Embroidery maven Jenny Hart of Sublime Stitching demonstrates how to fill an area with plain or padded satin stitch. If you’ve been limiting your embroidery to outline stitches, here’s your chance to stretch a bit and add some elegance to … Read More ...

Stitch along with Janet Perry to recreate a Roman mosaic in needlepoint. The chart and excellent instructions are available on Janet’s blog, Nuts About Needlepoint. See the post.… Read More ...

I am loving this new embroidery pattern from Andrea Zuill. Everybody needs a flower-festooned moose! Get the link to purchase the pattern from Andrea’s Badbird’s blog.

Looking for a supplier of Silk Ribbon? We love Etsy for finding … Read More ...

Sew, Mama, Sew! blog invites you to download Lauren’s Sew-Along Embroidery Sampler and join in the hand-stitching fun! Get the pattern.… Read More ...

Judy Coates Perez of Painted Threads blog is offering her Color Theory class online from September 8 through November 8. The 9-week course is just US $60. Judy says,

In this hands-on experiential class you’ll learn key color concepts with

Oooooooooo. Wait till you see this month’s giveaway on Mary Corbet‘s Needle ‘n’ Thread blog. Prizes include Plimoth Plantation Jacket notecards, the Ackworth school memory book, a pre-printed vintage linen, and two skeins of  M. Heminway & Sons silk … Read More ...

Oh, my goodness! Look what Sister Diane has done now! She’s embroidering on perforated metal discs. I have a drawerful of these jewelry findings, which I purchased for a song from eBay, imagining that somehow I was going to bead … Read More ...

Birthine‘s embroidered button/brooches are such eye candy that I may have gained a few pounds just from ogling her flickr stream. Her huge stitching vocabulary (including petit point) and delicious color sense invite close inspection of each piece.… Read More ...

Nikki of Nikki, In Stitches blog is giving away a grab bag from her favorite needlepoint store in Cape May, New Jersey, Stitch by Stitch. Nikki says,

I have no idea what’s inside there.  I can only vouch for the

Thanks to a reader’s tip, I’ve discovered the blog Self-Guided Art Therapy. It is beautiful, tragic, amazing, empowering. In the words of host Kniterdone,

I believe in the the power of self-imposed art therapy. Take your problem, stab it with

I want to stitch this adorable tiny bee right this minute! Get the free chart from sarajessica’s blog, Cross Me Not.… Read More ...

Wee Folk Art is sharing the pattern for this funky and functional eyeglasses case. Get the pattern.… Read More ...

Rachel Hunnicutt‘s l’ennui makes me chuckle. A most effective use of boredom! See her blog, Cornflower Blue Studio.… Read More ...

Patty of Pip Stitch is back on line at last after her foot surgery. Yea!!! Today, she lets us peek over her shoulder at her work on Nicole’s Bunny Stitch A Long. I’m loving the texture on the squirrel’s … Read More ...