by Suzann Thompson | Oct 2, 2006 | Crochet, Knitting, Polymer Clay, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion, Workshops
What an exhausting week! But it’s that good kind of exhausting, where I’ve done exactly what I love to do all day long. Tuesday, we did the “Freeform Knit/Crochet an Underwater Scene” class. Stephanie combined elements from several pictures for...
by Suzann Thompson | Sep 28, 2006 | Crochet, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
People have done TextileFusion for a long time! Here’s a fabulous tablecloth that combines an Irish Crochet trim and eyelet embroidery. I don’t know its history, except that it is the last piece I bought before we moved away from Sheffield, England. It is...
by Suzann Thompson | Sep 25, 2006 | Crochet, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
This little collar is a great example of crocheting over a core thread or padding, which was a common technique in Irish Crochet. What you do, is wind thread around your finger or something similar. Then you make as many single-crochets as possible over the resulting...
by Suzann Thompson | Sep 21, 2006 | Art Quilt, Crochet, Knitting, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
After reading the post before this, one of my regular readers (Hi Mom!) said, “When you put all those buttons on the background, they obliterate the patterns.” Hmmm. The patterns look pretty good. Do I really want to obliterate them? Nooooo so it was time...
by Suzann Thompson | Sep 20, 2006 | Crochet, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Having done a lot more crochet lately, I trawled around to find out what crochet groups Yahoo had to offer. Wow. I found some just right for me. One was the Irish Crochet Lovers group. I fell in love with Irish Crochet in the early 1980s, when I found some reprints of...
by Suzann Thompson | Sep 16, 2006 | Crochet, Polymer Clay, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
There’s a brag in this post, so beware! I was looking for crochet pattern books. My search brought me to amazon.fr, the French branch of amazon.com. The French word crochet means “hook” as well as referring to the craft of crochet. A search on the...
