Art, patterns and techniques
The winners of PieceWork Magazine‘s 2008 Pincushion Contest, Excellence in Needle Arts Awards, were announced in the July/August issue, which was released July 8. You can view the winners, honorable mentions, and other lovely entries on line, too.
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This month’s free cross-stitch chart from Shakespeare’s Peddler is this sweet lighthouse teapot. The graph comes free with any order placed in July. Get all the details.… Read More ...
Janet Perry at Nuts About Needlepoint found another cool widget and, of course, has come up with a needlework application for it. Input an image or URL into pic2color, and the tool generates a palette of swatches of the … Read More ...
Sue Bleiweiss‘s quarterly digital magazine, Fibre&Stitch, is easy to love and easy to buy. And the site offers a terrific bonus: tutorials for more than 30 free projects. The instructions for circle stitching, alone, may have saved … Read More ...
Sublime Stitching has just published four rockin’ new sets of embroidery designs: Sexy Librarians, Emily Martin, Vital Organs, and Dutch Russian. (A sampling of Vital Organs is shown here.) For US $3.50 (US $4.50 for Emily … Read More ...
A Creative Embroidery web ring is getting started on RingSurf. Whether you’d like to join or you just want to follow along, you can learn more about it on the RingSurf site.… Read More ...
Thanks to blogger Gina at Threads of a Tatting Goddess, I just saw the most remarkable video demonstration of handmaking needle lace. If you’ve never seen needle lace being made, you’ll probably be mesmerized as I was. See the … Read More ...
Emily of The Floss Box produces exquisite stump work. In a recent blog post, she shares how she makes small embroidery works into bottlecap ornaments. While these would be lovely hanging anywhere in a home or office, I think they … Read More ...
Remember Becky Stern’s article about incorporating conductive thread and LEDs into your needlework? Well, jcferreiradasilva has taken it a step further, so to speak, with her firefly-bootie entry in the Michael Miller Baby Bootie Contest. You can check out … Read More ...
LadyShuttleMaker on Etsy.com has a tatting shop unlike any I’ve seen before. She offers beautiful completed projects of handmade lace, such as the grapevine necklace shown here. And her hand-dyed threads are to die for. But, most interesting of all, … Read More ...
Cross-stitching.com is offering a free chart for this friendly Miss Liberty. Designed by Christine-Ann Martin, the site says, “This awesome design is easy to stitch and makes the perfect gift for a friend or relative residing in the Land of … Read More ...
JMD Designs of New Zealand is offering designs for quilts that incorporate dimensional elements–kind of a cross between soft sculpture and applique. You can get the designs via e-mail for NZL $18.95 each or by international post for NZL $24.95. … Read More ...
Di van Niekerk Crafts Unlimited is celebrating its 20th birthday with a 20% Off Everything Sale. You’ll also receive a beautiful design and instructions free with each order.… Read More ...
Sew, Mama, Sew blog is running a series of tutorials by board member Elizabeth called Summer Sewing ~ Simple Machine Applique. The instructions are outstanding, and Elizabeth even provides a PDF file of the applique motifs she uses. Be sure … Read More ...
I can’t believe I’ve never stumbled across this wonderful site before. If you’ve missed it, too, now is the time to check out Brazilian Dimensional Embroidery International Guild, Inc. Brazilian embroidery, as the site points out, “uses stitches that … Read More ...
