I must admit, I tend to go for the utilitarian aprons myself :-) I do enough baking that my aprons get messy awfully quickly around here… But when my mom sent me this link to “An Assembly of Aprons” from Threads Magazine I was charmed with the different styles & the care and attention […]
I just found out about an amazing tour through parts of Europe, that focuses on embroidery & fiber art.
Which got me thinking - if there’s one company doing tours specifically for fiber artists, there’s got to be more, right?
Oh yes :-)
Fiberarts Magazine has compiled a list of fantastic tours available. There are trips to Japan, […]
This is too wonderful!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDaB-NNyM8o
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I haven’t had much spare time lately to play around with my new/old treadle machine (pout, pout) I’ve been trying to find a manual for it, but haven’t had any luck with tracking down any information for “Supremacy” machines. My fiance even took up the search (hmm… I wonder if he hopes that he’ll get […]
I recently wrote about some of the handwork that was passed down to me when my grandmother passed away:
http://www.tangledthread.com/precious-heirlooms/
It’s now up to me to take care of it for the next generation. So what are you working on, not just for yourself, but for someone else special?
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My grandmother passed away recently, and I’ve been helping my parents to clean her house. There have been a couple of items that have really spoken to me, and have come to live at my house. I was given a small crocheted doily that my great-grandmother made, a lovely framed petit-point flower and an embroidered […]
I have always been fascinated by the gorgeous needlework of the Middle Ages and Renaissance periods. It is not a subject field in which I am an expert, nor have I devoted the time to becoming one. Many other people have, however, and their works are invaluable for a stitcher who wants to […]
Several years ago I bought a copy of Azade Akar’s _Treasury of Turkish Designs: 670 Motifs from Iznik Pottery_ because I loved the images in it. Eventually I transferred one of them to cloth and embroidered it. It was, in my biased opinion ;), quite lovely. But it didn’t quite look ‘right’, […]
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