by Suzann Thompson | Nov 24, 2005 | Knitting, Retro Blog Post
This is part two of Intarsia How-To, in response to several questions and comments. Thanks for those! Two common ways to prepare yarn for intarsia work are bobbins and yarn butterflies. Here’s an empty bobbin, a bobbin with yarn wound around it, and a yarn butterfly....
by Suzann Thompson | Nov 19, 2005 | Art Quilt, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
I posted earlier this month about how some workshop leaders have steered students away from using yellow because it is supposedly “difficult.” Woolwinder and Furrworld commented, saying that they had never heard that about yellow. I’m glad this folly...
by Suzann Thompson | Nov 14, 2005 | Life, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Thanks to Bob Dollar, Nero Wolfe, the Dallas Cowboys and the Texas Longhorns, the latch hook snowman rug/wall hanging is completely latched. I listened to tapes of Annie Proulx’s That Old Ace in the Hole (Bob Dollar is the main character), and a couple of Rex Stout...
by Suzann Thompson | Nov 11, 2005 | Knitting, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Yes, we were playing buttons again. I get a little desperate for change sometimes, after sorting through the button pile for ages. My eye fell upon my double-honeycomb swatch. “Look, Ella,” I said, “we can snuggle the buttons into the little nests on...
by Suzann Thompson | Nov 6, 2005 | Life, Retro Blog Post
My two-year-old Ella and I ‘play buttons’ a lot. We pour the big jar out onto a blanket, sort the buttons, pick out our favorites, and make up stories about them. The biggest ones are the daddies, the middle-sized ones are the mamas, and the small ones are the...
by Suzann Thompson | Oct 31, 2005 | Crochet, Earthen House, Retro Blog Post
We were at our new house site. The foundation guys were finishing up for the day. “Eva. see what he’s doing with that cord?” I said. My daughter looked. “Yeah,” she said. “What do you call that, when you do it?” I asked....
