Cassandra continues Embroidery School over on Ooo! Shiny! with Lesson 3: Transferring patterns. Check out the tute.
Make Lobster Louie
Yet another adorable felt-applique sculpture from Creative Breathing: Lobster Louie. Get the free pattern and instructions from her blog post.
Ed. note: We got word through Twitter that this post had a bad link. It’s fixed now!
Stitch an Anna Maria design
Fabric designer Anna Maria Horner has put together a pattern and tutorial for creating a traditional linen–a table scarf–with an untraditional design. The Plaid Pods embroidery was inspired by her Buoyancy print, which she used on the reverse. She released … Read More...
Susan Lenz in Arkansas
Susan Lenz (Art in Stitches) is sharing her month-long journey as artist in residence at Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas. You already know I love Susan’s work. You may not know that I live in central Arkansas, only … Read More...
Pay it Forward with Urban Threads
We got this great announcement from Karline and the rest of the crew at Urban Threads:
… Read More...We just put up a new “pay it forward” freebie — a rescue pawprint design that people can use on tees, dog bandanas,
Learn about Palestinian embroidery
Hannah of enbrouderie show us a traditional work of Palestinian embroidery. Cross-stitch! I had no idea! Find out more from her blog post.
Win 9 patterns at Split Stitch
There’s a huge honkin pattern giveaway going on over at The Split Stitch. Go to the blog post to enter before August 16.
Wrap your hoops
Phillipa of Stitching Always recommends wrapping your embroidery hoops and explains a bit about how to do it. Go to her blog post.
Inspiration: JafaBrit’s Art
Jafagirl of JafaBrit’s Art describes this piece as “Hand embroidery on linen, long and short stitch, couching and satin stitch.” But it’s so much more. Go to her blog post for a photo that you can enlarge and study.
Free pattern: Little quacker
Creative Breathing shares the pattern and tips for creating another of her precious felt-applique sculptures, Cape Cod Quacker. Go to her blog post to download the pattern.
Recent stitch tutorials
Free charts: Bookmarks
Free hand-embroidery patterns
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 range from simple cross-stitch patterns to more complex floral and animal … Read More...
Free cross-stitch charts
Attend EGA’s Flamingo Fandango
The Kreinik Thread Blog shared a brochure for the meeting of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America this September in Naples, Florida. I intended to take a quick glance and got caught up for at least a half-hour. Dozens of opportunities … Read More...
Join the Magic Feather Project
You know how much I love Jude Hill‘s feathers. So you’ll understand how thrilled I am that, as usual, Jude has transformed a little stitchy experiment into an opportunity for education, community, and philanthropy. She has started The … Read More...
New work from Joetta Maue
Stitch artist Joetta Maue has updated her website in anticipation of an exhibit opening tomorrow. I found lots of work in her refreshed gallery that I haven’t seen before. Delicious! Check out her site.
Inspiration: TiLT’s Creations
I heart the sketchy machine embroideries by TiLT’s Creations. See more at her blog.
Tutorial: Stitched cards
Allison of Little Lovelies walks us through the steps of creating hand-stitched greeting cards like these cuties. See the tute.
Tutorial: Bernina-stitched inchies
If you liked the machine-embroidered inchies by Annette of Thread Addict, you will love her new post. It walks you through the process of creating these little works on a Bernina with Artista V5 software. See the tute.