I am sitting here with an absolutely stupid grin on my face. Mary on Norfolk Island a lady well known on the Aussie crazy quilting discussion list has started a blog Devon House Recollections . Mary is another crazy quilter who is lovely lady, does great work and I am …
It’s the end of school holidays here in Australia. Watching the kids in the street it’s the stage of the break where the combination of heat and boredom leads to squabbles and spats. This is when the odd craft or indoor activity is needed. I spotted these paper dolls the …
I notice that Linda at Chloe’s place is blogging more of her swaps from the Chains of Hearts group that she established a few years ago. Although this is a group based in Australia people swap world wide. (Correct me here if I am wrong Linda) It’s an easy going …
I received an email this morning from Candida, giving me the heads up on a link found via Meggiecat . I love the net and blogs when stuff like this happens so thanks to both I found out that Lambert’s Hand-book of needlework published in 1842. At 290 pages I …
How to use Shisha glass in embroidery is explained and illustrated in diagrams on the Rajmahal site . On the same site there is also information on using metal threads for gold work techniques. Possibly most useful on the site as there is not a lot online about Tambour embroidery …
Many people are storing and archiving images of their work on CD. Not only family happy snaps from digital cameras but textile artists are archiving images of their work using this format. Many people are unaware of the problem, I didn’t realise that some CDs only have a life span …
Lindsay Landis has published an article Taking Professional Looking Photos Without a Professional which many textile artists will find helpful, as it is a tutorial that covers not only taking photos but editing images in Photoshop. Sorry removed the link as it was out of date and went nowhere! Follow …
