Mollie Johanson of Wild Olive has come up with a clever, inexpensive way to preserve those scraps of floss that are too large to throw away but divided or otherwise too small to wind back onto the bobbin. She explains … Read More ...
Tatting for beginners
If you’d like to try your hand at tatting but you don’t have a clue how to start, you’re in luck! Heather of Tatted Treasures has started a new series of tutorials for absolute beginners. Go to the first lesson… Read More ...
Stitch a felt birdie
Abby of While She Naps shares the pattern and tutorial for this sweet felt-sculpture bird. Go to her blog post for the tute.… Read More ...
Tutorial: Transferring embroidery patterns
Cassandra continues Embroidery School over on Ooo! Shiny! with Lesson 3: Transferring patterns. Check out the tute.… Read More ...
Make a huggable amphibian
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Trixi of Coloured Buttons shares the pattern and tips for creating her Froggy softie. Go to her blog post for the download. And while you’re there, check out the teensy froggy her son found in his yard in Hong
Wrap your hoops
Phillipa of Stitching Always recommends wrapping your embroidery hoops and explains a bit about how to do it. Go to her blog post.… Read More ...
Learn needlepoint damask
Janet Perry of Nuts About Needlepoint explains needlepoint damask and shares a bunch of charts for you to try out this effect. Check it out at her blog post.… Read More ...
Recent stitch tutorials
Tutorial: Needlepoint threads
Enjoy Emma’s Needlepoint 101 series on DMCThread’s Blog. This week’s lesson: Selecting threads for needlepoint. Go to the tute.
DMC Thread Blog no longer exists please check out DMC’s website directly. … Read More ...
Tutorial: Stitched cards
Allison of Little Lovelies walks us through the steps of creating hand-stitched greeting cards like these cuties. See the tute.… Read More ...
Tutorial: Bernina-stitched inchies
If you liked the machine-embroidered inchies by Annette of Thread Addict, you will love her new post. It walks you through the process of creating these little works on a Bernina with Artista V5 software. See the tute.… Read More ...
More lessons from Mary
Mary Corbet of Needle ‘n’ Thread continues her series on embroidery basics with
5 Things You Need to Know About Hand Embroidery Fabric
and
5 Things You Need to Know About Hand Embroidery Needles
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Tutorial: Add embroidery to a veil
Mamameme has posted a tutorial on Instructables for adding embroidery to a bridal veil. She says the example
… Read More ...…is fairly simple to meet the bride’s request, but you could make it as intricate as you like or add beads or
Video: Dimensional stitch
Victoria Crowder Payne‘s Sinister Stitch Chronicles video series continues with “Episode 3: Dimensional Stitch.” She says,
… Read More ...I talk about the multiple personalities of the French Knot and discuss working the Monkshood/Wolfsbane piece on opposite sides of the same fabric.
Make a beaded bouquet
Xavec has posted a tutorial on Instructables for creating a gorgeous beaded wedding bouquet. She says,
… Read More ...In this instructable, I will show you one method of making a beautiful bouquet for your wedding. This is a great project because not