Candida thoughtfully sent me this link to the Fashion Color Report for Fall 2008 – Check out the colours they look great Arlee of Albedo has new tutorial on her site on making fabric ATCs and postcards Arlee style. This tutorial is described as emailable and printer friendly.
Bookbinding is great fun, creative, a useful craft skill and hand bound notebooks make great gifts, or can be used as visual journals. Recently I have been exploring the book binding sites and discovered a few good tutorials online. Dave’s Book Tutorial is an excellent step by step tutorial with …
After my review of MistyFuse Dale at The Thread Studio sent me a sample of Gossamer Fuse which is a strong yet light weight web like fusable. It is an environmentally responsible product manufactured in Europe under strict green conditions. Dale also tells me that Gossamar fuse is packaged in …
Last Thursday I posted a guessing game asking how long and why did I piece together my band sampler roll. No doubt people are wondering what the answer is. Well the sampler measures 33 ft 2 inches or 11.05 yards in metric that is 1010.92 centimeters or 10.109 meters. If …
Let’s play a guessing game but first let me fill you in on the back story. Over the last couple of days you may have noticed an increased interest in samplers. For years I have made and kept samplers as a personal reference and teaching aid. I love them. I …
As you can see it is this encrusted highly textured sampler is fresh off the hoop and still to be blocked. Today I plan to share how I designed and stitched this sampler. This bone sampler is both surface embroidery, combined with textured stitches and beadwork. It is a contemporary …
Hi all I have just approved numerous comments. Some not nice 🙁 . Don’t fret I am shaking my head and laughing but I had better clarify before I cop too much more flack. I want to make it very clear that the type of projects I am objecting to …
