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Alt Tassels and Trims Workshop

by Suzann Thompson | May 28, 2005 | Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion, Workshops

The name of one of the classes I will be teaching at the Taos Wool Festival is Alternative Tassels and Trims. Here are pics of two tassels I made with the alternative method I will teach in the workshop at Taos. Both of these have polymer clay tops, but our workshop...

Button Making Medley Workshop

by Suzann Thompson | May 9, 2005 | Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion, Workshops

My new buttons samples are finally done! The workshop is Friday afternoon, June 3, at Camp Iwannaknit 2005. There’s still room in the class! We will make five styles of buttons: fake lapis buttons and color swirl buttons in polymer clay, felt buttons, and two...

Taos Festival Workshops Open

by Suzann Thompson | May 4, 2005 | Crochet, Knitting, Life, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion, Workshops

The Wool Festival at Taos takes place the first full weekend in October, and you can attend fabulous fiber and textile workshops before and after the Festival weekend. The workshop descriptions are up on the web site, and you can register now. UPDATE 2022: The...

Design Workshop: Seaweed

by Suzann Thompson | Apr 28, 2005 | Art Quilt, Knitting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion, Workshops

I knitted seaweed and coral last night. Now I have a much better idea of what I will need to complete the sample. I will re-knit the bright green seaweed. It was supposed to look more like the dull green, but I made the center rib too wide and the other sts too...

Design Workshop: Quilted and Bound

by Suzann Thompson | Apr 26, 2005 | Art Quilt, Knitting, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion, Workshops

Here’s the sample from the last post, all stabilized, trimmed, quilted, and bound. We got out the button jar today, and I pulled out a bunch of buttons to embellish the piece. We have a great button collection, thanks mostly to people who clean out their stashes...

Design Workshop: Knitted Background and Fabric Cutting

by Suzann Thompson | Apr 24, 2005 | Art Quilt, Knitting, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion, Workshops

Here’s the background of the Design Workshop sample, knitted on the Ultimate Sweater Machine, with keyplate 2-dot. The class sample begins above the dark row about three inches from the bottom. I made a tuck in the side, to see if I could mimic the shape of the...
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Wow! This lovely collar* comes with a Certificate Wow! This lovely collar* comes with a Certificate of Authenticity by some supposed authority in the UK, certifying that it is real, authentic Irish crochet. 

Do you see the problem with this?

It goes to show that some claims on Certificates of Authenticity are not true. And that not all people calling themselves experts are what they claim to be.

It certainly is beautiful lace, just not Irish Crochet or any other kind of crochet.

* It really is a collar, but I wanted you to be able to see the details of its construction. Should have taken a picture of the whole thing. Maybe next time.
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#CrochetDetective #NotCrochet #KnowYourLaces
An avalanche is like a landslide, only it is made An avalanche is like a landslide, only it is made of snowflakes instead of mud. That is what this quilt, Snowflakes Create Avalanches, is about.

Fellow Snowflakes, let's vote and cause an avalanche for Democracy.

More about this quilt at https://textilefusion.com/blog/

#TextileFusion #Vote #Snowflakes
Close! Mostly I used this No. 10 crochet cotton by Close! Mostly I used this No. 10 crochet cotton by the American Thread Company. Definitely vintage. ❤️
Crocheting these vintage bedspread/tablecloth/doil Crocheting these vintage bedspread/tablecloth/doily motifs has been educational. I think they’re beautiful, but I’m -not- tempted to make a bedspread or tablecloth out of any one of them. 

The square at top right, designed in the 1940s or so by Cecilia Vanek, is from the Puritan Bedspread aka County Clare Bedspread. Free pattern here: https://freevintagecrochet.com/bedspread-patterns/star208/puritan-bedspread-pattern

The other three are in 150 Favorite Crochet Designs, Ed. Mary Carolyn Waldrep (Dover), and online sources.

#CrochetSquares #BedspreadSquares #VintageCrochet #Motif #Crochet
A year ago I was breathing a bunch of sighs of rel A year ago I was breathing a bunch of sighs of relief, because I had finished an intense crochet design project. I designed, crocheted, wrote patterns, and took step-by-step pictures of a bunch of flowery bookmarks. Most of the ones in the picture made it into a kit published by Quarto.

More about this at my blog:
https://textilefusion.com/last-year-at-this-time-flowery-crocheted-bookmarks/ or go to link in bio.
The Town ‘n Country Quilt Guild of Stephenville, T The Town ‘n Country Quilt Guild of Stephenville, TX, close at 4 PM today. There’s time, if you live close by, to visit all the quilts and the Country Store, where you can find lots of previously loved items for sale. There was a pretty good stack of doilies yesterday, priced to move. Somebody bought a couple or three, and I don’t know what happened after that. Maybe there are some left.
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