by Suzann Thompson | Jun 25, 2015 | Crochet, Crochet Bouquet, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
“Millefiori” on pages 25-26 of Crochet Bouquet: Easy Designs for Dozens of Flowers offers small flowers in five different petal shapes. Four of the petal styles are joined with a technique that gives an attractive and neat finish to warm the cockles of...
by Suzann Thompson | May 30, 2015 | Art Quilt, Crochet, Knitting, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
The last post about the Antelope Horns wall hanging ended with me sewing the patches to a foundation cloth. Here’s how they looked, compared to the photo, once I finally finished the foundation piecing. Next step: quilting! I used a regular presser foot, because...
by Suzann Thompson | May 15, 2015 | Crochet, Crochet Garden, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
The Rafflesia is a great big flower—about 3 feet across. It’s the inspiration for this tiny version, called “Rafflesita.” The “-ita” means little. The pattern for “Rafflesita” is on pages 122-123 of Crochet Garden: Bunches of...
by Suzann Thompson | May 15, 2015 | Crochet, Cute Crochet World, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
You probably heard about the rain we had in Texas over the last month. One big question at our house was, “Where did we put the umbrellas?” We haven’t really needed them for the past couple of years. I’m not convinced they would have kept...
by Suzann Thompson | May 14, 2015 | Life, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
We played with polymer clay a lot in the late 1990s. It was a great way to pass the time during the frequent rainy, gloomy days in Sheffield. And modeling something so pretty and colorful, and then being able to bake it and make it permanent was very compelling....
by Suzann Thompson | May 1, 2015 | Crochet, Cute Crochet World, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
It’s prom season on Cute Crochet World! Oh my–if only the prom dresses of Earth were as easy and inexpensive to make as the prom dresses of Cute Crochet World! Our bank accounts would be a lot fatter. While humans can’t necessarily wear this dress...
