Last year I regularly produced ongoing reviews of art/textile/craft blogs. These alphabetical lists proved quite popular.

I am repeating the process, updating and adding blogs and removing those that are no longer active or have changed direction. I feel it’s better to publish this listing a letter at a time as it gives people time to browse and be browsed.    

As I did last year I choose blogs that are on topic and written reasonably frequently, by textile practitioners and designers who do such things as quilt, stitch, dye, sew, embellish fabric, bead, use visual journals, or people who are interested in art and design. I also try and stick to blogs that are on topic at least 80% of the time.

Blogs that are obviously written as marketing blogs or blogs that simply constantly review products and services with the express aim of selling goods I have excluded.

If you have a blog that you would like me to check out please leave your blog address in as a comment and I will check it out. 

Meanwhile make a cuppa and enjoy!

A Brush with Color Suzanne matches sketches and photography to famous quotations

A Collage a Day Randel Plowman creates a 4” X 4” collage every day and posts it on his bog.

A Crafty Vegan  Vania writes about knitting, craft, cooking  and vegan products

A Creative Journey  Karen Winters is a painter who paints and blogs daily

A Dress a Day discusses a dress almost every day.

A Ervilha Cor de Rosa  Rosa Pomar who documents her craft activities

A Fanciful Twist  by Vanessa Valencia is kept to document her quirky art pieces

A Garner of Stitched Thoughts  is a blog kept during the City and Guilds course in Embroidery.

A Latte a Day Maggie regularly posts her illustrations

A Little Hut  Patricia works with paper and regularly writes about paper arts

A Little Imagination and a Pile of Junk  covers crafting activities, sewing, dyeing, printing and recycling clothing and thrift shop finds.

A Little Something  Sharon McCreary and Anna Hebbert aim to help refugee women achieve self-sufficiency through handmade crafts.

A Look at Art & Design  by Lisa Mikulski discusses art, design, inspiration and marketing

A Movable Feast  Neki blogs her explorations in contemporary textile surface design, manipulation techniques, and needle felting.

A Painting a Day Duane Keiser produces a painting a day, blogs and sells it

A Print a Day  Yasmine regularly provides free files that you can down load an print. These designs are contemporary, bright and cheerful.

A Sketch in Time  is kept by Cathy Gatland who blogs page spreads from her visual journal. Cathy lives in South Africa and uses watercolours,and oil paints

A Stitch in Dye  Malka is a fiber artist who blogs about her studion activities. Maika dyes fabric, quilts and knits.

A Stitch in Time  is kept by Scottish contemporary fiber artist Carol Clasper.

A Village Quilter  by Sarah Jayne covers quilting, sewing and her design process

A Vintage Collection regularly publishes out of copyright vintage embroidery patterns

A Walk in the Woods  Frieda Anderson quilter and dyer tracks her activities in her blog.

A Wrinkle in the Calico  is a blog kept during the City and Guilds course and covers contemporary embroidery

Acuarela  covers sketchbooks/visual journals, watercolour, and illustration.

Adebanji Alade focuses on portraits and often blogs page spreads from his sketchbook or how a painting has been worked and developed step by step.

Adventures in Thread Jules tracks her craft skills which includes dolls, and contemporary embroidery and she does some fantastic stumpwork, so don’t miss her blog.

Adventures of Angel Cat  is a fiber arts blog touching on a number of areas such as fabric postcards, embroidery, dyeing, and knitting.

African Tapestry is another art blogger who regularly shares pages spreads of her sketchbook with her readers.

Aileen’s Musings  covers altered art, recycled materials and mixed media projects which are dished up with a snappy writing style.

AlarTTex  Maria del Valle keeps a blog on textiles which although written in Spanish has a handy “translate this blog” feature in the side bar. This is invaluable because Maria offers many free patterns and designs on her blog.

Albedo Design  is the blog of Canadian textile artist Arlee who works with contemporary textile techniques.

Alchemy Studios  Robin creates collages and ATCs (Artist Trading Cards)

Alexandra Hedberg is an illustrator and blogs regularly about her current artwork, observations and inspiration.

Alis Clair  tracks her explorations in contemporary textiles

All About Hand Dyeing consists of answers to questions sent to Paula Burch about dyeing. It is well worth adding to your RSS feed as it consists of all sorts of tips and solid advice

All the Strange Hours  David Rourke covers drawing, painting, art history, techniques, and topics related to visual art.

Allie’s in Stitches  is the blog of the fantastic crazy quilter Alison Aller. (You can tell I am a fan) 

Allsorts  Jennifer Beck Harris’s craft blog

Alma Stoller  Fabric and mixed media work of Alme Stoller who has been published in Cloth Paper and Scissors

Altered Antiquity  Kathy Wasilewski uses mixed media techniques in art journals and altered books.

Altered Artists Dawn Binyon is a collage and mixed media artist

Altered fabrications  Cathy works on art quilts and fabric postcards using contemporary textile techniques

Altered Visions  Linda spins and dyes yarn.

Altering Thoughts  Pat blogs her explorations into contemporary textile techniques. 

Ampersand Duck blog of bookbinder, teacher and letterpress printer. People interested in bookarts will enjoy htis blog.

An Artist’s Journal  full time professional artist Martha Marshall writes about her current work and what catches her eye.

