Fabric Follies Two

Free Tute for Attic Windows Quilt Block

January 25, 2010 at 7:47 am | In Free Patterns, Handcraft, Handwork, Needlework, Quilt, Sewing, Textile Tutorials, Tutorials | Leave a Comment

David’s Galaxy Quilt…this will be my next quilt. I love the way she gets the 45 degree angle.

I’m Back… With Good Quilting News! (free patterns and tute)

January 8, 2010 at 10:28 am | In Christmas, Free Patterns, Handcraft, Handwork, Personal, Quilt, Sewing, Textile Tutorials, Tutorials | 1 Comment

Whew! The holidays are over once again and we are not only into a new year but whole new Decade! How did that happen so fast?

During this period when I have been gone I haven’t just been holiday-ing… ;o) I finished my first queen sized quilt. Love that. I quilted this on my machine and since it’s my first I will forgive myself the pucker…. You can bet this won’t be the last quilt I do… I am now hooked.

Years ago my mom made all of her grandchildren quilts. They were a good lap sized quilt and she didn’t quilt them. A couple of us girls got together with her and we all worked together and tied them. I was thinking of that this morning when I came across this site…

Mary’s Quilts.com … She had many scrappy quilt patterns on her site and this page with instructions (tute) for how to tie your quilts.

I hope your holidays were good. Mine were great. Some of the children and grandchildren came home and one of the grandsons married over Christmas holidays. What a wonderful celebration! A great way to end a year and begin another one….

Christmas Coming… Free Stuff!

December 1, 2009 at 8:43 am | In Christmas, Crafts, Free Patterns, Handcraft, Handwork, Holidays, Sewing | Leave a Comment

I have no excuse. Except one. I found Facebook…. I have spent a huge…HUGE…amount of time on Facebook enjoying the family and extended family that has not been heard from in years…lol

And suddenly here I am looking down the barrel of Christmas and having to hurry myself up!

So I got online and looked at one of my new favorite sites and Wow! Some really cool stuff!

Crafty This and That has some wonderful ideas and lots of printable tags and things….

Have a look… ;o)

Cobbler’s Cabin… Great Free Patterns

November 10, 2009 at 8:43 pm | In Christmas, Crafts, Crochet, Dolls, Free Patterns, Handcraft, Handwork | 3 Comments

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Christmas is coming quickly and if you have young ones who love the American Girl dolls, Cobbler’s Cabin is the place for crochet doll clothes patterns… You’ll also find other patterns like Swiffer Covers and Teddy Bear Clothes.

Have a look…

Free Patterns at Butterick

October 31, 2009 at 8:38 am | In Christmas, Crafts, Embroidery, Free Patterns, Handcraft, Handwork, Holidays, Quilt, Sewing, Textile Tutorials, Tutorials | Leave a Comment

The Butterick website has some really cute patterns on their free pattern page… here… There are several handbags, a retro wrap and one of my favorites is the Sewer’s Organizer… Great gift ideas!

Have a look…

Binding a Book… free tutorial

October 29, 2009 at 7:32 am | In Art, Bookbinding, Crafts, Free Patterns, Handcraft, Handwork, Personal, Scrapbooking, Teaching, Tutorials, Woodworking | Leave a Comment

Pg2_3in A few years ago I decided to put together my own book…. just for fun. It was very easy and took very little time. Now I am thinking about making some for Christmas…

Here is a quick and easy tute … this is not the one I used for this book.. but is much easier and quicker… Could be used to tell family stories, pictures, novels, bind the kids finger painting, make a sewing journal, family recipe book… and on and on…

Fun and Easy How to Guide to Binding Your Own Paperback Books at Home…

Free Ornament Patterns for Christmas Tree… Sue’s Tree House.blogspot.com

October 18, 2009 at 7:11 am | In Christmas, Crafts, Dolls, Embroidery, Free Patterns, Handcraft, Handwork, Machine Embroidery, Needlework, Sewing, Textile Tutorials, Tutorials | Leave a Comment

It’s only 68 days to Christmas… Wow… another year. These little ornaments are precious and would be quick to make as gifts… There’s angels, snowmen and lots of Sunbonnet Sue….

