Check out this announcement from Threads e-zine:
… Read More...Embroidery… in the New World. A conference on embroidery including a fashion show, is being held November 3, 2011, at the Battery Park Gardens in New York City. It will be hosted by
Win 4 charts from Paulette
Check out the super giveaway over on Paulette Stewart‘s Plum Street Samplers blog. Paulette encourages you to enter for
… Read More...a chance to receive 3 currently-released Plum Street Samplers charts of your choice, as well as an e-voucher for
A stitchy memory aid
domestic-engineer posted her awesome cross-stitched Periodic Table of the Elements on Instructables. She says,
… Read More...I had this thought that if you made artwork out of the things you need to learn/memorize in school, maybe it would help by seeing
Free cross-stitch charts
Anna Maria hand stitches
Since Anna Maria Horner has gotten into the needlework business with her embroidery thread collections, she’s adding more hand-stitched detail to her sewing projects. Lovely! One of my favorite techniques–following and accenting a print with hand stitching–gets big play in … Read More...
Art and technology converge
Check out this astonishing work by Icelandic designer Thorunn Arnadottir, who incorporates QR codes into beadwork. QR codes are similar to the bar codes used to identify products but can encode more complex information. They can be read by … Read More...
Giveaway: Floss and pattern
Hillary Lang of Wee Wonderfuls is giving away this bundle of skeins of embroidery floss and the Book Club pattern shown here. Go to her blog post to enter. A deadline isn’t given, so you’d best hurry.
Artist video: Salley Mavor
See needle artist Sally Mavor in her own studio habitat, hear her talk about her work, and see the development of the fabric relief picture, Rabbitat. Go to the video.
Free cross-stitch charts
Texturing with chain stitch
Check out this sample of high-texture embroidery by SharonB of Pin Tangle. If this doesn’t make your fingers itch to stitch, nothing can! She says,
… Read More...I was experimenting with varieties of chain stitch which included oyster stitch and cable
Read the Hand & Lock zine
The latest edition of Hand and Lock Embroidery‘s free e-zine is available now. Check it out.
Inspiration: Megan Noel
Sometimes I make beaded art dolls. I’m not really good at it, but it’s great fun. I’d forgotten how I got started until I saw a recent post by Megan Noel, where she re-shared her amazing Yeti doll (shown … Read More...
Free summer CS alphabet
Gloria of Blog di Gloria has a new series of cross-stitch monograms perfect for summer. Scroll through her blog to pick up of all of the free charts so far. And be sure to bookmark Blog di Gloria so you … Read More...
Free cross-stitch charts
A dozen bookmarks
Embroidery thrives in China
Enjoy Rebecca Kanthor‘s post on The Storque about popular embroidery trends in China. Her first-hand experiences make for good reading, and the peek into the unusual tradition of hand-embellished insoles will probably have you googling around all over the … Read More...
A source for free Middle Eastern motifs
Long name, great content: Mathilde Eschenbach’s Charts for Medieval Egyptian Counted-Thread Embroidery. This site is an index of free motifs of mainly Middle Eastern origins for double running stitch, pattern darning, and cross-stitch. Check it out.
And many thanks … Read More...
Rock me, Amadeus!
Deriana of DeriDolls rocks my face off all the time. But she completely knocked me flat with her teeny tiny interpretation of Tom Hulce as Mozart. Oh, the awesomeness! See more on her blog post.
Remembrance tree
This idea is so brilliant, perfect, and touching, it gave me tears. Astrid of Red Red Completely Red says,
… Read More...When Tilly was born, my grandmother, Mormor, gave us a tree. We picked out an oak and planted it in the
Win a Pilli Pilli original
Pilli Pilli is celebrating her birthday by giving away the winner’s choice of any item from her Etsy shop! Choosing is going to take some time–everything she makes is so wonderful. You’d better get started now. Go to her blog … Read More...