TUTORIAL VIDEO

Carole Ventura has a Flat Tapestry Crochet Tutorial video on her blog that will help everyone overcome those problems of blurry edges on images.

Image courtesy Carole Ventura

Most back & forth flat tapestry crochet looks like the example on the left.

How much better the one on the right looks, so neat and precise.

Check out this excellent video and practice this technique and you too will never have those wobbly bits to offend the eye in your creations.

Here's an idea! Say you wanted your animal (in the above example) to have a furry coat, but a sharp head & legs, you could combine the two techniques. This would give an extra dimension to the work.

Thanks again Carole, you are the wind under our wings.

More of Carole's video tutorials on uTube here

Anu

WANDA'S DREAMS

DREAMS MADE REAL

Wanda in one of her Wonderful Dreams

Wanda Blount is extraordinary talent who specializes in creating tapestry crochet high fashion hats. She says she dreams of her creations before she take hook to wool.

Carole Ventura has written up Wanda's inspirational story very comprehensively on her Tapestry Crochet Blog, so I won't steal her thunder, you can read all about Wanda's crochet there - see also Carole's sidebar links.

Wanda herself has posted a lot of her pix on Flickr.

These wonderful hats are worthy of Paris catwalk fashions in my dreams...
....yes I dreamed I saw Naomi Campbell sashaying down the catwalk in Wanda's creations!
Maybe this dream will come true for Wanda too!

Whet your appetite here with a few of her astonishing beauties:






Thank you Wanda for letting me bring your art here.

Now I go to dream.....perchance to crochet.....

Anu

Stacey's Tapestry Crochet Mandalas

Stacey Glasgow with examples of her extraordinary prize winning
tapestry crochet mandalas.

These are so inspiring I just had to add them here for us all.

Go here for Carole Ventura's full story of Stacey's work , with lots more pix and the links to her Yahoo site.

So many talented artists love to work in this medium of Tapestry Crochet.
Go to the Flickr Tapestry Crochet Group link on sidebar to see many beautiful examples of this interesting yarnwork style.

Happy crochet

Anu.

Tapestry Crochet from Turkey

Another extraordinary page of Tapestry Crochet came from the Carole Ventura link today. It is a MUST SEE.

Go to http://www.tapestrycrochet.com/blog/?p=189 to view the work of Tapestry Crochet artists from Turkey.

Come share the bubbly.

Nice venue, but where are the guests?

Have you ever had a party, but nobody turned up? Happened to a friend of mine once. He made the house look wonderful, put out great refreshments, brought in a band, lighting and even set up a fountain, bubbling & spotlit with pretty colors, in the entrance.
But everybody had gone to a festival over by the beach. So he opened the French champers & sat watching the fountain...but hey...they all rolled in around 1 am by which time he was a very merry host indeed and it became an all night rave.

This is feeling a bit like that. I hope the other tapestry crochet aficionados get here soon.

Vibrant talent from Finland.

Meanwhile I'll share this bit from the Carol Ventura archives, sent to me by Google FeedBlitz, about the beautiful precise work of Maarit Aalto from Finland. If you read it and follow the links you'll find your work can become as precise as hers. My own work is a case in point. From now on I'll be working her way and creating clear and precise images.

Also today a new Flickr Tapestry Crochet Group member me si, also from Finland, arrived with her vibrant hats. Must be something to do with the northern lights!

Hope you'll join me here soon, a party of one is very limited fun.

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