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Jun
30
Gay Ann Rogers has a useful set of guidelines for preventing an abundance of threads and stitches from overwhelming a design. See her post.
Jun
30
I’m speechless. Asphodele. Woven picots = jonquils and leaves. Woven cones will go in the center of the daffodils. Wow. I mean, wow. See Asphodele’s blog post. (I used Babel Fish to translate it.) And/or see the woven …
Jun
30
Rachel Biel (Rayela’s Fiber Focus) just announced that TAFA: The Textile and Fiber Art List now has a group page on flickr. If you’re in the mood for some serious eye candy, head over that way.
Jun
30
Tenar of Tenar’s Cave says,
Cable stitch is a useful and beautiful stitch in pulled thread work, but I never got why it should be used in normal surface embroidery. I mean, it produces lines of stitches you can easier
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Jun
30
Anja Rieger says “it is amazingly easy” to create these keychains by machine-embroidering on leather. See the tute.
Jun
30
Margaret Oomen and her resurrection fern blog make me happy every day. If you don’t yet follow Margaret’s blog, add it to your reader! Go to resurrection fern.
Jun
30
Designer Melissa Averinos (of Sugar Snap, Small Stash Sewing, and Yummy Goods fame) has just opened an online Yummy Goods shop featuring all kinds of yummy products, including this Sublime Stitching Baby Bib Embroidery Kit. Check it out…
Jun
30
Sometimes, Neta Amir‘s old socks turn into…kittehs! See more on Nita’s doll stories blog.
Jun
30
TotusMel shows us how to needle-tat split rings and Josephine chains. Have a look and post a comment — let’s encourage her to give us more rockin tutorials. See the tute.
Jun
30
Connie G. Barwick, cross-stitch editor for About.com, invites you to share links to sources of free patterns through her blog’s forum. She says,
If you offer free patterns on your blog or website, feel free to post your sites
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Jun
29
Janet Stauffacher of Nostalgic NeedleART is sharing the pattern for this birthday crazy-quilt block. Janet says,
Here’s an easy foundation-pieced crazy quilt block, featuring one of my favorite postcards from my personal collection…Print this block directly onto computer printer fabric with
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Jun
29
Look what Mollie Johanson did: Some tiny bits of felt, some tiny stitches with glow-in-the-dark floss, a couple of bobbie pins…and Mollie has fireflies in her hair! Brilliant! Get the details from Mollie’s Wild Olive blog.
Jun
29
Daughter-and-mother team Marisa (Elegant Snobbery) and lindylou2 have joined forces again to bring one of Marisa’s illustrations to life as an embroidery pattern. This lovable sock-monkey pirate, Captain Monkeybones, is available for just US $4.00 from lindylou2′s etsy …
Jun
29
Janet McCaffrey has started Stitch School blog to store her stitch tutorials and free patterns. There’s a lot to love! Recent tutes:
Woven filling stitch
Wheatear stitch
Vandyke stitch
Up-and-down buttonhole stitch
Twisted chain stitch
Jun
29
Lisa of Ivory Blush Roses added her awesome stitchery to this luscious pansy CQ block that is circulating in a round robin. Her contributions included the large ribbon pansy and a cluster of silk-ribbon violas (upper left). See more on …
