Now Playing Redwork in Germany
Jun 16th, 2006 | By Gidget | Category: Inspiration, Misc How-TosI’ve added a site to the blogroll’s inspirations of the month. From the photographs of redwork, the tutorial on how to make your own Floor-standing scroll Quilt Frame, to the absolutely gorgeous photographed items and their colors are truly inspiring. Check it out at 
addendum: I found this image on Redwork’s site… one of my favorite design groups, which we use over at the mercantile. Ann the Gran’s design exchange is infamous among embroiderists.
Her website states:
The Design Exchange now offers more than 6,000 designs contributed by many talented digitizers from all over the world, all available absolutely free for inspiration and use by what has become hundreds of thousands of passionate embroiderers.
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Image Removed At The Request of Redwork in Germany
This brings to point one of the questions I have about Flickr, how is crediting done? Not being a flickr user, I don’t know if it’s even possible. Anyone?
First of all thank you, I am flattered to be on your blogroll’s inspirations of the month list.
It is always nice to know that others like the work I love to share via my blog and my flickr album….
As for your question regarding crediting on flickr it is up to every album owner what he or she wants to say about their photos or not. I add descriptions and like to give a little background about my pictures, share sources, and/or history about the items on my photos with the flickr community. And also non-flickr members can at least read the descriptions and comments though unfortunately not add comments to my photos.
Ann the Gran is a wounderful machine embroidery design site. I am not a machine embroider but I am sure she did a great job digitizing the vintage illustrations she used for her “Mother’s Memories†designs. I first came across those vintage children pictures myself in the books from the Dover Collection (one of my favourite pattern sources by the way). Judy M. Johnson and also Carol Belanger Grafton put together wounderful collections of permission-free illustrations from many late-nineteenth / early-twentieth century books and old magazines. In those books you can find among many others some of the little girls Ann the Gran used. Later via an online group of Redwork hand-embroider I heard of the book “Emroidered Childhood Memories†from Brenna Hopkins & Nori Koenig published by the American Quilters’s Society. If you don’t have a computer to scan and enlarge pattern you’ll have the entire set of the little girls (and many more pattern) black on white to copy and trace. In this book the set is not called “Mother’s Memories†but “Tip Top Toddlersâ€.
Now, that said there is my “little shy girl†photo; I don’t like the black frame you added. If you sign up for a free account on flickr you will see that I allow any flickr member to blog my photos but I restricted downloads. I don’t want my pictures to be altered or used without my permission, which I am sure you’ll understand…. Best wishes, “Redwork in Germanyâ€
Redwork in Germany,
Thank you for sharing your information!
It’s a shame that I would have to join Flickr to see that you cannot do a screen capture for commenting on. I have removed the picture and apologize whole-heartedly for any infringements.
As for Ann the Gran, I see that her website states
“Ann the Gran’s Mother’s Memories” title on her page and I took for granted they were her original artwork, not just her machine embroidery files. That is where give credit where credit is due would help to clarify.
Oyvey… I’ve still got a lot to learn!
Thank you Redwork in Germany!