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Jul
30
Terri of Weaving a Life says,
It has been a year since my Earth Loom was set-up. Over that time, many things have been woven into it by many different people.
This idea is so wonderful, it actually…
Jul
30
I love this series of embroidery designs from Kell of Kincavel Krosses. She’s rendering common greetings in Braille for cross-stitch. Or you can substitute French knots. Or you can add the related text with a backstitch alphabet. Or…
Jul
30
Get the lowdown on creating tatting diagrams from expert Jon Yusoff. She says her notes “are more like tips and hints on how to make the drawing process easier and faster” rather than a tutorial for using certain software. “You…
Jul
30
This beautiful desktop calendar for August, featuring the embroidery of SharonB, is a free download from Pin Tangle blog. Go get it.
Jul
30
Sarah Whittle shows us how to stitch detached buttonhole bars, the perfect stitch for creating lacy spiderwebs. See the tute.
Jul
29
Georgia Seitz is passing the word that the Palmetto Tat Days Scholarship Fundraiser Quilt is ready to be raffled. She says,
Over 70 international tatters have been working on the scholarship fundraiser crazy quilt for Tat Days 2010. It has
…
Jul
29
Oooooo! Look what Melissa Crowe (Checkout Girl) is up to: She’s sponsoring a contest that combines her two great creative loves — embroidery and poetry. She invites us to embroider a poem and submit a photo to a…
Jul
29
CrafTown.com publishes readers’ original craft designs, and right now they’re especially interested in “beefing up” their cross-stitch offerings. Although it’s not a paying gig, I’ve heard through the grapevine that the site gets 600,000 to 800,000 hits a month, which might…
Jul
29
I received a sweet note from reader Sivani, gently pointing out an inaccuracy in credit for a design. I’ve been posting links to the French blog plaisirdecreer, which has been sharing a beautiful blackwork sampler in instalments. Sivani is either…
Jul
29
Yikes! I almost let a great freebie slip by! Urban Threads‘ e-newsletter points to a free lace spiderweb design and says,
It’ll make a sweet coaster, doily, or spooky decoration for your haunted house. Freestanding lace is awesome, and if
…
Jul
29
Laura Wasilowski of Artfabrik blog recommends using variegated thread to add life to hand stitching. She says,
Changes in color value or hue make the surface more active and tantalize the eye. I’m making small quilts and I
…
Jul
28
This gorgeous, colorful stitchery by Parpi of CRESUS artisanat seems improvisational. It’s got that kind of energy. And it makes me so happy. That’s all.
Jul
28
This week’s TAST challenge is triple chain stitch. (See the tute on SharonB‘s Pin Tangle blog.) Shirley of Shirley’s Twisted Threads wasted no time in trying this one out. Within 24 hours after the challenge was…
Jul
28
The July 2010 issue of CQ Mag Online is available now. This instalment of the free e-zine for crazy quilters features an article on embroidering silk prints by Kathy Shaw (Shawkl); a lesson on making composite…
Jul
28
Kim of big B shares her latest adventure with 100 stitches through a tutorial on zig-zag coral stitch. See the tute.
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