by Suzann Thompson | Aug 30, 2005 | Art Quilt, Crochet, Knitting, Life, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
This one’s called Snowflake Dreams of Spring , and I started it last year in hopes of entering it into the Spring International Quilt Festival in Chicago. Time slipped away, and I didn’t make the deadline. Also, I felt I had to redo some of the quilting...
by Suzann Thompson | Aug 23, 2005 | Art Quilt, Knitting, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Today I sewed the last of 89 buttons on my Ladybug wall hanging. Probably everybody knows this trick already, but I learned it only recently from Sue Hausmann’s Sew Fast, Faster, Fastest. Double your sewing thread, and thread it into the needle, so that you have...
by Suzann Thompson | Aug 15, 2005 | Life, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
My favorite things to order from the Herrschner’s needlecraft catalog are felt Christmas ornaments with lots of sequins. They are so cute! It’s so fun to cut along the pre-printed lines and sew the sequins on the dots provided, with the pre-measured...
by Suzann Thompson | Aug 3, 2005 | Life, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post
It’s been years since we had a vacation on Galveston Island, but I hope it won’t be so long next time. We were there last week with my husband’s family in a lovely house right on the beach. The kids (including my husband) built sand castles and swam....
by Suzann Thompson | Aug 1, 2005 | Crochet, Life, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Have I mentioned that I’m proud of my daughter? She will be 10 in about a month. Even as a small child, she amazed me with her ability to observe and her eagerness to try new things and test her own ideas. We were cleaning out her room recently, when we found...
by Suzann Thompson | Jul 19, 2005 | Crochet, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion, Workshops
Bullion or twisted fringe is just one or more strands of yarn that have been twisted so much that they twist back on themselves. You can make your own, twisting by hand or using an old-fashioned, hand-cranked egg-beater. You can buy a special hand-cranked twisting...
