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The lines don’t have any breaks in them. Quilters make stitches over the design lines. These create a channel between them. Then, sewers thread a cord of quilting wool through the channel.
Split ends and frizziness will be a common occurrence if you don’t apply heat protection, and that’s just the start of it. However, did you know that the right bed linen also makes a huge difference?
You can make a baby quilt to swaddle a newborn or an infant who’s too big for receiving blankets. You can make these in any size, but if you want to make one for a crib or toddler bed, you can use these dimensions as a guide.
Not only do they add “pop” to a room but they can really help set the overall tone of a space as well—so it’s important that the designer have an eye for color harmony among other things.
Using a satin pillowcase limits tugging and creasing of your skin, resulting in less irritation when you wake up. Have you ever had a really good sleep but noticed your pillow has indented a pattern into your skin at the same time? Yep, that doesn’t happen with a satin pillowcase!
Repurpose your sunroom with a coat of paint and comfortable seating to turn it into a game room. Kate Marker Interiors outfitted this cottage sunroom with a comfy couch and chairs and a round table for board games and rainy day tea breaks.
With this stitching technique, you form a design by joining pieces of fabric that are of varying sizes and shapes.
The location is perfect. It is surrounded by natural beauty and historic buildings. Vezelay and the this area of Burgundy is truly beautiful. Everyone I encountered was friendly and generous with their time.
These advances in technology are allowing textile designers to create beautiful pieces and give them a new level of flexibility in their work. By taking advantage of these new technologies, they can create tailor-made pieces that are more complex, detailed and realistic than ever before, while still maintaining a reasonable budget and timeline. This is the future of textile design—one where imagination has no limits!
Hand-crafted zellige tiles add a textural feel to modern spaces, with pelo two tiles exactly alike. Marie Flanigan Interiors added character to a modern farmhouse kitchen with gleaming zellige tiles on the wall behind the range. Try them in the bathroom as well, alone or mixed with other tiles depending on your style.
Brighten up your stairwell here with a warm shade of yellow paint that will glow like a ray of sun, like this small staircase from Studio Peake.
Silk can be used in thousands of different ways. For our purposes, however, we’ll separate the potential purposes of this fabric into consumer and industrial categories:
Take a shortcut to high glamour by designing an all-black kitchen. Louis Duncan-He Designs mixed black cabinets and a black stone waterfall island with stainless steel appliances and light wood flooring for a dramatic look in this remodeled midcentury modern kitchen.
These Italian-style quilts usually feature parallel lines of stitches. They have an inner layer of batting or yarn too, which gives these quilts Em excesso dimension when making stitches. Trapunto comes from the Italian word trapuntare