Nicole Wolfersberger is posting embroidered diary entries on a regular basis on her blog Embloggery. I find this textile diarist fascinating. Last year at the end of this post I asked if anyone had seen any samplers that were journals or autobiographical in nature. I asked because I often added a bit of …
Have you ever wondered how needles and pins are made? I did, so with the aid of google turned out a few answers. There is not too much online but what I found is here. A Quilt Historian Looks at sewing Needles is a brief history of sewing needles. The …
Has anyone ever taken a good look around Colourlovers? I know I have used it all year for the TIF challenge but I have not explored it nearly enough. I have become totally side tracked with Colourlovers pattern making tool. Why and how did this come about? This year we are making …
How to start hand embroidery is covered in this video made by StitchingCow. The video covers the very basics like choice of needle, use of a hoop, and starting and ending a thread. The Stitching Cow site is worth checking out too as there is a free redwork embroidery pattern …
I was poking around the net looking for book binding eye candy and inspiration because I am making some hand made books as gifts I realised I had missed the last issue of Bonefolder (vol 5 no1) . This journal is way above the normal standard or a free ezine …
I have a work in progress report two more Diamond quilt blocks. I start a little happy dance with each one of these posts I write as it means I am getting closer to completing this quilt. I feel getting a couple of more blocks done is quite a …
After featuring a Fargo rose on some of my crazy quilt blocks, a reader, asked me to write instructions on how work one, so here is a tutorial! This sample of a Fargo Rose is worked using 7mm silk ribbon. First bring you needle through to the front of the fabric. …
