I have been poking around the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco site. With 82,000 digitised art works there is a feast of eye candy for any one. I got lost for a couple of hours in the My gallery section of the site. Then started using keywords such embroidery, …
I have been playing around with a little applet Websites as graphs which is a fun and interesting visualisation tool. I wrote a post about it on my other blog Mindtracks. As I was playing around with these images I thought about translating them into textiles. If you are interested …
Browsing the Memorial Hall Museum Digital Collection led me to discover this Crazy Quilt with a Netted Border. The site has options to zoom in on the image and take a really good look at the details (the icons are found on the right hand side of the screen.) The …
The Ozquilt Network is a national organisation for those interested in art quilts and for those who create art quilts. The site houses a gallery of recent work, a members list, a teachers list, exhibitions section, information on how to join and contact details
The other day Penny of Back Valley Seasons wrote a post about her Grandmothers sampler which made me poke around the net to see if there were any Australian needlework samplers were online. The powerhouse museum has a sampler worked by Isabel Buist (1839) at age 9. As the blurb …
A few weeks ago I posted an image of the block I worked from one of Vivian and Mary’s Heavenly Embellishment Bliss bags. Annie Whitsed and I were both given a choice of bags. The idea was to see what we could do with them. I am not associated in …
What have I been up to? While recovery mode I assumed I would be stitching but quickly found that it involved a little too much movement – twisting in one direction to reach that colour thread, then deciding that colour bead on the shelves behind me were needed then back …
