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Design Workshop: Almost Done

by Suzann Thompson | Apr 26, 2005 | Art Quilt, Knitting, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion

Whoa. This barely comes in under my Tuesday night deadline, as long as you live in Central Standard Time or points west. The Design Workshop sample is almost done. It needs a few highlights, which I will add with some dots of acrylic paint. The fish needs a shadow,...

Design Workshop: Knitted Background and Fabric Cutting

by Suzann Thompson | Apr 24, 2005 | Art Quilt, Knitting, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion, Workshops

Here’s the background of the Design Workshop sample, knitted on the Ultimate Sweater Machine, with keyplate 2-dot. The class sample begins above the dark row about three inches from the bottom. I made a tuck in the side, to see if I could mimic the shape of the...

Design Workshop: Choosing Yarn

by Suzann Thompson | Apr 23, 2005 | Knitting, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion, Workshops

On June 2, 2005, I’m teaching a design workshop in Indiana for Camp Iwannaknit 2005. We will design, knit, and embellish an underwater scene, using marine life photographs as inspiration. With only six hours to do all this, we will design on the fly (no gauge...

The Machine for Handknitters

by Suzann Thompson | Apr 23, 2005 | Knitting, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion

I’ve been a hand knitter for over 35 years, and I know that a lot of hand knitters don’t like knitting machines. That is why I need to let everyone know how much and why I love my Ultimate Sweater Machine, sold by Bond America. Here it is, set up out on...

Design Workshop: Composition

by Suzann Thompson | Apr 22, 2005 | Art Quilt, Knitting, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion, Workshops

The knitted embellishments are done, with a few alterations from last post’s plan. You’ll see I made two new orange coral pieces. The lighter one just didn’t look right. Sometimes you can’t tell until you knit it and put the pieces together. I...
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Most of us who grew up in the US have pledged our Most of us who grew up in the US have pledged our allegiance to the flag of the United States of America hundreds of times. We pledge our allegiance to the flag of a nation with liberty and justice for all.

That means liberty and justice are not exclusively for the people we like best, but for everybody else in the United States as well.

So let’s honor our pledge by voting for candidates who will protect liberty and justice for all, because we have pledged our allegiance to that concept over and over again.

All means all.
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…And Justice for All quilt was completed in 2023, by me.

#PledgeOfAllegiance #LibertyAndJusticeForAll #Vote2026 #AllMeansAll #FiletCrochet
The early morning sunshine lit up Charles‘s garden The early morning sunshine lit up Charles‘s garden. 💛🧡
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#FallGarden #SquashBlossoms #Marigolds #CowpenDaisy
Wow! This lovely collar* comes with a Certificate Wow! This lovely collar* comes with a Certificate of Authenticity by some supposed authority in the UK, certifying that it is real, authentic Irish crochet. 

Do you see the problem with this?

It goes to show that some claims on Certificates of Authenticity are not true. And that not all people calling themselves experts are what they claim to be.

It certainly is beautiful lace, just not Irish Crochet or any other kind of crochet.

* It really is a collar, but I wanted you to be able to see the details of its construction. Should have taken a picture of the whole thing. Maybe next time.
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#CrochetDetective #NotCrochet #KnowYourLaces
An avalanche is like a landslide, only it is made An avalanche is like a landslide, only it is made of snowflakes instead of mud. That is what this quilt, Snowflakes Create Avalanches, is about.

Fellow Snowflakes, let's vote and cause an avalanche for Democracy.

More about this quilt at https://textilefusion.com/blog/

#TextileFusion #Vote #Snowflakes
Close! Mostly I used this No. 10 crochet cotton by Close! Mostly I used this No. 10 crochet cotton by the American Thread Company. Definitely vintage. ❤️
Crocheting these vintage bedspread/tablecloth/doil Crocheting these vintage bedspread/tablecloth/doily motifs has been educational. I think they’re beautiful, but I’m -not- tempted to make a bedspread or tablecloth out of any one of them. 

The square at top right, designed in the 1940s or so by Cecilia Vanek, is from the Puritan Bedspread aka County Clare Bedspread. Free pattern here: https://freevintagecrochet.com/bedspread-patterns/star208/puritan-bedspread-pattern

The other three are in 150 Favorite Crochet Designs, Ed. Mary Carolyn Waldrep (Dover), and online sources.

#CrochetSquares #BedspreadSquares #VintageCrochet #Motif #Crochet
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