Category: Quilt

Top 10 Pages on Shibaguyz Designz This Week

9/14/2014

The Top 10 Most Popular Pages on Shibaguyz Designz for The Week Of September 7-13, 2014

You clicked it… that picked it! These are the top 10 articles, tutorials, and patterns from the pages of Shibaguyz Designz. Click on the title or the preview photo to see the full page. Thanks for coming around this week… see y'all next week!

#10: Permission

I wrote this post because of the overwhelming number of messages we receive that say something like:

"I would love to make (insert Shibaguyz Designz pattern name here) but I just wouldn't look good in (insert color in pattern photo here)."

OR

"I would love to make (insert Shibaguyz Designz pattern name here) but I can't afford/can't find the yarn you made it in."

This post is our official Permission to go on with your own FAB creative self, pick a color or yarn you like, and CREATE!

Permission by Shibaguyz Designz - The permission we want to give to all the FAB crochet and knitting folks out there.

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Inspirations Past and Present - part 1

8/22/2014

This post started out as a story about inspirations full of pretty photos of the quilts and afghans we have collected over our lifetimes from our mothers, great-aunts, grandmothers and great-grandmothers.

These masterpieces hold a lot of personal meaning for us and they serve as a daily inspiration anchoring us to the past and reminding us of the heritage skills passed on to us by these makers.

As I was looking over Jason's beautiful photos and started to type the words, I was shocked to find I was completely overwhelmed with feelings and emotions that reconnected me to the women whose hands created these pieces and the skills and values they passed on to me and that I now incorporate into my own work.

This post ended up as part 1 in an emotional journey documenting their work and paying our respects to the women, both past and present, whose hands created these functional pieces of home decor that ended up being venerated as artwork in our home today. More than that, they have become reminders to us of the values of the craftspeople who have come before us and have created a standard by which we now create our work in our design studios.