Unravelling by MegWeaves -
"Weaving, living a life of a weaver, and other unravelling thoughts by the Goddess of Procrastination and Expert Forgetter"
- post on Davison, Bergman, and Quigley
CoverletWeaver.com by Gay McGeary - inspired by the works of early Pennsylvania Germans
JoyOfWeaving.com Joyce Brisebois Best Tension Device Ever Joyce's comment="Thicker thread can handle crosses. Thinner thread is better going under and over all at the same time."
The Arecibo message is a 1974 interstellar radio message carrying basic information about humanity and Earth sent to globular star cluster M13 in the hope that ...
InkScape Inkscape is a professional vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It's free and open source.
Knitting Machines
img2track program reads a graphic image file and converts it to pattern data formatted for a Brother KH-900-series knitting machine.
The pattern can be loaded into the knitting machine with a USB-to-serial adapter cable.
Textura Trading Company fibers and yarns including UV Color Changing Embroidery Thread & Ultra Fine Tinned Copper Wire (yarn) - Easthampton, MA - 8/2015 reported no longer in business
Herrschners They send out a standard craft catalog.
TurtleStitch - Coded Embroidery Turtlestitch uses Snap!'s "pen module" which it interprets as a needle and transforms its output into widely used embroidery file formats.
See also wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/TurtleStitch
TurtleStitch is based on Snap!, but it is more similar to BeetleBlocks. It is used to generate patterns for embroidery machines. It is easy to use, requiring no prior knowledge in programming, yet powerful in creating nowels patterns for embroidery. It is useful for designers to experiment with generative aesthetics and precision embroidery as well as a tool for innovative workshops combining an introduction to programming with a haptic output.
My Computer Geek friend Rick shocked my socks off with pictures of a pattern he had created with Turtle Stitch and embroidered on a Brother 770 as part of a Stem project.
Machine Embroidery in 6 Easy Lessons, Part 1 Embroidery expert Eileen Roche joins Nancy to help you tackle those embroidery projects that have been on your "to do" list forever.
Black slaves created & used quilts to communicate "getaway plans" of the route of the underground railroad to freedom.
The coded messages demonstrated expertise & ingenuity in the areas of
cartography (mapping)
cryptography (encoding secrets)
geometry
"Follow the Drinking Gourd" - from the National Security Agency
"All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites." --- Marc Chagall
"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration.
Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt
of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the
process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea,
you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something
else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely
unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that's
almost never the case.." --- Chuck Close