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The Newest Issue of The Flow – The History of Flameworking

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I took the information for this issue of The Flow directly from them since they described it so well. What a great issue. If you love flameworking this is the best magazine for it!

The Summer 2010 issue of The Flow explores the history of flameworking, including several fascinating artist profiles on some of the heroes of the Studio Glass Movement, including Paul Stankard, Gianni Tosi, and Marvin Lipofsky. You’ll also find an historical perspective of early studio setups from the Corning Museum of Glass and an excerpt from Bandhu Dunham’s latest book Contemporary Lampworking Volume III on the history of kinetic glass sculpture, plus coverage of important industry events, and a look at the work of three Glasscraft Emerging Artist Award winners. Eight inspiring full-color tutorials finish out this great issue. For a complete list of features, view our Summer 2010 issue.

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How to Manage a Large Piece of Cross Stitch Fabric

I am known to be really paranoid when it comes to cutting cross stitch fabric for a project. I will math it out, count, recount, think about it, worry, decide it needs to be bigger than math plus my already large margin for error suggests. If I could just be confident in choosing the correct size of fabric I’d have a lot more stitching time!

Sometimes you have a lot of extra fabric beyond where you are stitching because your fabric is too big. Or maybe you’re just working on a big project that leaves excess fabric potentially in your way when you are stitching. 

Hannah Hand Makes has a post all about how to deal with excess fabric on the sides of a large cross stitch project (which is actually a podcast if you’d rather listen). She is talking more about huge stitchalong projects where you need a big piece of fabric than my particular problem of timid cutting, but the same advice applies. 

I am lazy and don’t want to buy new products, so I would probably devise some sort of rolling and clamping situation with items I already have in the house, but she has some great tips for actual products you can buy that will help with this situation such as large hoops, standing frames and scroll frames. One of these solutions would certainly be worth the investment if you’re doing a year long (or otherwise long term) stitchalong or really big project where that excess fabric is going to cause problems. 

Because beyond being annoying, odds are good I’m going to end up stitching right through that extra fabric and making a big mess. 

Check out all the tips for working with a really big piece of cross stitch fabric over at Hannah Hand Makes. 

What’s the biggest cross stitch project you’ve ever made? I’d love to hear all about it!

[Photo: Hannah Hand Makes]