by Suzann Thompson | Aug 20, 2007 | Crochet, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Eva and I set off for Addison, Texas, last week to find out what the National Button Society Show was all about. Eva joined the other junior members at ten o’clock on Thursday morning to hear the rules of the Amazing Button Race. She sought me out at lunchtime,...
by Suzann Thompson | Aug 13, 2007 | Knitting, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
We tagged along with my mom to the German Texan Heritage Society meeting last weekend. The girls and I took a couple of hours to shop at the venerable Yarn Barn of San Antonio, at 4300 McCullough. The Yarn Barn has an impressive selection of needlework books, old and...
by Suzann Thompson | Aug 7, 2007 | Knitting, Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
In 1949, my grandmother gave my mother a book for her birthday. It was the first craft book I ever saw as a kid. The title is Gestaltende Hände, ein Werkbuch für Mädchen, by Hildegard Fochs. That means Forming, Shaping, Modeling, Designing or maybe Creative Hands, a...
by Suzann Thompson | Aug 3, 2007 | Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Chautauqua has the most Victorian-style gingerbread of anyplace I’ve ever been! Some of the houses look like they’ve been trimmed with lace. In fact, some of the pretty trims had me wishing for my crochet hook and some yarn. I was sure they would make good...
by Suzann Thompson | Jul 31, 2007 | Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
I’ve always loved that a “yarn” can be a story, as well as something you can knit or crochet with. Some people even take the connection further and say “she spun an outlandish yarn” to mean “she told an outlandish story.”...
by Suzann Thompson | Jul 26, 2007 | Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Upon graduation, each CLSC class commissioned a banner to carry in an annual parade, and a mosaic to be installed at the Hall of Philosophy, an outdoor lecture theater. Each mosaic has the year and the theme of the class, like the one above. I’m back from the...
