I was reminded me of this bag as a result of a friend agonising over how much to embellish a denim bag. When I was in my early 20’s I went backpacking. I was already addicted to stitching and had two pairs of jeans one to wear and one spare. …
A few weeks ago Jerry was in Copenhagen and he paid a trip to the National Museum and has recently loaded photographs of bronze age clothing that were preserved in Danish bogs. I think some of the historical costumers will be interested to see these images.
Before the break when I went on holidays I was working on a series of posts that related to crazy quilting. This morning I have finally got back in the swing of things. I thought I would speak about another styles of embroidery often found on contemporary crazy quilts. One …
Gosh I missed this, but it is a site worth looking at for the fabric postcard eyecandy alone. Fiberart For A Cause is an American Cancer Society Fundraiser which was run this year and since it was so successful looks as if it will be running next year too. The …
How do you source materials for crazy quilting? You have a number of options. You can simply buy materials and embellishments but that is an extremely expensive way to go. I am sure that one of the reasons I love crazy quilting is because this style of work appeals to …
Silk Ribbon embroidery has long been associated with Crazy Quilting. The richness of silk ribbon seems to marry well with the extravagance of Crazy quilting. One of the pleasures of Crazy quilting is that you can incorporate all sorts of embroidery techniques. Apart from Silk ribbon embroidery you can experiment …
Coloured Floss Checklists for DMC, Coats, Anchor, Dimensions, and Bucilla flosses are provided by cyberstitchers.com which you can print out. On the same site a handy Floss conversion calculator is provided for you to convert floss codes from Bucilla, Dimensions, J & P Coats, Anchor, and DMC to any of …
