by Suzann Thompson | Jul 13, 2015 | Art Quilt, Exhibits & Programs, Knitting, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
This is Mama Lion, one of the baker’s dozen of art quilts in my TextileFusion exhibit at the Quilt! Knit! Stitch! show in Portland, Oregon, next month. Mama Lion was made specifically to honor Lion Brand Yarns, the sponsor of the exhibit. Since the early days of...
by Suzann Thompson | Feb 12, 2015 | Knitting, Quilting and Crafting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Moths have good taste. They chose to place their offspring on my beloved cherry sweater, which I knitted by hand from Sasha Kagan’s Big and Little Sweaters. On their way to adulthood, the baby moths nibbled more holes than I wanted to repair. So I put the cherry...
by Suzann Thompson | Nov 24, 2005 | Knitting, Retro Blog Post
This is part two of Intarsia How-To, in response to several questions and comments. Thanks for those! Two common ways to prepare yarn for intarsia work are bobbins and yarn butterflies. Here’s an empty bobbin, a bobbin with yarn wound around it, and a yarn butterfly....
by Suzann Thompson | Oct 22, 2005 | Knitting, Retro Blog Post
Intarsia How-To In intarsia, you knit areas of color, guided by a graph. Depending on how big a color area is, you can use a ball of yarn, a yarn butterfly that you wind on your fingers, or a bobbin. I’m going to call them bobbins, since that is the traditional...
by Suzann Thompson | Oct 12, 2005 | Knitting, Retro Blog Post
What is this? An alien fungus set to take over the world? No. It is just the beginning of my Rexlace bag, nestled against a bladderpod, growing in my future studio (those boards are part of the foundation framing). I wanted to try knitting Rexlace after seeing its...
