by Suzann Thompson | Sep 26, 2005 | Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
At last! TextileFusion techniques have debuted in a sewing magazine! My article about recycling an old sweater into a vest appears in the November issue of Sew News, pages 66-70. Here’s the cover, so you can recognize it on the newsstand. I’m ‘New Looks...
by Suzann Thompson | Sep 25, 2005 | Knitting, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
The pink tassel finally has a finial. Hurray! It should have been knitted circularly, but it wasn’t, so it has a seam. The cover made me think of a sweater, so I thought of making the seam like a cardigan band. “Let’s play buttons!” I said to...
by Suzann Thompson | Sep 23, 2005 | Crochet, Earthen House, Knitting, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
With one thing and another, this pink tassel is taking way too long! Since the last post about it, I finished knitting the top, knitted on a loop, darned in ends, and rolled and sewed the knitting to change the fringe into a tassel. All that’s left is to knit a...
by Suzann Thompson | Sep 10, 2005 | Art Quilt, Exhibits & Programs, Knitting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
The Knitting and Crochet Guild of Great Britain has this small wall hanging of mine in its collection–Thank you, Liz Gillett! The Guild has a fantastic collection and a grand vision for preserving and displaying old and new knitting and crochet for future...
by Suzann Thompson | Sep 8, 2005 | Crochet, Knitting, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
In preparation for one of my workshops at Taos and for the ThinkPinkKAL, I’ve been working on a pink tassel. First, I threaded 4mm pink beads onto some heavy sewing thread and crocheted them in a chain st. The fringe is begun by overspinning a few yarns together...
by Suzann Thompson | Sep 5, 2005 | Life, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
The busy-ness of this week left me pretty tired in the evenings, so I relaxed by listening to my new book tape from the library, Miss Julia Meets Her Match , by Ann B. Ross, read by Claudia Hughes. It’s good, and while listening, I have made lots of progress on...
