Yesterday afternoon we took ourselves off to the National gallery to see the Constable exhibition and spent a pleasant couple of hours wandering from room to room. To my delight there are a couple of facsimiles of two small sketchbooks that Constable kept in 1813 and 1814 which people could …
Back in January I pieced the diamond shaped blocks for another crazy quilt. This is an update on some rather slow progress of this project. As you can see I have a block almost complete. I have yet to add some buttons and plan to when I lay out three …
Alphastamps has republished some vintage knitting patterns not so much for the pattern, but the graphics associated with them. Often when browsing around the net and encountering these old graphics I have thought that images of this vintage could be printed on fabric and incorporated on themed projects. I have …
Scrapblog.com is free place online to create scrapblogs the online equivalent of scrapbooks. They describe their idea as Online sharing has improved exponentially in the recent years and even months, but it’s time to start having fun with your pictures online. Enter Scrapblog! The only site that merges the creativity …
A comment was left by Danielle of I frog; therefore I knit to let me know that the 2nd Annual World Wide Knit In Public Day is going to be June 10th, 2006. A few queries from readers here had been left on last years entry about this event this …
I found this free design by Jan Kerton for Periwinkle Pincushion which I thought people would be interested in. It would make a lovely gift or exchange.
This is a novel use of contemporary embroidery and a novel way to promote an industry. Austria has released an embroidered stamp depicting an Edelweiss flower. From the website Embroidery is the stuff of which the most valuable fashion dreams are made. Wars have been fought over embroidery, women kidnapped …
