Anne's Crafts

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Friday, August 31. 2007

American Sewing Guild in the news

I was in the Virginian-Pilot on 20th August 2007. No photo of me, but lots of quotes. I got Henry to scan the newspaper. There's a PDF file, but you have to keep jiggling the size of the pages. There's a HTML page that looks like the newspaper layout.
Posted by Anne at 22:51

Sunday, April 15. 2007

Patterns for the Lace Coathangers

I've had some requests for the instructions on how to make the coathangers. Here they are:

Equipment Needed
  • 5m eyelet lace
  • 1 ball 8 ply yarn
  • 5mm knitting needles
  • needle
  • scissors
  • padded coathanger
  • pillow stuffing


Instructions
  1. Cast on 65 stitches
  2. Knit 4 rows
  3. Knit 1 row with the lace
  4. Knit 3 rows
  5. Knit 1 row with the lace
  6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 until 5 rows of lace have been worked
  7. Knit 4 rows
  8. Cast off


[Coathanger]
Posted by Anne in Coathangers at 12:55

Thursday, December 25. 2003

Henry's Silk Tie

Christmas 2001, and Anne surprised me with a silk tie. She got the tie body from somewhere on eBay, and did the silkpainting herself. The style is like the Escher tile patterns, with light blue and white colours so it goes with my suit. I've worn it a few times on special occasions, like the 2002 work Christmas party. It's a special tie for special occasions. I'm really happy with it.

[Christmas Silk Tie]

[Wearing the tie at the work Christmas Party]
Posted by Henry in Silk at 13:19

Sunday, May 25. 2003

Piano Quilt Is Almost There

Right now, the piano quilt is draped over the railings upstairs. All squares have been sewn on. It's waiting for the black keys to be sewn on, and a border attached, a hanging pocket. Then it will be finished and we can get it up on the wall.
Posted by Henry in Quilts at 13:37

Friday, January 31. 2003

Louise's Basket Quilt Finished

It took time to get the base of the basket right, but eventually Anne was happy with it. Once that was done, the squares were ironed down, then sewn together. Anne attached a deep blue border to the quilt, and it was ready for the final embellishments.

[Louise's Basket Quilt]

Here's a closeup of the flowers with a bit of the straw basket.

[Texture in the details of the Flower Basket]

Anne wanted to add to the "basket of flowers" effect, so she attached two little butterflies above the flowers.

[Left butterfly on the basket quilt][Right butterfly on the basket quilt]

The final touch was a ribbon around the base of the basket's handle.

[Ribbon attached to the base of the handle]

And here's the finished basket quilt, with butterflies and ribbon.

[Finished Flower Basket]

Anne finished the basket quilt early in 2003, and took it back to Australia and gave it to Louise.
Posted by Henry in Quilts at 13:38
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