Time to sit down and have a cuppa, as we need to have a chat. I have had a number of emails on this topic so I think its time to tease out some ideas. Readers have asked what I am going to do for a challenge next year. Well …
I have been poking about the sewing sites again and discovered this tutorial on how to make spats. The pattern is a pdf file and since it is so simple I can see them being embellished is all sorts of ways. Regular readers might be asking why do I want …
Coats have published one of their vintage set of notes on basic embroidery stitches. It is available from the Coats site as a PDF file. It is interesting to see what was considered a ‘basic’ stitch in the 1940’s. For instance both bullion stitch and french knots are included. Found with thanks …
I hope people are still enjoying these diamond blocks. I am in a little bit of a routine with them now. Here are the next few. As usual if you click on the images you can go to a larger version and when on that page click on the magnify glass …
Recently Linda Permann wrote a tutorial for Craft Stylish, on How to Crochet a Flower. The article illustrates a flower which has been made of standard wool. I am sure anyone interested in freeform crochet will enjoy it. The pattern draws on the tradition of Irish Crochet and as such …
News: Bloggers who Embellish Ring is moving First up I have some news for the CQ community online as I had an email from Mary Frances Main of Frequently Wrong but Never in Doubt to let me know she is moving the Bloggers who Embellish Ring The group will still …
For anyone interested in samplers and their history I discovered the 1926 edition of Leigh Ashton’s Samplers Selected and Described as a digitised book free online. The overview from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries covers primarily English samplers but European and American samplers are also included. The book contains …
