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Visit Celebrate Doilies in Austin

by Suzann Thompson | May 2, 2018 | Art Quilt, Celebrate Doilies, Doily Adventure, Exhibits & Programs, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion

It’s May, so come and see the Celebrate Doilies exhibit at the German Free School, 507 East 10th Street, Austin, Texas! It is open for viewing on Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. all through the month of May 2018. The German Free School was built by...

Celebrate Doilies in Comanche

by Suzann Thompson | Apr 15, 2018 | Art Quilt, Celebrate Doilies, Doily Adventure, Exhibits & Programs, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion

The Celebrate Doilies exhibit was at the 4 North Event Center in Comanche, TX for a week in March. The vintage building on the courthouse square matched the vintage doily wall hangings and posters beautifully. You might say that Comanche is in northwest Central Texas,...

Santa Train Finished on Time

by Suzann Thompson | Mar 5, 2018 | Life, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion

All kinds of things happened last fall. I was going to add, “as usual,” but really, more than the usual stuff happened last fall. My final Christmas in July report got forgotten in the shuffle. The good news is that the Santa Train was finished on time! In...

Celebrate Doilies on the Move!

by Suzann Thompson | Mar 4, 2018 | Art Quilt, Celebrate Doilies, Crochet, Doily Adventure, Exhibits & Programs, Knitting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion

If you hurry, you can see the Celebrate Doilies exhibit at the W. K. Gordon Center for Industrial History, in Mingus, Texas. The exhibit will be there through March 15, 2018. The photos are from the presentation Sandi Horton and I gave on Sunday, February 25th. My...

Fishy Cento

by Suzann Thompson | Dec 17, 2017 | Art Quilt, Crochet, Knitting, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion

Britain’s National Gallery has a film series called Art Gold. On Twitter recently, the Gallery urged people to watch, using #artgold. People and museums took over the hashtag, tweeting golden artifacts, golden jewelry, and art of gold. What a wonder! I got into...

Snowman Boards Santa Train

by Suzann Thompson | Sep 30, 2017 | Life, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion

Last time I reported on my Christmas in July project, the Santa Train was being chased by a headless snowman. Poor guy! At least he got a head (ahead?) in Week 9, but it would be two more weeks before the snowman was finally able to climb aboard the train. The...
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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
A year ago I was breathing a bunch of sighs of rel A year ago I was breathing a bunch of sighs of relief, because I had finished an intense crochet design project. I designed, crocheted, wrote patterns, and took step-by-step pictures of a bunch of flowery bookmarks. Most of the ones in the picture made it into a kit published by Quarto.

More about this at my blog:
https://textilefusion.com/last-year-at-this-time-flowery-crocheted-bookmarks/ or go to link in bio.
The Town ‘n Country Quilt Guild of Stephenville, T The Town ‘n Country Quilt Guild of Stephenville, TX, close at 4 PM today. There’s time, if you live close by, to visit all the quilts and the Country Store, where you can find lots of previously loved items for sale. There was a pretty good stack of doilies yesterday, priced to move. Somebody bought a couple or three, and I don’t know what happened after that. Maybe there are some left.
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