Art, patterns and techniques
Mary Corbet of Needle ‘n’ Thread blog shares photos of some awesome work by one of her readers, which entails embroidering directly on wood boxes. Mary says,
… Read More ...Using pre-made, unfinished wooden boxes purchased at a craft store, Sue and her
Carina of Carina’s Craft Blog shows us her lazy satin stitch, a technique that produces a casual, modern fill while conserving expensive embroidery thread. See the tute.… Read More ...
This Embroidery roundup is all about free patterns. We have created this quick list with links to each Embroidery pattern. We have tried to choose free patterns to suit something for everyone.
Please note that these patterns were free at … Read More ...
As if even-star‘s perfect stitching on nearly transparent tulle weren’t fabulous enough, listen to this idea: She says,
… Read More ...I wanted this to be reminiscent of those onion skin anotomy books with all the cross sections and I think it
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has converted the Arecibo Message into free patterns for hand and machine embroidery. What is this message? One of the most famous messages transmitted as part of SETI: “Hi! We’re intelligent! We’re made of meat! … Read More ...
TheMistressT just posted a rockin feature over on MrXStitch. See these beautiful biscornu? They were created by 9-year-old kids. In school. During art class. Yeaaaaa!!! Find out more.… Read More ...
Emily of On Awesome Avenue has some great tips for working with waste canvas. Go see.… Read More ...
TAST 2 is about to begin over on SharonB‘s blog, Pin Tangle. She says,
… Read More ...TAST stands for Take a Stitch Tuesday. Each week on Tuesday I will take a stitch and suggest people experiment with it, push it
Grab a cup of your preferred beverage and settle in to enjoy the latest installment on DMC Thread’s blog. Spokesperson “Emma Broidery” says, “I thought it would be interesting to take a step back and examine the history of needlework, … Read More ...
Maureen (of Maureen’s Vintage Acquisitions) is sharing a vintage catalog of embroidery designs — 13 pages of these beautiful patterns! Go to Maureen’s blog to download the booklet.… Read More ...
To celebrate the first anniversary of her blog, Lakshmi of Hand Embroidery from Sadalas is treating us to a tutorial for bead embroidery based on herringbone stitch. Lovely! See the tute. Congratulations and thank you, Lakshmi, for a great … Read More ...
Last Friday, Charlie of Happy Threads shared this bright, cheerful cross-stitch pattern. She said, “[It] is really an experiment. It’s a color square instead of a color wheel. It’s actually my interpretation of the color wheel. It’s a bit of … Read More ...
I’m still in love with the teeny tiny French-knot sheep created by Sam Gillespie (Incy Wincy Stitches). So I’m thrilled to see that she has posted a double tutorial on feeling stitchy. First Sam shows us how to … Read More ...
