I was catching up with Olisa Corcoran’s blog Cocoaeyes the Stitcher recently. I have been loving her recent experiments with watercolor and paint. She’s been doing a lot with perle cotton and watercolor in her latest works. What great texture!… Read More ...
Elegant Embroidery Flower Pattern
Mary Corbett from Needle N Thread has added a new free hand embroidery pattern she is calling Exuberant Flower. I think it is definitely exuberant but it is also elegant. She adapted the pattern from a design found in an … Read More ...
Great Storage Options
Janet M. Perry over at Nuts About Needlepoint has posted a wonderful blog that collects a number of tutorials from around the web that allow you to make or customize storage options for all your needlecraft items. Whether it is … Read More ...
Long and Short Stitch Flower tutorial
If you are just starting out with embroidery or you want to move beyond basic stitches, then this tutorial from Let’s learn embroidery blog will be quite helpful for you. It deals with long and short stitch and shows you … Read More ...
Old Woman in the Shoe Pattern
This week at Vintage Spice and Everything Nice the Friday Freebie is a very detailed addition to the nursery series. The old woman who lived in the shoe who had so many children she did not know what she would … Read More ...
Cutting Edge Artists
Today at Mr. X Stitch, the post is about artists they have featured who are on the cutting edge of their medium. For example, the artwork featured here is created with bobbin lace! Each artists takes the medium in which … Read More ...
Modern Blooms Original Embroidery Pattern
I love browsing around Etsy – there are so many great original embroidery patterns to lurk through and drool over. This one, entitled Modern Blooms, also has an accompanying cross-stitch chart as well. In addition, instructions for sewing a tea … Read More ...
Flower Embroidery Pattern
Imaginesque posted this great flower hand embroidery pattern as one of several variations of a flower design. This one happens to be my favorite. You could use it as an outline embroidery or for a quilt square or as any … Read More ...
Mission Rose Project at Needle N Thread
Over at Needle N Thread, Mary Corbet is working on a lovely Mission Rose embroidery project. In her recent post she tackled some goldwork and discussed how she handled a mistake and the techniques she used for the current leg … Read More ...
Pattern Couching
At the Kreinik Thread Blog, tey are featuring a book by Sue Dulle that goes into detail about couching. While couching may not be the most exciting embroidery technique at first consideration as the blog points out, once you go … Read More ...
Fun Hand Embroidery Pattern
Imaginesque has added another wonderful free embroidery pattern. It may either be used as an applique, as shown here or as outline – see the blog for several varations of the pattern. This one is so detailed, I think it … Read More ...
Lace Iphone App
If you like learning about laces and their origin and history and you have an iphone, then you are really going to be interested in this app. Jean and David Leader created and released what is apparently the first lace … Read More ...
Fabric Flowers
Anyone who does needlework is likely to have some fabric scraps around, and if you don’t, you probably have some friends who do who will let you borrow a few. This Craftside tutorial was inspired by some paper flowers, but … Read More ...
Rainbow Girls Patterns
I was browsing around Etsy the other day looking at Embroidery patterns and this one caught my eye. It is one of several Rainbow Girls Embroidery patterns available from Wendi Gratz’s Shiny Happy World Etsy shop. The designs are available … Read More ...
Stitch a Garden Club
All Things Needlepoint is announcing a new way to save and to increase your collection of needlepoint canvases. Become a member of their “Stitch a Garden Club” and choose from a wide selection of florals and other botanical canvases. The … Read More ...
