by Suzann Thompson | Sep 20, 2006 | Crochet, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Having done a lot more crochet lately, I trawled around to find out what crochet groups Yahoo had to offer. Wow. I found some just right for me. One was the Irish Crochet Lovers group. I fell in love with Irish Crochet in the early 1980s, when I found some reprints of...
by Suzann Thompson | Sep 16, 2006 | Crochet, Polymer Clay, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
There’s a brag in this post, so beware! I was looking for crochet pattern books. My search brought me to amazon.fr, the French branch of amazon.com. The French word crochet means “hook” as well as referring to the craft of crochet. A search on the...
by Suzann Thompson | Sep 10, 2006 | Art Quilt, Crochet, Knitting, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Black was my original choice for the binding around the heart quilt. I took it along with me to The Flying Needle, Stephenville’s wonderful quilt shop (on the loop, near Ace Hardware). I tried several black fabrics with small white patterns. They...
by Suzann Thompson | Sep 4, 2006 | Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
When I started writing this, it occurred to me that a lot of people are painting yarn these days. But this post is about a painting -made- with yarn. The artist spreads a layer of beeswax onto a board and presses the yarn into the beeswax. The best-known yarn...
by Suzann Thompson | Sep 1, 2006 | Knitting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion, Workshops
“Cables, Bobbles, and Braids” is one of my workshops at the Wool Festival at Taos (and, I hope, at some other venues in 2007). The workshop samples are coming along nicely. I’m really proud of this sample, because it shows how cable stitches are...
by Suzann Thompson | Aug 31, 2006 | Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Charles had to pay a visit to the Geology Library at UTexas, so he said, “Want to go to Austin for a day?” I considered for about a zeroth of a second, and said, “Yes!” My plan? To spend some time communing with the fibers that be at Hill...
