by Suzann Thompson | Oct 15, 2006 | Crochet, Life, Polymer Clay, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
I’m freeeeeeeeeeeeee! For those of us who filed an extension on our 2005 tax returns, today is the last day to get them in the mail. And we did it with over an hour to spare, even though our little post office closes at 3:45! Hurray! There’s even better...
by Suzann Thompson | Oct 10, 2006 | Art Quilt, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
My computer was ready to pick up on Friday, a day later than promised. “It took a lot longer to download the updates than I thought,” said the computer repair guy. If he needed a day longer to get it back up to speed, it would have taken me a week longer,...
by Suzann Thompson | Oct 2, 2006 | Crochet, Knitting, Polymer Clay, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion, Workshops
What an exhausting week! But it’s that good kind of exhausting, where I’ve done exactly what I love to do all day long. Tuesday, we did the “Freeform Knit/Crochet an Underwater Scene” class. Stephanie combined elements from several pictures for...
by Suzann Thompson | Sep 28, 2006 | Crochet, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
People have done TextileFusion for a long time! Here’s a fabulous tablecloth that combines an Irish Crochet trim and eyelet embroidery. I don’t know its history, except that it is the last piece I bought before we moved away from Sheffield, England. It is...
by Suzann Thompson | Sep 25, 2006 | Crochet, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
This little collar is a great example of crocheting over a core thread or padding, which was a common technique in Irish Crochet. What you do, is wind thread around your finger or something similar. Then you make as many single-crochets as possible over the resulting...
by Suzann Thompson | Sep 21, 2006 | Art Quilt, Crochet, Knitting, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
After reading the post before this, one of my regular readers (Hi Mom!) said, “When you put all those buttons on the background, they obliterate the patterns.” Hmmm. The patterns look pretty good. Do I really want to obliterate them? Nooooo so it was time...
