Scrap Wrap-up
Well , Use Up Your Scraps month has come to an end. It was a valuable experience for me. I was able to use up a lot of scraps, and to organize the… Continue reading
Monthly Archive: January, 2013
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Textile Trends Trivia – the Answers
Yesterday I gave a little pop quiz. I’m a former teacher, I can do that. Let’s go over the quiz and see how you did! Q 1) The French artist was named Trouvelot… Continue reading
Textile Trend Trivia
While the tide of fashion rolls on, some innovations never catch the wave of public favor or profit. They end up as fashion footnotes. Here is a little quiz about textile trends that… Continue reading
Reading About Red
Long winter nights are a perfect time for armchair travel – reading my way around the world and through the centuries, and learning a little more about textiles. If The Root of Wild… Continue reading
Sew Many Variables, Sew Little Time
As part of Use-Up-Your-Scraps month*, I decided to focus on the different types of stabilizers, needles, and thread that are stuffed in drawers in the studio. I got all of these notions in… Continue reading
Dye Samples Revisited
In the midst of using up my scraps, I was hunting in the closet for that last little piece of a fabric I needed, and came across all my naturally dyed samples from… Continue reading
On the Trail of a Textile Legend
In the late 1800s, Candace Wheeler was a textile designer, a business partner of Louis Comfort Tiffany, owner of her own design business, a writer, a founder of a rural artists’ colony and… Continue reading
Carnival of Scraps
It’s been pretty noisy in my sewing room lately. My January goal was to round up my scraps, turn them into useful blocks, and store them away tidily until I needed them. But… Continue reading
My Basic Quilt
Since I am going to be using up scraps this month, I thought I would start by showing my basic technique for a quilt. Think of it as the “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”… Continue reading
Plans, Projects, and Resolutions
I love to plan. I probably have more fun planning than other people do actually doing things. I can’t think without making a list. So here are a few of my plans for… Continue reading