Creative Breathing shares her pattern for this sweet elephant felt soft-sculpture. Make one for the circus-lover–or Republican–in your life. Get the pattern.… Read More ...
Recent stitch tutorials
Recent tatting tutorials
Enjoy these tatting tutes from Tatted Treasures:
Keeping Tension After a Reverse
Reading Patterns and Making Projects, Part 2… Read More ...
Recent Fiber Arts Calls for Entry
(1) Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences (LBIF), Small Works Exhibition
(2) Lark Books: Book Proposals
(3) Textile Arts Center: Exhibition Proposals
(4) Cheraw State Park: Artist-in-Residence Program
(5) Rocky Mountain National Park: Artist-In-Residence Program
(6) Valcellina … Read More ...
Free hand-embroidery patterns
Looking for more Halloween Embroidery Patterns? Check these out on Etsy.
We’ve chosen the best hand-embroidery patterns for you to attempt this week! We offer something for everyone, whether you’re a novice or a seasoned veteran. Our free cross-stitch patterns … Read More ...
Free embroidery design from UT
This awesome design is free from Urban Threads through Sunday, October 23, in machine embroidery, hand embroidery, and digital stock art formats. Download it now.
Still looking for more patterns? Check these flower embroidery patterns out on Etsy and … Read More ...
Preprinted samplers for you to stitch
This sampler is embroidered on a printed pattern. No, really! Rebecca Ringquist designs samplers and screen prints them on cotton, ready for you to embroider with stitches and colors of your choice. Brilliant! Go to her Etsy shop to see … Read More ...
A fabric-flower garland for your chair
Sara of creative jewish mom has given us tutorials for her fabric flowers and for making the flowers into napkin rings. Now she shows us how to turn the napkin rings into a gorgeous chair-back garland. Wouldn’t a couple of … Read More ...
Stitch realistic SRE leaves
Di van Niekerk shares a tip for taming silk-ribbon leaves and shaping them realistically. Go to her blog post for the lowdown.
Looking for a supplier of Silk Ribbon? We love Etsy for finding hand dyed ribbons as well … Read More ...
Tutorial: Thread-wrapped mat
Rachel of Lines Across My Face is sharing instructions for wrapping a mat in embroidery thread. If you’re like me, you have a whole drawerful of odd skeins of thread from estate and yard sales. What a perfect and practical … Read More ...
In reprint: The Found Object in Textile Art
Cas Holmes sent us the heads-up that her book, The Found Object in Textile Art, which was published in 2010, is already being reprinted in the UK. The book’s synopsis notes,
… Read More ...Textile artists have always used found objects, both for
Free October calendar
This month’s cute free desktop calendar is available now from Janet M. Davies of JMD Designs. Get the download.… Read More ...
Learn about Schwalm whitework
Mary Corbet of Needle ‘n’ Thread shares photos of the work of her reader Jana. The tablerunner Jana created is, as Mary points out, a masterpiece of Schwalm whitework. You can see lots more photos and learn a bit … Read More ...
Embroidery Tutorial: Embroidered felt flowers
Bronwyn of Red Brolly shares her patterns and technique for making these charming stitched felt flowers. They’re great, she says, “for displays, bouquets, brooches, hat pins and decorating your bags and purses.” A more detailed tute is forthcoming, but you … Read More ...
Inspiration: Joetta Maue
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. So it is especially fitting that Joetta Maue has shared an open letter to a friend who has been diagnosed with breast cancer. The letter combines Joetta’s words with images of her embroidered works … Read More ...