An illustration a day  illustration, painting, drawing, sketching, collage, photographs and inspiration from Suana over 365 days the some

An Li Na Designs works with mixed media, altered books, artist books, fabric works, contmeporary dolls, and book arts.

An open sketchbook Suzanne Cabrera blogs page spreads from her sketchbooks

And Sew it Goes Terry Grant is a graphic designer who is interested in fabric arts

AndiBeads Andi Stern writes about her interests in beading, fiber, and contemporary quilting.

Andrea Joseph’s Sketchblog  this is exactly as described and filled with lovely detailed drawings 

Angelcat  covers craft and sewing projects in her blog

Angie’s ART & FULL Life  covers knitting beading and crafting 

Angry Chicken  is a sewing cooking craft blog kept by Amy Carol

Ann Wood blogs the progress of her work. It was her contemporary Dioramas  that led me to her work so do check them out.

Anna Maria Horner  is a designer who keeps a blog about her sewing and quilts

Anna Nowicki - My Textile Art  Anna is a contemporary Ttextile artist who blogs about the techniques, materials and processes in her work.

Annies Crazy World  is a fellow Aussie crazy quilter who I lives not far from me so she is good friend too!

Apples and Oranges  is a blog kept by Kate a contemporary crafter. Sewing, embroidery and knitting are some of the topics covered and she is going to participate in the Take it Further challenge

Applique and Embroidery in Beijing  I met Mara as a student in one of my classes.Mara does lovely stitching as a result her blog is worth checking out

Art & Critique described as “Critical articles on artists from various periods, including contemporary daily/frequent painters.”

Art ADD Works for Me  Gisela is a a painter/muralist who has become a quilter

Art at Work  Kit Vincent is interested in surface design and records work in progress

Art Bead Scene  is written by Elaine Ray. It covers beaded jewelry and occasionally touches on embellishing fabric with beads.

Art Cloth Text by Mackenzie Frere a Canadian textile artist, writer and teacher.

Art Dolls  and Fiber Arts by Judi Wellnitz

Art Escapes  ATCs, mixed media and stamping projects and techniques are documented by Gisele.

Art for Housewives  is a quirky delightful link heavy blog that covers textiles and crafts online

Art in Stitches   Susan Lenz documents her contemporary textile practice.

Art Junk Girl  is a well known blog on mixed media and altered art projects

Art News Blog   is described as “visual art news, art reviews and art related stories online”

Art Notes  is kept by Bob Abrahams who as a painter writes about his work and techniques.

Art of Ann Christine Dennison  who expresses herself through collage, drawing, fiber, and photography.

Art of Textiles  Susan quilts, embroiders explores surface design and many fiber related crafts. Susan also keeps the  Art of Stitch

Art Quilt Works  Juanita Yeager writes about her art quilts.

Art Quilts  Kathy York creates art quilts.

ArtBiz Blog  Alyson Stanfirld writes about the business of art aimed at studio based artists. The blog is full of good tips and ideas on earning a living in any of the creative industries.

Artful Adventures  Sue Pieper art journals, creates ATCs and uses mised media techniques.

Artful Muse  KV is beader who keeps a beading blog pointing to news and resources as well as documenting her work.

Artful Ties  Barb Lawrence focuses her blog on “Making art from men’s neckties”

Artgirlz  is written by Allison and Tracy who quilt, craft, felt and make contemporary cloth dolls

Artist Reborne  is interested in paper arts such as scrapbooking, card-making, collage, ATCs, altered books, handmade books and textiles such as contemporary quilting

Artistic License  the blog of needlework designer Teresa Wentzler who is well known for counted cross-stitch designs

ArtMixter   Marion documents her experiments in mixed media textile techniques, Artists’ Trading Cards (ATCs), and quilting.

Artrageous Afternoon  covers paper arts such as scrapbooking, visual journals, collage, ATCs, and crafts.

Arts and Quilts  Rete covers mainly quilting and knitting projects and often writes tutorials.

Arts Texile et Dentelle Carinemarie  interests range from free form crochet to needlelace, contemporary lace and felt embellishing and she is participating in the Take it Further challenge

Artsy Crafty Babe  Beki sews and blogs her crafts.

Artsy Fartsy Chick often shares her journal spreads

Artsy Visions  Kelly Buton works with mixed media techniques on altered art and collage pieces.

Artsyfran  Fran Saperstein art journals, writes, sews and used mixed media techniques in her projects

ArtsyMama  covers art journalling and related crafts.

Artwhispers  Terry is a photographer and mixed media artist.

Arty Lady  Liz is interested in ATCs, altered art and related crafts

Artyfax  documents creating ATCs as well sketching, painting and related crafts.

Ascender Rises Above  is the blog of a water colourist, and a collage mixed media artist

Assorted Notions Christina keeps a dressmaking and sewing blog

At the Honeysuckle Tree  is kept by a needlework designer Tanya Marie Anderson otherwise known as “sampler girl”. Tanya often publishes free embroidery patterns and charts on her blog

Ati on the crazy road…  Ati uses her blog to document her fabric collage, crazy quilting, fabric postcards and contemporary quilt projects.

Au Fil du Jardin  Vero is interested in the fiber arts, and posts her projects.

Available Space Erika Tysse  blogs her interest in mixed media and collage

Average Jane Crafter  Rachel explores and moves across many crafts blogging her explorations along the way.