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...
by Suzann Thompson | Sep 3, 2005 | Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Oh, the wonderful Designer I!!!! I have used it for about a year and a half now, and I think it is a great sewing and embroidery machine. Having this machine has given me so many options for sewing and embroidering my knitting—a TextileFusion dream. I’ve been...
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...
