Anne Marie of Untangling Threads shows how to make a simply elegant Victorian-inspired teacup cover to protect your drink from landing insects. If you think this isn’t a problem, you haven’t tried to sip a cuppa on my deck! See … Read More ...
Pump up the pattern with stitching
Kirsten and Cath of Prints Charming have a great guest post on whip up about embellishing fabrics by following the print with basic embroidery stitches. See the post.
Looking for more Christmas Embroidery Patterns? Check these out on Etsy or … Read More ...
Video tute: Bird pincushion
Joel Dewberry joins the DIY Dish twins to demo making this sweet bird pincushion/sachet/Christmas ornament. Simple sewing, applique, and embroidery. Make a whole flock! See the tute.
Looking for more Christmas Embroidery Patterns? Check these out on Etsy or … Read More ...
Is this a bullion knot?
Deepa of This and That blog shares a mystery technique video from YouTube. She says, “The outcome looks like bullion,but look at the technique…Can anyone solve the mystery of the technique? I tried to copy his method, but messed up … Read More ...
Laura’s elongated daisies
Laura Wasilowski of Artfabrik spends this Threaducation Thursday demonstrating a stitch she just discovered by happy accident. She’s calling it elongated daisy stitch. See the tute.… Read More ...
Make a pinkeep
Debra S of All About ME shares instructions for making a pinkeep from a small cross-stitchery. See the tute.… Read More ...
Tutorial: Multiple bars in cutwork
Maya of Little Treasurers continues her tutorial series on cutwork embroidery, showing us how to handle multiple bars across open areas (as shown at the bottom of the photo). See the tute.… Read More ...
How to cross-stitch on ceramic
Gina of doe-c-doe cross-stitches on porcelain — with a paint pen. And she’s sharing her technique. See the post.… Read More ...
Make all kinds of ribbon flowers
TipNut has put together a roundup of links to 14 tutorials for making ribbon flowers. You’ll want to try all of them! See the post.… Read More ...
Tutorial: Basic cutwork
Maya of Little Treasures has posted a tutorial for basic cutwork embroidery. See her post on whip up blog.… Read More ...
How to block embroidery
Janet M. Davies of JMD Designs had some great advice for freeing your needlework of wrinkles. She says,
… Read More ...I do not mean wrinkles that may happen because your tension was too tight or you did not use a hoop while
Learn to embroider from Mollie
Mollie of Wild Olive promised us an Embroidery Basics course, and now she’s delivering. Find out more about the free weekly series, coming up soon, from Mollie’s blog post.… Read More ...
Tutorial: Dividing floche
If floche is an indivisible embroidery thread, why is Mary Corbet dividing it? Find out why and how from her Needle ‘n’ Thread blog post.… Read More ...
Online stitcher’s resources
Emma of DMCThread’s Blog has put together a list of links to useful online tools and resources for stitchers. Better bookmark this one! See the post.
DMC Thread Blog no longer exists please check out DMC’s website directly. … Read More ...
Tutorial: Dimensional embroidery
Lakshmi of Hand Embroidery from Sadalas has come up with a rockin dimensional embroidery technique that she calls “comb embroidery…without the comb.” An easy approach with beautiful results. See her tute.… Read More ...