Today I’m thrilled to host the grand finale of Cherri House‘s blog tour to celebrate her new book City Quilts. OK, confession — I was just late in asking to be included, so Cherri was kind enough to tack me on to the end of the tour! Jessica is the rightful grand-finale host, but I [...]
A textile designer makes the front page of Google! Josef Frank, architect and father of modern Scandinavian design, would have been 125 years old today. New Vintage Lady is showing the fashion and textiles pages from vintage department store catalogs every Sunday. (via Retro Age Vintage Fabrics) Deborah of Whipstitch has an amazing post on [...]
Amy Butler and her booth was gorgeous as always. Her Fall 2010 fabric collection Soul Blossoms is still only on paper, but that didn’t stop her from whipping up quite a display. And there is some other news … Yarn! Organic yarn! It’s called Belle and it’s from Rowan. There are two weights, Aran and [...]
{ Anna Maria in her maybe-award-winning-again booth at Spring Quilt Market } I’m sure you’ve learned all about Anna Maria Anna Maria Horner’s new book, Handmade Beginnings: 24 Sewing Projects to Welcome Baby, on all the fantastic blogs that have hosted her earlier blog tour stops. If not, well. Let me tell you. Handmade Beginnings, [...]
The Daily Swatch features a piece of vintage fabric (almost) every day. Themes change periodically. Please add your own examples of the theme to the True Up and/or Vintage Fabric Flickr pools. Vintage Vera fabric, from the collection of my-name-is-annie on Flickr. And speaking of Vera: Did you see that there is a book on [...]
Lizzy House, designer of adorable fabric lines Lizzy Dish, Red Letter Day, and the upcoming Castle Peeps (all for Andover Fabrics), recently spilled about a book she’s written (well, an e-book, but a book’s a book in my book) called How To Enter The World Of Textile Design: For The Quilting Industry. Since I started [...]
The Sewing Bible: A Modern Manual of Practical and Decorative Sewing Techniques by Ruth Singer Potter Craft, 2009 It used to be that if you asked for my recommendation on a good comprehensive sewing guide, I would say the Reader’s Digest Complete Guide to Sewing (RDCGS for short) –hands down, no hesitation. (Aesthetically, I don’t [...]
Twinkle Sews: 25 Handmade Fashions from the Runway to Your Wardrobe by Wenlan Chia Potter Craft, 2009 Linen Wool Cotton: 25 Simple Projects to Sew with Natural Fabrics by Akiko Mano Trumpeter/Shambhala, 2009 Like Susan Wasinger’s Fabricate, which Mary Beth reviewed last week, today’s books both are great for sewists wanting to explore different kinds [...]
I Love Patchwork: 21 Irresistible Zakka Projects to Sew by Rashida Coleman Hale Interweave Press, 2009 Rashida Coleman Hale writes the blog I ♥ Linen and has a shop of the same name. With just one glance at her famous Blossom Pincushions, you can tell that she has an amazing eye for color and combining [...]
Interweave Press invited us to be part of their virtual book tour for Meg McElwee’s new book, Sew Liberated (see my review, too!). How could we pass up a chance to interview one of our favorite bloggers and authors about her stash? We could not, that’s how. Hi, Meg! Thanks for talking with us today. [...]
Hey all! We’re sure you’re here looking for our interview with Meg McElwee of Sew Liberated on the occasion of her new book from Interweave Press of the same name. We’re experiencing some engineering difficulties, so please sit back, relax, visit the duty free shop, don’t storm the counter … we’ll be boarding as soon [...]
Fabricate: 17 Innovative Sewing Projects that Make Fabric the Star by Susan Wasinger Interweave Press, 2009 The beauty of Susan Wasinger’s Fabricate is the way she shows you how to create beautiful fabric, not just shop for it. For some of us living in the wilds of the American Midwest (far from a Bolt or [...]
Design-It-Yourself Clothes: Patternmaking Simplified by Cal Patch Potter Craft, 2009 When I read about Design-It-Yourself Clothes: Patternmaking Simplified by Cal Patch (ooh! She has a blog!) on Disdressed and on Angry Chicken, I knew I had to have it immediately. You see, I sewed my first dress a couple months ago, and it turned out [...]
Prepare yourself for tiny button people! Amy Barickman is the genius behind the vintage-flavored Indygo Junction, The Vintage Workshop, a great source of vintage images and clip-art for creative projects, and vintage-inspired fabric designs. Her latest fabric line, for Red Rooster Fabrics, is based on her 2008 reprint of the 1929 classic Sew-It Book. Tiny [...]
Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys by Kate Fletcher Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2008 Most of us consider the growing and harvesting of fibers and the production, printing, and finishing of the cloth in our assessment of whether a fiber is a “green” choice. But too often, oversimplification, myths, and greenwashing by marketers cloud the truth. [...]
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