Susan Elliott of Plays with Needles and her friend Teri have come up with a brilliant way to display Susan’s bead journal projects. Check it out at her blog post. And while you’re there, enjoy the close-up photos of … Read More...
Learn embroidery basics
Cassandra of Ooo! Shiny! is starting a series of online embroidery lessons, beginning with the very basics such as selecting fabrics, hoops, and needles. If you’re an embroidery novice, be sure to check it out. Go to her first post… Read More...
What to do with a vintage flower loom
Jennifer of Twin Fibers shares the results of her adventures with vintage flower looms. Beautiful! She also shares a link to online information in case you (like me) have a vintage loom but no instructions. Go to her post.
Stitch a card or tag
Paper artist Patricia Zapata of A Little Hut has crossed over into needlework with a simple but effective design of stitches on paper. Find out how she did it from her blog post.
Wind up your floss
If you’ve ever given yourself a crick-in-the-neck by winding up all your new skeins of floss onto bobbins (I sure have!), then you’re going to love this trick by Allison of Little Lovelies. Find out her secret.
Free cross-stitch charts
Heat + wrinkles = flower
This exquisite posy is the result of an experiment by JaneO of Gallimaufry. Tyvek and Texture Magic were involved. Get the specifics from her blog post.
Now you can shop TAFA!
TAFA: The Textile and Fiber Art List has launched a new online marketplace! Organizer Rachel Biel says,
… Read More...What makes me most proud: TAFA products are inclusive! There is no distinction of value between products made in one person’s studio or
How subversive are you?
I don’t want to say I have craft-ADD, but I do tend to point to anything in the needlework blogosphere that might be of interest to a segment of our readers—from appliqué to tatting, from antique reproductions to kawaii. I … Read More...
Stitch and win!
Check this announcement from Cross-stitching.com:
… Read More...This year, the National Cardmaker of the Year competition has introduced two brand new cross stitching categories, so that cross stitchers AND cardmakers can be in with a chance of scooping a range of
Distress your needlework
Kirsty Waight of The Little Floating Craft Company is applying the distress techniques she uses for greeting cards to fabric creations such as needlebooks. Beautiful. See more at her blog post.
Free cross-stitch charts
Easy, beautiful brooches
Barbara Cheeseman of Embroidery Overlaps gives us a look at some gorgeous little brooches she created, she says, from “just felt, some buttonhole stitch and beads, and a bit of organza and/or net, and a safety pin stitched on behind.” … Read More...
How to avoid needlepoint “dandruff”
Janet Perry of Nuts About Needlepoint explains how to overpaint a canvas to prevent light-colored backgrounds from showing through dark stitching. See her post.
Win a Fingerpricks original
Fingerpricks is giving away one of her rockin framed calaveras. Go to her blog post to find out how to enter. The deadline is Sunday, July 24.
A necklace fit for Frida
OMG, the awesomeness! rRradionica makes art necklaces using crochet and needlework techniques–fabric collage, fabric puffs, ribbon flowers. This new necklace is called Frida, and (using PhotoShop, I presume) she lets Frida try it on! (The iconic photo of Frida Kahlo … Read More...
A conference to die for
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 Clover flower makers
After you read Lazy Girl Joan Hawley‘s review of Clover’s new tools for creating kanzashi flowers, you will be ready to order! But before you do, enter her giveaway. You could win each of the six Kanzashi Flower Makers. … Read More...
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