Here’s a great idea: Heather of Tatted Treasures is sponsoring an online tatting scavenger hunt. She says,
… Read More ...Each week during the month of March I’ll post a set of five challenges for things to find or do, and then you
Inspiration: Iviva Olenick
Look at the bubbles. And the bottom edge. Nice. Go to Iviva‘s blog post for an image you can enlarge.… Read More ...
How-to: Catherine Wheel join
Jon of Tat-a-Renda shows us step by step how to do the complicated Catherine Wheel join. Her photos make the process clear and accessible. Go to her post.… Read More ...
Susan Lenz in Key West
Fiber artist Susan Lenz has landed another artist residency, this time at The Studios of Key West. You know how productive and inspirational theses are journeys are when Susan is involved! Go to her blog to follow her adventure.… Read More ...
Silk Ribbon Embroidery – snowdrops by Ati
This crazy-quilt block by Ati of Ati on the Crazy Road has many lovely features, but I am especially impressed by her silk-ribbon snowdrops (lower right corner). I haven’t seen this flower rendered in SRE before, and I totally intend … Read More ...
Technique: How many strands of floss?
How many strands of embroidery floss should you stitch with? Wendi Gratz of Shiny Happy World has some advice. See her post.… Read More ...
Tutorial: Restarting a thread invisibly
Mary Corbet of Needle ‘n’ Thread shows us how to cope when we must end one thread and start a new one in the middle of a line of complex stitching. Check out her tute.… Read More ...
DIY organizer for embroidery floss
Leah of Zombies Wearing Helmets wanted a new system for storing her embroidery floss. But not just any old system. She says it had to meet these requirements:
… Read More ...*Skeins should be in numerical order.
*Colors should be easy to see
Tutorial: Felt Easter ornaments
Raphaele of La Creature and You shares a tutorial for sweet felt Easter ornaments that even a beginning stitcher need not fear. In fact, this would be a perfect project to do with school-age children. Go to the tute.… Read More ...
Tutorial: Wedding hoop
Annika of All the Live Long Day created this sweet hoop as a wedding gift for a friend. (Note the fabric-wrapped hoop. I love that technique!) And this gift keeps on giving–she’s sharing the tutorial so we all can make … Read More ...
Learn and win at Funk and Weber
Check this awesome announcement from Jen of Funk and Weber Designs. And be sure to read all the way to the bottom because…a giveaway is involved!
… Read More ...I’m joint-hosting a webinar titled Best Photo Forward: Refining Photos of Fine Embroidery with
Winner! Winner!
The winner of our drawing for a USS$25 gift certificate to Fiber on a Whim is commenter #36, Nancy! Nancy, I’ve sent you an email. Please respond by the deadline noted in that message or I’ll draw a second … Read More ...
Free hand-embroidery patterns
(1) Promises and Borders block 3 from Jenny of Elefantz
(2) Miss Kitty from Primitives by the Light of the Moon
(3) Spring from Hudson’s Holidays
(4) Friday Freebie 3/1/12 from Pin Tangle
(5) Bird and branch from Broderie d’Antan… Read More ...
Giveaway: Manya’s hand-stitched pendants
Manya of kézzel és lélekkel is celebrating her second blogaversary with a rockin giveaway. There will be two winners. One will win Manya’s lovely red roses silk-ribbon embroidery pendant. The other will win a pendant created in her choice of … Read More ...
A crazy-quilted landscape
Shari J of Colorado took a totally original direction with this block for the CQ Journal Project 2012. Instead of piecing a seemingly random block, she created a landscape and developed it dimensionally with stitches and seam treatments. Go … Read More ...