Category: Inspiration
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A sneak peek at Observe, Collect, Draw!
I find temperature blankets interesting but terribly boring. The idea of documenting something daily, I understand. Documenting the temperature, though, seems a bit depressing when I know it will only graphically represent the slow burning of our planet. Perhaps that reminder is not something I need right now. Enter our…
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A sneak peek at Costume in Detail: 1730-1930 by Nancy Bradfield
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Today’s sneak peak book is Costume in Detail: 1730-1930 by Nancy Bradfield. I first came across this book when I was scrolling Pinterest. The hand drawn images and notes on construction caught my eye, so I set about finding the book. Happily it was still…
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An Outlander Based Project?
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Full disclosure, I don’t watch Outlander. I started reading the first book, but it just wasn’t my thing. I watched a little of the show, but again, not my thing. Now, though, Outlander seems to be creeping into my world. Specifically, costumes keep showing up…
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A sneak peek at Design Essentials: The Quilter’s Guide
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Do you have books in your collection that you have been hauling around for a long time because something in them speaks to you about art in such an inspiring way that you need to have it in your collection always? Enter Design Essentials: The…
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A sneak peek at In the Wilds by Nigel Peake
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes This week we will be looking at Nigel Peake’s In the Wilds. I asked for this book for the holidays last year, and I am so glad I did. Peake has a very distinctive way of drawing and a warm and wonderful view of the…
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A shawl adventure
Estimated reading time: 11 minutes As a rule, I do not like hand-painted yarns with lots of color transitions. To my eye, they make crochet look muddy and strange, especially when I use lace stitches, and I use a lot of lace stitches. The color in hand-painted yarn just jumps…
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A sneak peek at Organic Embroidery by Meredith Woolnough
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Organic Embroidery by Meredith Woolnough is a seriously fun book filled with nature inspired designs. Woolnough works in thread and sews her designs on to water soluble stabilizer paper, which is then dissolved away, leaving open designs that call to mind the sea and nature. …
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A peek at The Quilt Design Coloring Workbook
Estimated reading time: 2 Minutes Quilting books are full of inspiration for crochet projects! And I like quilts. I like them a lot. What I hate is sewing. Sewing is a chore that makes me want to never touch fiber again, yet I am a textile crafter, so what to…
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A Peek at Strange Material
Estimate reading time: 3 minutes I pulled Leanne Prain’s Strange Material to share as an inspiration book this week. It’s a book about textiles and art and storytelling. Some of the artists presented are quite overt and use words and photographic images in their pieces to tell a story while…
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A Peek at Fairy Tale Fashion
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes This week’s inspiration book is Fairy Tale Fashion by Colleen Hill. I think some people would refer to this as a coffee table book because it meets the definition by being large and well-illustrated. What people forget in classing such things, though, is that many…
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