by Suzann Thompson | Mar 25, 2017 | Art Quilt, Celebrate Doilies, Crochet, Doily Adventure, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, Texas Crochet Heritage, TextileFusion
Thank you to Amy and Donna of Crochetville.com for inviting me to join this year’s National Crochet Month blog tour! This is a wonderful thing they do, in addition to providing an internet home for crocheters all year round. Today, the love of crochet ties...
by Suzann Thompson | Mar 9, 2017 | Art Quilt, Celebrate Doilies, Crochet, Knitting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
The Zwiebelmuster design is full of flowers, leaves, stems, and curlicues. They can all be crocheted, appliqued, beaded, and embroidered. So that’s what I did, and it took some time. You know from reading the earlier post about the Winterling wall hanging, that...
by Suzann Thompson | Feb 24, 2017 | Art Quilt, Celebrate Doilies, Doily Adventure, Knitting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
My sweet friend Hazel gave me a cardigan she bought years ago in Scotland. It was a pretty example of Fair Isle knitting, done with raglan sleeves. Thank you, Hazel! The star pattern put me in a wintery, snowy frame of mind, and luckily there were just enough complete...
by Suzann Thompson | Feb 14, 2017 | Art Quilt, Celebrate Doilies, Crochet, Doily Adventure, Knitting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
We don’t normally go around leaving coffeepots on the bed, but this is a special coffeepot. It’s from the now-closed Winterling chinaware factory in Schwarzenbach an der Saale in northern Bavaria. My great-grandmother, Lina Schödel, worked there. One of...
by Suzann Thompson | Jan 8, 2017 | Crochet, Crochet Garden, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
When I proposed the Curlicue Poncho for Love of Crochet magazine over a year ago, I thought it was a long shot. What a happy surprise it was to receive the acceptance letter last spring! Then the work began. Remind me never (almost never) to propose a garment in...
by Suzann Thompson | Jan 4, 2017 | Art Quilt, Celebrate Doilies, Crochet, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
A Worthy Accomplishment at the Sacred Threads exhibit, 2017 Sacred Threads exhibits quilts about spirituality, joy, grief, healing, peace, and inspiration, every two years. A Worthy Accomplishment joined the show in 2017, and I introduced the piece with a story about...
