Stitch Simple is a very different kind of fabric shop: owner Jen offers pre-washed, pre-pressed, custom-cut fabrics and quilt kits. She approached me for a review and offered a create-your-own-quilt kit to me. They have a new quilt pattern periodically, and back when I created mine it was a Chinese Coins-inspired lap quilt. The current [...]
I couldn’t resist a Lena Corwin-style book review with this recent acquisition to my fabric, textile, and pattern book collection: Vintage Feed Sacks: Fabric from the Farm by Susan Miller, for Schiffer Books. The text, while offering lots of valuable and interesting history and information for collectors, needed some better editing, but it’s not a [...]
Need a last-minute gift for the textile/design aficionado in your life? Books are the ticket. Here are my favorites — some are specifically about fabric, some are just about pattern. There are more surface design books in my Amazon store that look scrumptious, but these are ones I actually own and can vouch for. [...]
If you’re not already a fan of Anna Maria Horner’s fabric, you will be after perusing her new sewing book Seams to Me: 24 New Reasons to Love Sewing. Her color and design sense really come through every page and project. She not only wrote the book and designed the 24 sewing projects, but took [...]
If, like me, you’ve been a Yarnstorm reader for any amount of time, you know it goes without saying that Jane Brocket’s sense for vivid color and pattern is pure genius. Her new book, The Gentle Art of Domesticity: Stitching, Baking, Nature, Art, & The Comforts of Home, is full of the wonderful color inspiration, [...]
Here are two new additions to the True Up Amazon Store. Petite Pattern: Spring & Summer, via Print & Pattern … click over to see some of the patterns inside. It’s sold out right now but it looks like one worth waiting for. Fabric Science by Joseph J. Pizzuto – recommended to me by Harmony [...]
Printing by Hand by Lena Corwin Hardcover spiral-bound, 144 pages Publisher: Stewart Tabori & Chang Lotta Prints: How to Print With Anything, From Potatoes to Linoleum by Lotta Jansdotter softcover, 120 pages Publisher: Chronicle Books Since the crafty community is very close-knit and supportive, I doubt there’s an actual battle between the two New [...]
The July/August 2008 issue of Selvedge Magazine is out now. I have a digital subscription through Exact Editions — highly recommended since it’s far more affordable than the paper version and gives you access to all the back issues. The issue’s theme is “Indian Summer” and contains a few standout articles on block printing in [...]
The book/CD combo Cutting-Edge Patterns and Textures has just been released. It contains some patterns by Lara Cameron of Kirin & Co. amongst other surface designer heroes of mine. Woo! Can’t wait to get my hands on a copy.
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