by Suzann Thompson | Sep 3, 2005 | Art Quilt, Earthen House, Knitting, Life, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
This is the walk-through gate on the west side of our new place. When I saw the finished gate, unexpected feelings and insights came to me. Before the gate, we had some clumps of trees with a couple of little glades here and there. Now, the gate separates two glades...
by Suzann Thompson | Sep 2, 2005 | Knitting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
I Googled INKnitters reviews magazine the other day, and found lots of reader comments and reviews. Here’s one. They were fun to read. No surprise that most knitters loved the articles. That made me proud to be one of the long-standing article contributors to...
by Suzann Thompson | Sep 1, 2005 | Knitting, Life, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
I finished my little felted bag—the first one I’ve ever made. It was fun to see the how knitting changed in the felting process. I tried a decorative sewing stitch on it, but found that it was too hard to regulate the feed of the felt through the machine....
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 19, 2005 | Crochet, Knitting, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
My husband went down to Austin earlier this week for business. Eva, Ella, and I tagged along. We stayed in the Holiday Inn at Town Lake, and I would recommend it if you’re planning a visit to Austin. Go ahead and pay $10 extra for a lake-view room. It’s...
