by Suzann Thompson | Jul 21, 2016 | Art Quilt, Celebrate Doilies, Crochet, Crochet Garden, Doily Adventure, Knitting, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Quilters and other crafters are generous people! I picked up this long, skinny seed packet panel at a quilt guild meeting—someone was cleaning out old projects and brought it to the giveaway table. The panel was about 11 inches wide and 37.5 inches long. It lay in my...
by Suzann Thompson | Jun 13, 2016 | Crochet, Crochet Bouquet, Crochet Garden, Life, Quilting and Crafting, TextileFusion
A couple of flowers and some buttons dressed up this backpack to the point where my 13-year-old daughter was willing to use it for her recent trip to the state of New York (as opposed to driving into town and buying a new one). We carefully removed the...
by Suzann Thompson | Jun 1, 2016 | Art Quilt, Celebrate Doilies, Crochet, Crochet Bouquet, Crochet Garden, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Blue and orange “Czech Festival Flowers” from Crochet Garden made me think of hollyhocks and other tall flower stalks. For ideas on how to arrange with tall flowers, I typed “tall flower arrangements” into Google Images. The computer screen...
by Suzann Thompson | Apr 18, 2016 | Crochet, Crochet Garden, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Crochet While Waiting Life and travel include a lot of waiting–at least for me they do. Thank goodness for knitting and crochet, which makes the time fun and productive–like last Sunday, when I was in a long, long security checkpoint line at the airport in...
by Suzann Thompson | Apr 16, 2016 | Art Quilt, Crochet, Crochet Bouquet, Crochet Garden, Doily Adventure, Knitting, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
I was happy this year to present a couple of Open Studios sessions at the International Quilt Festival in Chicago. It’s great to talk to so many interested and enthusiastic people. For “Quilting Sweater Knits” I hurried up and prepared two more minis...
by Suzann Thompson | Mar 25, 2016 | Art Quilt, Crochet, Crochet Bouquet, Crochet Charm Lace, Crochet Garden, Cute Crochet World, Earthen House, Life, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
When Amy and Donna of crochetville.com asked me if I would take part in this year’s National Crochet Month blog tour, I was thrilled. That was last September, and I started thinking about my blog post right away, because March would be here in the twinkling of...
