My first adventure in embroidery as art is finished. This piece has been already purchased by an art collector.
Not surprising. Her story and her way of telling it are completely original. Her craftsmanship is divine. See … Read More ...
Giveaway: Bead It Like You Mean It
Susan Sorrell (Creative Chick) is giving away her review copy of Lyric Kinard’s DVD workshop, Bead It Like You Mean It. Go to Susan’s blog post to enter before September 20.… Read More ...
Tutorial: Loopy beads
Lyric Kinard shares a tutorial to augment her new DVD workshop, Bead It Like You Mean It. Use her simple technique to create stacked, looped bead fringe. Go to the tute.… Read More ...
Lyric’s new beady workshop
Lyric Kinard of Lyric Art has a new workshop DVD on the market: Bead It Like You Mean It. She says,
… Read More ...In this workshop I will teach you the basic techniques for embellishing fabric with beads including
+ sewing one
Inspiration: TheCrimsonMoon
I am loving TheCrimsonMoon‘s Vampire Heart pendant. Her bead embroidery is perfection. See more at her blog post.… Read More ...
Walton wins Bead Dreams
Winners of the 2011 Bead Dreams competition have been posted. Francesca Walton of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, took Best in Show with I Will Rise, a bead-embroidered mask and necklace combo. The necklace is shown here. See all of the amazing … Read More ...
Attend EGA’s Flamingo Fandango
The Kreinik Thread Blog shared a brochure for the meeting of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America this September in Naples, Florida. I intended to take a quick glance and got caught up for at least a half-hour. Dozens of opportunities … Read More ...
Needleart on the runway
Susan Elliott focuses her needleartist eye on the fall haute couture collection of Elie Saab, which is lavished with applique, embroidery, and beading. Enjoy Susan’s commentary and see lots more photos at her Plays with Needles blog post.… Read More ...
Inspiration: The Lone Beader
The Lone Beader has completed her beaded painting of Radio City Music Hall. Incredible detail. Scroll through her blog to review this project’s development.… Read More ...
Inspiration: Eleanor Pigman
Eleanor Pigman bead-embroidered a lion fish. Like her beaded portraits, this work fills me with awe and hope. Look what can be done! Go to Eleanor’s blog post for a photo you can embiggify and study.… Read More ...
Inspiration: Janet Dann
Robin of Beadlust examines Janet Dann‘s incredible bead-embroidered portrait of Ganesh. Robin says Janet achieves this level of detail by using mostly 15/0 beads. (I’d have to do all the work under a magnifying glass!) Enjoy Robin’s commentary and … Read More ...
Elsa Mora embroiders
These brooches (and pendant) take my breath away. Elsa Mora has applied her sketching/papercutting style to appliqued and embroidered jewelry with fabulous results. Go to her blog post to see detailed close-ups of each piece. And if you’re interested in … Read More ...
Art and technology converge
Check out this astonishing work by Icelandic designer Thorunn Arnadottir, who incorporates QR codes into beadwork. QR codes are similar to the bar codes used to identify products but can encode more complex information. They can be read by … Read More ...
Inspiration: Megan Noel
Sometimes I make beaded art dolls. I’m not really good at it, but it’s great fun. I’d forgotten how I got started until I saw a recent post by Megan Noel, where she re-shared her amazing Yeti doll (shown … Read More ...
Free FaLaLaLa designs
Another Christmas in July celebration is going on at Stumbles & Stitches, which has posted four free patterns from Lark Books’ FaLaLaLa Felt
. Go to Stumbles & Stitches blog.
Looking for more Christmas Embroidery Patterns? Check these out … Read More ...