Needle Work

The winners of PieceWork Magazine‘s 2008 Pincushion Contest, Excellence in Needle Arts Awards, were announced in the July/August issue, which was released July 8. You can view the winners, honorable mentions, and other lovely entries on line, too.… Read More ...

The chart for this cute little kitty is available free from Cross-stitching.com. Download it here.… Read More ...

Janet Perry at Nuts About Needlepoint found another cool widget and, of course, has come up with a needlework application for it. Input an image or URL into pic2color, and the tool generates a palette of swatches of the … Read More ...

Alicia in Hawaii has posted an excellent tutorial for creating iron-on embroidery transfers using a hot-iron transfer pen or pencil.… Read More ...

Sue Bleiweiss‘s quarterly digital magazine, Fibre&Stitch, is easy to love and easy to buy. And the site offers a terrific bonus: tutorials for more than 30 free projects. The instructions for circle stitching, alone, may have saved … Read More ...

I get a little thrill every time I see Margie Deeb‘s colorful, exciting, innovative bead embroidery. You can see an artist profile of Margie and examples of her work in a June 5 post by Cyndi on Jewelry and … Read More ...

If you already know about Needlecrafter.com, then you’re already used to the abundance of embroidery resources available from the site. If not, you are going to love it – especially the library of free embroidery patterns.… Read More ...

Judy Heim‘s tutorial has been available for several years; but if you haven’t yet tried printing needlepoint canvases with your home printer, her advice will be fresh and new to you. One of the  most important problems to overcome … Read More ...

A recent article (without byline) on the Quilting Arts blog shows how to create unique quilt fabric by screen printing. The technique itself isn’t new, of course, but the process for producing the screen seems simpler and much less messy … Read More ...

Sublime Stitching has just published four rockin’ new sets of embroidery designs: Sexy Librarians, Emily Martin, Vital Organs, and Dutch Russian. (A sampling of Vital Organs is shown here.) For US $3.50 (US $4.50 for Emily … Read More ...

JO in NZ has posted an excellent tutorial for creating the Fargo rose, a silk-ribbon embroidery staple. Thanks to Lisa at Ivory Blush Roses for the link.… Read More ...

Oh. My. Goodness. Look at this new work by Susan Lenz. Peacock Boxes is fibers, feathers, and free-motion machine embroidery. The finished piece is 30 inches by 52 inches–a substantial work, indeed. You can read a bit about it … Read More ...

A Creative Embroidery web ring is getting started on RingSurf. Whether you’d like to join or you just want to follow along, you can learn more about it on the RingSurf site.… Read More ...