Jessie at Harding Hill Designs is celebrating the release of four new 2-1/2″ strip patterns with a giveaway on their blog. Click HERE to see all four designs and to enter the giveaway.
Teaching opportunity for textile artists
If you live in or can visit Canada, you may be interested in this request for proposals from artists:
… Read More...The Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles (MCCT) invites you to submit projects for workshops aimed at the general public for our
Crumb Quilt Along #2
Jo at Jo’s Country Junction is hosting her second Crumb Quilt Along. Wondering what crumb entails? She explains,
… Read More...I am going to tell you right up front that crumb quilting is going to be a challenge for those of you
Classes: An Adventure in Crazy Quilting! Spring 2012
Heads up! An Adventure In Crazy Quilting! classes were so successful they will be offered again in 2012. Click HERE to get details.
Via Sharon B at Pin Tangle.
Stitches in motion
Salley Mavor reveals the secret of how they created the animation of her stitched signature for her Rabbitat video. Check out her blog post.
Adorn: Updated and delicious
Our beloved Orna Willis has launched a totally revamped web site! She says,
… Read More...We came up with a new “Notions” section full of the little odds and ends that make life easier. We will be adding more new items in
Giveaway: Tatting goodies
Jon of Tat-a-Renda is having an excellent giveaway for her registered blog readers: two winners will receive one of the tatting stashes shown above. Go to her blog post to enter before September 20.
On sale: Cirque Alphabet
Check out this new offering from Urban Threads:
… Read More...You’ve been asking for a long time, and we’re delighted to be making our first foray into alphabet designs! The new Cirque Alphabet available in 3″, 2″, and 1″ heights for
Frozen Ghost Vodka
Frozen Ghost Vodka. What could be a better drink to serve for Halloween? Find the story of it HERE, spotted on Incredible Things.
Colonial embroidery exhibit in Boston
Tricia of The Embroiderer’s Story gives us the heads-up about a don’t-miss-it embroidery exhibit. She says,
… Read More...Today the last of the three exhibits on Colonial Boston Embroideries at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston opened. The third installment is focused
Counted Wishes Festival
Mark your calendars my little stitching buddies! It’s almost time for the Counted Wishes Festival which will start September 15 and go through September 21. There will be new designs, specials, prizes, cyber-classes and games. Sign up for the Newsletter… Read More...
Daniel Johnston designs are back!
Jenny Hart and Sublime Stitching have just re-released Daniel Johnston‘s embroidery patterns. Yea! Go to the order page.
Ed. note: Jenny Hart neither requested nor compensated this post. I just looooooove these patterns!
First Look: Colette Patterns Fall 2011 | Coletterie
Three great new patterns from Colette Patterns! I can’t wait to see the fabric combos people come up with, you can check out the Colette Patterns Flickr group to keep up with people’s creations.
Lyric’s new beady workshop
Lyric Kinard of Lyric Art has a new workshop DVD on the market: Bead It Like You Mean It. She says,
… Read More...In this workshop I will teach you the basic techniques for embellishing fabric with beads including
+ sewing one
We forked. We talked. We rocked.
Saturday was BIG. CraftGossip held its first-ever Craft Bloggers Meet-up in my home town, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. Four of us CG editors were on hand to share the fun: (pictured left to right) Stacie Hooder, jewelry making; … Read More...
New Blog: Roadkill Rescue
Chances are you are familiar with Beckie of Infarrantly Creative. To her friends, she’s known as the queen of roadkill rescue, turning another person’s junk into a sought after treasure. I have featured many of Beckie’s amazing repurposed projects… Read More...
Free stuff from Sew Daily
Sew Daily is offering a few free eBooks right now and seems to have quite a few free tutorials. I decided to go for the eBook on organizing sewing supplies.
Free Online Tips and Sewing Room Patterns from from Sew … Read More...
Newsy: Modern Quilting & Sewing Survey at GenQ
Generation Q wants to hear from you! They’ve created a survey to find out some things about the modern quilter/sewist. Click HERE to read Melissa’s great article that includes a link to the Survey.
Editor’s note: I just took … Read More...
Winners of H&L’s annual competition
Hand and Lock has announced the winners of the 2011 Hand and Lock Prize for Embroidery. And as always, they are phenomenal. Go to the H&L post for links to galleries of photos of the winners.
Learn to make lace in New York
The 31st Annual Ithaca Lace Day and Conference will be October 7-10 in Ithaca, New York, USA. Workshops will include Traditional Milanese Lace, Armenian Knotted Lace, Traditional Binche Lace, Torchon with Fine Threads, and Introduction to Bobbin Lacemaking. Go to … Read More...