about the same weight as perle thread 8 Fabric: This section of the sampler is worked on tea towel linen which is not quite an even weave. …
The first block sits in the top left hand corner of the crazy quilt has a dominant tone of grey. For this reason it is possibly one of the least attractive blocks in the quilt. A you can see there are 6 areas, each of a different fabric. This crazy …
The “I dropped the button box” crazy quilt is a Y2K quilt. What is a Y2K Quilt? It is a Millennium quilt. At the turn of the century as it approached quilters made quilts that had 2000 or 2001 different pieces of fabric in them. Millennium or Y2K quilts were …
I just had t share this knitted bus! Magda Sayeg and a group of guerilla knitters are responsible and it was featured in Telegraph(UK) newspaper Guerilla knitters around the world are taking knitting out of the domestic sphere and into public places as they have started to decorate trees, street signs …
Stitches: This band illustrates a single row of long armed cross stitch Thread: A hand dyed mercerised cotton the same weight and thickness as perle 8 thread. Fabric: This section of the sampler is worked on tea towel linen which is not quite an even weave. Dyes: Procion cold water dyes …
Stitches: This band illustrates a row of Vandyke Stitch which can be found on page 119 of The Stitches of Creative Embroidery by Jacqueline Enthoven or page 135 of A-Z of Embroidery Stitches 2 Mary Corbet of Needle and thread has a video of Vandyke stitch and Primrose design has these step by …
