Trials and Tribulations with Quilting, Machine Embroidery, Sewing and Knitting
Posted in Applique, Inspiration, Magazines, Quilting on Oct 8th, 2010
I bought the Homespun magazine (not the current one but the previous issue) because it came with Inspired Machine Applique with Michele Hill DVD. I love doing applique, but I’ve never worked out the best way of attaching my shapes to the background fabric. Michele’s (she’s the one on the left in the image) quilts [...]
Posted in Inspiration, Magazines on Apr 29th, 2009
I received my Inspirations magazine – the above is Nettie Morris’s Washing Day. It’s a thread painting … Imagine the time and effort involved. I’m amazed …
Posted in Machine Embroidery, Magazines, Software on Dec 29th, 2008
I subscribe to the Inspirations magazine and in issue 52 they had this blackwork butterfly by Tanja Berlin. I like it and I would like to try to replicate it with machine embroidery (my hand embroidery is hopeless …). Here’s part of a wing that I’ve been working on in Thred. It still needs a bit [...]
Posted in Magazines on Jan 16th, 2008
My Inspirations magazine arrived today. This is one of my favourite magazines – I have yet to make anything from it, but the pictures are beautiful. and I doubt I’ll ever make anything like these (and certainly not by hand), but they’re beautiful and certainly inspiring.