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Learn about Zalakdosi
Royce’s Hub gives us a look at Zalakdosi, chain stitch created with a hook. (This looks a lot like tambour embroidery and lesage.) Get the details from Royce’s post.
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Inspiration: NDBex
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, here is Frankenboobies, a work by Rebecca Martz-Burley aka NDBex. She created this embroidery as a way of helping purge her discomfort with her mastectomy scars. In a personal note, she … Read More...
Inspiration: Little Z Handmade
Fall brooches by Lisette of Little Z Handmade make me sigh with happiness. Go to her blog.
Ed. note: This post was not requested or compensated in any way.
Inspiration: Hand Embroidery from Sadalas
Lakshmi of Hand Embroidery from Sadalas used long-and-short stitch to create this gorgeous embellishment for a wee dress. Go to the post to see the completed project.
Bead embroidery in progress
You may think I’m odd when I tell you this is my idea of fun. But in case you’re odd, too, heads-up: Coral-Seas of Threads Across the Web shares progress photos of an intricate floral bead embroidery. You can revel … Read More...
Win Embroider Everything Workshop
Craftstylish is giving away a copy of Embroider Everything Workshop. The review says,
… Read More...Diana Rupp offers a beginner’s guide to embroidery that makes classic techniques easy and fun. Embroider Everything Workshop includes 40 original projects and 48 iron-on transfers, as
Keeping silk thread smooth
Mary Corbet of Needle ‘n’ Thread has a fresh idea for how to keep silk threads from snagging on your hands and nails. Check it out.
A cloak from another era
Racaire, who specializes in historical embroidery techniques and producing accurate costumes for the Society of Creative Anachronism, created this lovely cloak for her friend Anya. Go to her blog post to see more photos and enlarge them for study … Read More...
Enjoy Judy Martin’s Energy Cloth
Judy Martin gives us several views of her textile artwork that has been accepted by the juried show Ontario Craft ’11. She notes that it is “hand stitch, wax resist, cotton.” Simple materials; complex and fascinating work. See more photos … Read More...
Cross-stitch from Egypt
Hannah of enbrouderie shares photos of a gift she received–a handbag from Egypt. She says,
… Read More...The tag says it’s from a fair trade association for selling handicrafts, and this one was made by a group of North Sinai Bedouin women.
Make ATCs from your thread scraps
iHannah has been experimenting with creating artist trading cards by stitching down thread nests of orts in pleasing designs. So pretty! Find out more from her blog post.
Hearing the Plimoth Jacket story
Susan Elliott‘s local chapter of the Embroidery Guild of America had the privilege of having Dr. Tricia Wilson Nguyen as their guest last April. Dr. Nguyen is both an engineer and an expert in historical embroidery. She led the … Read More...
Inspiration: Creative Meanderings
Doreen of Creative Meanderings composed this brooch from silk georgette, silk ribbon, buttons, and French knots. Contrasting and complementary textures that invite touch. Beautifully done. Go to her blog post to see a version of the image that you can … Read More...
Meet Aimee Ray
Enjoy an interview with Aimee Ray of Little Dear Tracks and Doodle Stitching fame. Bari of We Love French Knots posed some interesting questions, and Aimee’s answers are satisfying. She says, for example,
… Read More...There is something primitive and relaxing about
A thread tutorial
Mary Corbet of Needle ‘n’ Thread compares two embroidery threads–floche and coton a broder–and explains their uses. Check out her tute.
Blossoms of cast-on stitch
Every seam treatment on this crazy-quilt block is lovely. Of course! It was created by SharonB of Pin Tangle, so we’d expect nothing less. I especially love the little row of cast-on-stitch flowers. Wouldn’t they be precious around the … Read More...
Inspiration: Yesteryear Embroideries
Kathleen of Yesteryear Embroideries gives us a peek at her crazy quilt in progress. I love love love the wee flower vine with bitty seed-bead blooms. See more photos at her blog post.
How to use a laying tool
Mary Corbet of Needle ‘n’ Thread explains laying tools and shows us how to use them. When it’s important to get your stitches to lie just right, this tutorial will come in handy. Go to Mary’s post.
A close look at pateh
Hannah of enbrouderie gives us a look at another of Dr. Shiraz’s collection of international textiles–Iranian pateh. See all the lovely photos at her blog post.