A chapter on shawls from Harper’s magazine December 1850 is available online. It describes the Cashmere shawl as “ A garment capable of appearing the most feminine and graceful in the world.” The article is a from a fashion spread of the day, is beautifully illustrated, and explains how the …
For anyone who is looking for text to use on a embroidery or crazy quilted project, designing a needlework sampler, or simply looking for some fresh ideas to spice up Christmas cards and gift tags fonts are a great source of inspiration. Changing fonts in visual journal apart from training …
There is more eye candy online this morning in the All tha Jazz Gallery and more blocks arrived yesterday so I will get those up as soon as I can. Unfortunately one of our invited participants for the All that Jazz Katrina Survivor Quilt project is unable to make a …
With December 8th looming I received a couple of more blocks in the mail yesterday. I will have these online as soon as possible hopefully tomorrow morning. On my post that announced the gallery for this project a comment was left by Julia White suggesting a poster be produced and …
I found this handy Glossary of Embroidery terms which appears to be a handy resource site for machine embroiderers.
The big news this morning is that the gallery for the All that Jazz Gallery is now online with the first of some extremely beautiful blocks I have received being published. The index page to the project is divided in two, with an invitees section, and further down the competitors …
How many times have you wondered where an expression came from or what it meant? The Phrase Finder looks to be a handy desktop resource that deserves bookmarking. This site provides information on the meanings and origins of English phrases, sayings, quotes and clichés. Just in case your inbox is …
