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Here are my stacks of fabric and collection of machines; my work space. I’m quilting on the far machine, Bernina 440. My old faithful...

In answer to question that have arisen, I personally do use Woolite. When I was a teenager, we used Ivory or Lux Flakes, and I still...

Fair Isle knitting is a type of stranded color knitting originating in Fair Isle, which is the smallest, barely 3 miles long by 2 miles...

Free motion is what the word implies. It is the ability to manually move the object being stitched in any direction the operator wants. ...

All the histories I have read say that anyone who could hold a pair of needles (“pins”) knitted; men, women and children. The less...

Aran Island Designs incorporate many elements of th e fisherman knits designs of the Channel Islands, Great Britain and Scotland, but...

The Aran Islands are composed of three main Islands on the outer edge of Galway Bay off the south east coast of Ireland. The largest of...

Patterns were derived from ordinary objects in the lives of the knitters: cables of various kinds imitating ropes, diamonds as in the...

In the past, when I thought of fishermen’s knits, I pictured the cream or off white cabled and generously patterned sweaters that...