by Suzann Thompson | Aug 17, 2015 | Crochet, Crochet Bouquet, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
You never know how things come around and go around, until you can look back. Recycling is totally about things coming around and going around, and here’s what I can tell you about that. My family has been into recycling since I was a kid. We started by...
by Suzann Thompson | Jul 27, 2015 | Crochet, Crochet Bouquet, Cute Crochet World, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
The box on the front porch was from Sterling Publishing. Probably copies of Cute Crochet World in German. I was expecting them at some point. But there was more! The Russian Crochet Bouquet was a total and happy surprise! Long ago, I took a semester of Russian, but...
by Suzann Thompson | Jun 25, 2015 | Crochet, Crochet Bouquet, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
“Millefiori” on pages 25-26 of Crochet Bouquet: Easy Designs for Dozens of Flowers offers small flowers in five different petal shapes. Four of the petal styles are joined with a technique that gives an attractive and neat finish to warm the cockles of...
by Suzann Thompson | May 1, 2015 | Crochet, Crochet Bouquet, Crochet Garden, Cute Crochet World, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
This tutorial is written using United States crochet terminology. The half-treble or htr is a step between the double crochet (dc) and the treble crochet (tr). It’s a little taller than a dc, but shorter than a tr. I wrote more about the htr at Crochet Spot....
by Suzann Thompson | Nov 10, 2014 | Art Quilt, Crochet, Crochet Bouquet, Knitting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
I wish September began with a P, so we could use it in this catchy name: Productive Peptember. Okay, I’m laughing, because it looks so funny in print. Microsoft Word doesn’t have a synonym for “productive” that begins with S, so I’m off...
by Suzann Thompson | Sep 10, 2014 | Art Quilt, Crochet, Crochet Bouquet, Knitting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
The Firewheel Meadows quilt is due at the 2014 Threads of Texas Quilt Show on October 1. So far, I’m making steady progress toward the finish line by appliqueing four flowers a day onto the quilt. See the flowers at the left of the picture, with the petals...
