February Cornucopia

 

Here's my February Cornucopia, which includes a wide array of links to things I found interesting or useful that I've collected over the 28 days.  It is scheduled to post on 2/28/21, so hopefully I'll remember!

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Managing sashiko thread, a great tutorial from Red Thread Studio. I hate when my hanks of embroidery thread for sashiko get all tangled up the second I take it out of the packaging. This method is brilliant and I'm going to try it.

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Reprint and Repurpose is a very cool idea, repurposing high-quality fabric found in thrift stores and printing it with hand-cut original stamps.

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From Annhilation to Acceptance: A Writer's Surreal Journey, author Jeff VanderMeer's visceral description of writing his Southern Reach Trilogy. What a trip this story is, just like the amazing and surreal books.

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For California gardeners, go check out Calscape, a website by California Native Plant Society, where you can put in your address or click on a map and get a helpful list of various types of native plants that will work in your own garden. I'm interested in planting a butterfly garden, and there's 258 likely and confirmed plants that will work as butterfly hosts.

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One of the teachers I took a class from at QuiltCon Together, Latifah Saafir has a free quilt design up at Robert Kaufman. I think this would be a beautiful quilt with some of the Tula Pink fabrics that have large designs that you hate to cut up.

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In a lecture about walking foot quilting that Jacquie Gering gave at QuiltCon Together she mentioned how she was learning the Quilt As You Go method and recommended the tutorials that Marianne Haak has on The Quilting Edge. Marianne has a great Instagram that's really worth following, she does truly amazing things with circles.

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New Sewtites product, super adorable hearts from Tula Pink. This is such a great size for EPP  hexies.

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