This week’s TAST challenge on SharonB‘s Pin Tangle blog is bullion buttonhole stitch. Oh, the possibilities! See the tute.… Read More ...

Arlee Barr shows us her Frankenstitch technique — freestyle embroidery that captures heavy textural effects. She says,

You just have to forget some of the rules about embroidery we’ve all strained to achieve when first learning to keep stitches even,

Andrea Zuill (aka badbird) gives us a glimpse of her process as she works from photograph to embroidered portrait. She says, “I try not make an exact copy of the original photograph, but  my own personal interpretation. I’ve added flowers … Read More ...