The Purl Bee blog has posted some great guidance for choosing a sewing machine, with particular emphasis on quilters’ needs. If you’re likely to be shopping for a machine soon, be sure to read the blog post first.… Read More ...
Quilters: Get published!
Lark Books has scheduled publication of another in its “500 series”; this time, 500 Quilts. And you can submit your quilt for consideration! No entry fee is required. The submission deadline is October 24, 2008. Get all the details on … Read More ...
Discount on Bargello Revisited
Janet Perry of Nuts About Needlepoint blog is having a special hurt-book sale. She has seven copies of her book, Bargello Revisited, that were damaged slightly in shipping, and she’s offering them at a 20% discount. See Janet’s blog post … Read More ...
Options for floss storage
A post on Pimp Stitch blog made me think about the haphazard way I store some of my embroidery floss. So many cool tools are available! Pimp Stitch walks us through some of the popular and new options, and ponders … Read More ...
Quilting giveaway
Debi of Quilting with Debi blog is having an awesome giveaway in honor of her 200th blog post. You could win two Moda charm packs – Wee Play and Peek a Boo, the Q is for Quilt book, and two … Read More ...
Inspiration: Erratic Needle
Erratic Needle‘s felt butterfly brooches make me sing. Go see them.… Read More ...
Recycle sweaters into a quilt
This Instructables tute by Sun Moon Lake has been around a while, but I was glad TipNut reminded me of it in one of her recent blog posts. Use cast-off or thrifted sweaters as the raw material to piece a … Read More ...
Needleworkers: Represent!
You’ve probably seen posts in recent weeks about CraftGossip’s new flickr pool. If not, Hey! CraftGossip now has a flickr pool!
You can upload photos of your creations. And in your profile, you can let us know how to find … Read More ...
New tatting-pattern site
Tatter extraordinaire Jon Yusoff of Jon’s Thread Escapade has opened a new blog, Jon’s Pattern Page, to hold her free (for personal use) tatting patterns and tutorials. Her latest tute shows how to add a corner to a facing-rings … Read More ...
Free online class: Thread painting
Mary Corbet of Needle ‘n’ Thread blog has posted a rockin review of Helen Stevens‘ site, Fritillary and True Embroideries. (Read the whole article; you’ll enjoy it.) I got especially excited when I read this: “If … Read More ...
Needlework LOLs
Connie posted a link on the Stitchin Fingers forum to Threadbared.com, a blog that ceased being updated more than a year ago, but whose hilarity lives on. I’m so glad the site hasn’t been taken down! … Read More ...
Inspiration: SnappyBibs
Jacqueline Asher, aka SnappyBibs, is a goddess of machine embroidery. For most of her products, she draws and digitizes her own designs, and they rock. You can see her work on her blog and in her Etsy shop… Read More ...
Tutorial: Put your paintstiks to work
It’s a good thing there’s no video camera attached to my computer. I would be embarrassed if you could see the happy dance I’m doing right now. Shake shake shake.
And what has given me such joy? A new tutorial … Read More ...
Join the hoopla
Hoopla, “the world’s most revolutionary craft zine,” is seeking contributions of opinion pieces, craft action reports, patterns and tutorials, photos of finished crafts, and (in a few instances, perhaps) poetry on the topic of Radical Inspiration. “We want to … Read More ...
Tutorial: Thumb pincushion
When I saw the link to this tutorial on tipnut.com, I had to squeal and squirm a little bit! Brilliant! Whether I’m doing applique or just repairing a hem, the handiest possible spot for a little pincushion would be … Read More ...
