NANCY PETTWAY- BRICKLAYER VARIATION

Work Clothes Quilt
During an adventure to the dismal craft section of the Brooklyn Public Library I fell upon a book which celebrates, documents, and gives voice to the Quilters and Quilts of Gee’s Bend.

LORETTA BENNETT- CRAZY QUILT
Gee’s Bend is piece of land surrounded by three sides with water of the Alabama River. [...]

Each week, the Hello Craft Podcast collects stories of making and buying handmade.
In this week’s episode, Tina Seamonster (that’s me!) learns to embroider! And relax!
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I just completed teaching my first embroidery class at the amazing and wonderful yarn store  Brooklyn General and… It was so fun.

We learned a multitude of stitches and each student came up with fun and fabulous projects to take home and continue working on.  This is my hilarious sampler of stitches. I just randomly did [...]

Have you thought about starting a daily project?
Looking around my studio, trying to find inspiration for today’s new daily piece, I see plenty of papers scattered about. I’m a list maker. If you visited my studio you would see a lot of these slips of paper are filled with lists. I make shopping lists, to-do [...]