Lish Dorset of Craftzine.com has some awesome tips for preserving vintage embroidery transfers. Check out her post.… Read More ...
Learn to stitch with silk
Doreen of Art Needlepoint offers excellent guidance for stitching with silk threads. If you’re intimidated by this elegant fiber, check out Doreen’s advice.
Many thanks to Janet Perry of Nuts About Needlepoint for pointing out this rockin article.… Read More ...
Many faces of buttonhole stitch
Kim of a dork with a needle shares her love for buttonhole stitch. From the example shown here, where she uses it for texture and definition, to her samples of buttonhole edgings–she proves it’s more versatile than you might think. … Read More ...
More basic tatting tutes for left handers
The lessons in tatting basics continue on Heather‘s Tatted Treasures blog:
The difficulty with the double stitch is to always “transfer,” or “flip,” the knot from the working thread to the shuttle thread. Once you’ve … Read More ...
How to stitch with glow-in-the-dark thread
Wendi Gratz of Shiny Happy World shares the inside scoop about stitching with a specialty thread. She says, “There are some quirks to using glow in the dark thread – and I talk about all of them here.” See her … Read More ...
Recent stitch tutorials
(1) Striped Woven Band Stitch from big B
(2) Chain Stitch from Hugs from Helen
(3) Feather stitch video from welovefrenchknots (scroll down)
(4) Stem stitch video from welovefrenchknots (scroll down)
(5) Padded satin stitch from Judy’s Journal… Read More ...
Video tutorial: Knotting threads
Wendi Gratz of Shiny Happy World demos her method for tying off threads on the back of embroidery. Go to her blog post to see the video tute.… Read More ...
Wind your floss…cheaply
Cristy of Lots of Neat Stuff has an opinion about floss bobbins that’s easy to agree with:
… Read More ...They sell these in either a hard plastic or a flimsy cardboard. I used both kinds for my own storage. The plastic ones
Sand your pattern
Here’s an excellent tip from Mary Corbet of Needle ‘n’ Thread: Sand the back of your prick-and-pounce embroidery patterns to get clearer chalk impressions. (This seems like a good idea for prick-and-stitch designs on paper, too. Sanding would open … Read More ...
Recent stitch tutorials
Embroider with raffia
Shirlee Fassell of Needle and Hook explains a bit about using raffia in lesage. Even if you’re not into hook-embroidery techniques, you’ll enjoy the gorgeous photos of completed work. Go to her blog post.… Read More ...
Wind up your floss
If you’ve ever given yourself a crick-in-the-neck by winding up all your new skeins of floss onto bobbins (I sure have!), then you’re going to love this trick by Allison of Little Lovelies. Find out her secret.… Read More ...
How to avoid needlepoint “dandruff”
Janet Perry of Nuts About Needlepoint explains how to overpaint a canvas to prevent light-colored backgrounds from showing through dark stitching. See her post.… Read More ...
Needlepoint in motion
Jane of the Chilly Hollow Needlepoint Adventure has collected links to YouTube videos for needlepointers. Check them out.… Read More ...
Texturing with chain stitch
Check out this sample of high-texture embroidery by SharonB of Pin Tangle. If this doesn’t make your fingers itch to stitch, nothing can! She says,
… Read More ...I was experimenting with varieties of chain stitch which included oyster stitch and cable