TotusMel has posted another rockin video tute. This time, she’s needle-tatting a flower pendant. Go see.… Read More ...
Silk-gauze pattern transfer
Lisa Tressler is guest blogging on Needle ‘n’ Thread with a terrific article about using silk gauze as a medium for transferring embroidery designs. Very old concept + modern tools and materials = rockin methodology. See Lisa’s post.… Read More ...
Tutorial: Punto Rodi
Jeanine in Canada (Italian Needlework blog) shows us how to do Punto Rodi or Rodi Stitch. She says,
… Read More ...[It] is a Pulled Thread Stitch used for filling spaces of a design and creating a light, open area. It
Why use cable stitch?
Tenar of Tenar’s Cave says,
… Read More ...Cable stitch is a useful and beautiful stitch in pulled thread work, but I never got why it should be used in normal surface embroidery. I mean, it produces lines of stitches you can easier
Tutorial: Machine embroidery on leather
Anja Rieger says “it is amazingly easy” to create these keychains by machine-embroidering on leather. See the tute.… Read More ...
Video tutorial: Needle-tatting
TotusMel shows us how to needle-tat split rings and Josephine chains. Have a look and post a comment — let’s encourage her to give us more rockin tutorials. See the tute.… Read More ...
Fireflies as hair ornaments
Look what Mollie Johanson did: Some tiny bits of felt, some tiny stitches with glow-in-the-dark floss, a couple of bobbie pins…and Mollie has fireflies in her hair! Brilliant! Get the details from Mollie’s Wild Olive blog.… Read More ...
Learning is free at Stitch School
Janet McCaffrey has started Stitch School blog to store her stitch tutorials and free patterns. There’s a lot to love! Recent tutes:
Woven filling stitch
Wheatear stitch
Vandyke stitch
Up-and-down buttonhole stitch
Twisted chain stitch… Read More ...
Another beautiful combo from SharonB
This stitch combination is rich yet elegantly simple. SharonB of Pin Tangle blog stitched the sample in her For the Love of Stitching band sampler. She says,
… Read More ...This band of stitching is made up of row of herringbone stitch which
A shisha how-to
DMCThread’s Blog is jumping on the shisha bandwagon with a rockin diagram that shows how to attach a small mirror to fabric with embroidery. Go to the DMC post for a better look.
DMC Thread Blog no longer exists please … Read More ...
Tutorial: Shadow work
Deepa of This and That blog has posted a new tutorial. Yea! This time, she lets us follow along on her first experience with shadow work on organza. I think you’ll agree that the results are beautiful. See Deepa’s tute… Read More ...
Tutorial: Wave stitch
This week’s TAST challenge is wave stitch. And it’s available a day early on SharonB‘s Pin Tangle blog. See the tute.… Read More ...
Hiding the thread
Tatter Jane Eborall answers the question, “How do you finish the end so there is no thread dangling?” If you want to tat jewelry, you’ll want to know the answer. See Jane’s post.… Read More ...
Video tutorial: Muvvala kuttu part 2
Lakshmi of Hand Embroidery from Sadalas has posted a new video tute — “the second part of Muvvala kuttu.” See her post.… Read More ...
Tutorial: Appliqued onesie
Craftyminx teaches us her technique for raw-edge applique (with a bit of embroidered embellishment) on a onesie. What a perfect baby-boy gift! See the tute.… Read More ...