An article on the history of crazy quilting lead me to be reminded of Carol Leather’s site Needlework tips and techniques. While there I was poking about and discovered that the ever tricky bullion stitch has been featured in a tutorial on Bullion Roses. Clear tips and advice on how …
I have wasted far too much time playing with another online colour schemer. Regular readers will be aware that every now and then I turn up another of these designers toys online. Actually they are not toys as web designers find them very useful and so do quilters and textile …
The Latest issue of Fibre and Stitch is out. As usual its great treat and it was with pleasure I made a cuppa, printed out the 84 page PDF file and settled back for a good read and visual feast. This is the fourth issue so still relatively young but …
Hi all I am back and with a work in progress report! Well there is a bit more than just a work in progress report so read on … While I was out of action my hands were not, so I finished this lap rug I started not long ago. …
I am behind the news again this morning because CQMag Online has been out a week or so. So make a cuppa and settle back to browse and read. What is in the latest issue? I am picking the eyes out here but to give a brief and quick overview …
Over the weekend I had the chance to browse the latest issue of Bonefolder. This issue (Volume 4, No. 2, Spring 2008) is excellent, and well worth popping over to the site and downloading a copy. Muriel Prince’s article Women and Books: Contemporary book artists share their thoughts was of …
This is a little something to poder over the weekend as Eric Gibson’s piece The Lost Art of Writing about Art focuses on the writing in the reviews, particularly the Whitney Museum’s Biennial exhibition. How critics, curators and people in the business of the visual arts write about art is …
