This tutorial Turn A Photo Into A Sketch For Making Coloring Books is for anyone who has Photoshop. I tried it out on some photos of flowers I have taken and with a bit of tinkering I was able to quickly produce a line drawing suitable for needlework. So if …
Mary-Frances of Frequently wrong but never in doubt has completed here block for the Katrina Survivor All that Jazz quilt. You can read her announcement here Alison Aller is another finisher you can see her block on her blog. I love the beaded fringe on this one. As you can …
I notice that Valeri has finished her Katrina block and just in case you missed it Linda has also completed her block for the All that Jazz Katrina relief quilt
Liz of Dreaming Sprials has a new portfolio website which houses her textile work including images of her fabric post cards and journal quilts. Also housed on the site are images of work while she undertook the City and Guilds course in the UK . Liz’s design board and visual …
Thanks to Serena Fenton of Layers of Meaning for pointing towards an article on Suzhou or Su embroidery by Esther Read. Don’t miss it this style of embroidery is truly exceptional. Yes – I am still catching up on my blog reading …
Linda at Chloe’s place has been loading images of an old embroidery book into a flickr account she created for that purpose I simply love old embroidery books like this and particularly when people put them online as this is the way old stitches get rediscovered by needleworkers and crazy …
Drum roll please . . . Da daaaaaaa . . . The All that Jazz block is off the hoop finished and done! As you can see the magnolias spread and the wisteria grew a bit. The mask and the jesters hat came up OK with beading. For those who …