Sue’s Tree House

Have a look…

Free Quilt Patterns.com, Crafty Diversions.com, My Tablet Weaving and SAFF

October 17, 2009 at 8:08 am | In ATC, Beading, Card Weaving, Christmas, Crafts, Embroidery, FPC, Fiber Preparation, Free Patterns, Handcraft, Handwork, Inkle Weaving, Needlework, Quilt, Sewing, Spindling, Spinning, Tablet Weaving, Textile Tutorials, Weaving | Leave a Comment

Thought I would drop in and let everyone know that Free Quilt Patterns.com has some new quilt patterns on their awesome site of hundred or more free quilt patterns… SnowmanQuilted

I’m using the little snowman clipart to remind myself that there are only about 70 days left before Christmas. Wouldn’t it be nice to be done early…lol Have only known that feeling once in my life and wonder if I will ever know it again..lol

Have a look at the quilt patterns… they’re great…

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I finished building the swift and was surprised how easy it was to do. Works like a charm. I have to thank Crafty Diversions for the terrific tutorial. My DH and I put our heads together and made an upright stand to put it on after I took this picture. Then … in my infinite questionable wisdom… I decided to stain and varnish it. Big mistake. It was a smooth as glass… Now it’s more like the treasured plants of the Mojave Desert… sigh All of it will have to be totally sanded again. I used the wrong type polyrethane to do the final coat. Anyway…it will again look like this. And what a wonderful tool….

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I’ve been weaving some more on my large inkle loom. I’ve found that as I use it I have learned that moving the warp is not nearly the job that I thought it would be. It must be grasped in two places, pull down with left hand and up with right hand and it moves very smoothly over the pegs. Love it. This long sampler piece is great. Just wish I lived near someone proficient in card weaving.. Would be so much fun to work together.

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DH and I went to Ozark Mills a couple of weeks ago for another fiber fix. Gail was overloaded with wonderful colors of wool. I bought the merino shown in the photo and some bright yellow Romney. They were packing the trailer and getting ready to leave for SAFF. … Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair in Fletcher, North Carolina. This will be October 23rd, 24th, 25th so if you live in the area or are on vacation that way…stop by and say hello…

Please Get Permission….

October 10, 2009 at 8:45 am | In ATC, Art, Backyard Projects, Beading, Beauty, Bookbinding, Books, Broomstick Lace, Card Making, Card Weaving, Challenges, Christmas, Copyright, Crafts, Creative Commons, Crochet, Diarama, Dolls, Dye Works, Embroidery, FPC, Felting, Fiber Preparation, Free Patterns, Handcraft, Handwork, Health, Historical Textile, Holidays, Inkle Weaving, Knit, Leather, Lucet, Machine Embroidery, Naalbinding, Needlework, Online Classes, Organizing, Painting, Personal, Quilt, Recipes, Refashioning, Scrapbooking, Sewing, Spindling, Spinning, Stained Glass, Tablet Weaving, Teaching, Textile Tutorials, Tutorials, Weaving, Woodworking, Work Room, nalbinding | Leave a Comment

I have put several free patterns that were created by me up on this site. They were uploaded with the thought in mind that others j0210200 might like to use them. If they are used for personal use… that’s great. If they are used to sell the products ..well… I hope millions are made, all the kids are sent to college and that 4th house in Tuscany is available to be bought. The fact is that those patterns were done easily by me. I did not have to take a lot of notes, work out all the sizes and combinations that would work for everyone in the universe.

I put links up to many free patterns. I do this because I feel that if I enjoy these patterns then my readers will probably enjoy them also. I have blogged about this before….. These patterns are put out there for our enjoyment. Some of them are copyrighted. Some may not be formally copyrighted, but there is such thing as Creative Commons. If a person feels that they want to use a pattern for profit of any kind…. PLEASE BE SURE TO GET PERMISSION FROM THE CREATOR! Just because there is a link to a pattern or a site and the word “free” is used does not mean that it is free for commercial manufacture. The owner of this site cannot give you permission to use the pattern for profit. Only the creator can do that.

It is too sad that the reason for this post is misuse of one of the most popular patterns that is linked to here on Fabric Follies Two.

It’s Warped!

October 7, 2009 at 8:22 am | In Card Weaving, Crafts, Handcraft, Handwork, Historical Textile, Inkle Weaving, Tablet Weaving, Weaving | 3 Comments

InkleLoom2 Yesterday I warped it. I used the method that Michael Cook of Wormspit.com talks about … 2 colors only and continuous warp. Here’s hoping that figuring out the double weave process won’t be too difficult.

It’s with at great deal of dismay that I found the pages that helped me so much from Eve the Just are no longer viable links. I don’t know how to look to see if they are cached anywhere else or not. What a loss to the tablet weaving community!

Annie McHale of A Spinner Weaver.com wondered about the movement of the warp with so many pegs… well… it requires a bit of doing (and I’m not sure if would be better if I had done a better job of sanding) but it can be done without much trouble. Since I have never had an inkle loom before I am not in a position to know how easily it should advance. I can say that this is TW4 soooo much easier to use than the small one I have been using that I am totally in love with this one! This first pattern is a simple one… I warped it to try to do double weave alphabets and things, but am having fun just watching this go by…lol