Yvette Stanton of Vetty Creations and White Threads blog has posted a video on YouTube showing how to create knitted fringe to trim Mountmellick embroidery. She says,
… Read More...This is the ONLY video on the net of how to do this!
Giveaway: Orna Willis ultrasuede bag
Look what Orna Willis made! Want it? Orna is giving it away! She says,
… Read More...For this Giveaway, I designed a beautiful “Paper Bag” with two contrasting shades of Ultrasuede® to highlight the simple familiar lines of a classic grocery store
Apply for a textile-artist residency at TAC
Abigail Doan gives the heads-up that the Textile Arts Center (Brooklyn, NY, USA) is starting a new program that will offer studio residencies to six textile artists. The program begins January 2011; applications are due December 5, 2010. Get more … Read More...
Inspiration: Agulhas da Meri
Meri of Agulhas da Meri developed her design for this embroidered table runner from a pattern shown in a magazine that was intended for painting. Meri says,
… Read More...I’ve enlarged a lot the design and I’ve taken the branch movements, adding
Tutorial: Woven cross-stitch
KERRYKATIECAKES shows us how to do woven cross-stitch, which she says “is a very pretty stitch and well worth the effort it takes to learn it – not as complicated as it looks either.” See the tute.
Three-hole tatting shuttles are available
Heather Johnston of The Tarnished Tatter has developed three-hole ceramic tatting shuttles, and she’s selling them on Artfire. Go to Heather’s blog post for the details and links.
Ed. note: Heather didn’t request or compensate this post. I just … Read More...
Giveaway: Samplers book
Needleprint blog is giving away…
… Read More...…the seminal book Samplers by Donald King of the V&A in London. And it is the First Edition of 1960. It includes 89 good b&w images of samplers in the V&A collection and every sampler
Free charts from Kincavel Krosses
Kell of Kincavel Krosses has been knocking herself out, cranking out wonderful charts to share with us. Check these out:
(1) Espresso Yourself
(2) Rickrolled
(3) Hot Chocolate — Liquid Heaven
(4) Quaker Chess Board
(5) Tea for 2
(6) … Read More...
Winter piggies from Anja
Anja Rieger‘s latest series of fanciful machine-embroidery designs: little piggies enjoying winter. See more on Anja’s blog.
Free charts: Cross-stitch
(1) Coucou! from Cachounette (no longer available as of 3/14/12)
(2) Machine à coudre ancienne from Cachounette
(3) Blackwork patchwork sampler from Angie Designer
(4) Tricot from Les petits bonheurs de Miss T
(5) Quand je serai grand from Les … Read More...
Free charts: Cross-stitch
Free charts: Cross-stitch
Free catalog from Janet Granger
Janet Granger‘s new dollhouse embroidery catalogue is available as a free download. Grab it!
Inspiration: Melissa Sue Stanley
Eeeeeeeeee! The cuteness is almost unbearable! Melissa Sue Stanley. art=love=life. Go there.
Inspiration: Judy Coates Perez
If you’re art quilter Judy Coates Perez, you can add a bit of embroidery to some felted wool balls, and — tada! — Dia de Los Muertos skulls! See more at Judy’s Painted Threads blog post.
Free CQ blocks from Janet Stauffacher
Here are a couple of beautiful free foundation designs for crazy-quilt blocks from Janet Stauffacher of Nostalgic NeedleART, featuring images from her antique postcard collection. Janet says,
… Read More...Print [the block] directly onto computer printer fabric with your inkjet printer,
Free designs: New from Corvus
Here are two new creepily marvelous designs from Corvus tristis for your personal stitchy edification: a hot-air-ballooning octopus (How did that happen?) and the smallpox virus in border and paisley variations. Thank you, Corvus!
Tutorial: Understanding thread tags
Janet Perry of Nuts About Needlepoint cautions us to hold onto the tags attached to new needlework threads. She says,
… Read More...You may not think so but there is lots of information there. And if you run out of thread, or
Tutorial: Mini pincushion
Pinta shows us how to make a precious mini pincushion. The text is in Italian; but the photos are so clear and their order is so logical, you probably won’t need to translate the words. See the tute.
Tutorial: How to stitch line art
Aimee Ray of little dear tracks shows us how she achieves the signature look of her embroidery. She says,
… Read More...When you start out with a line art embroidery pattern, the possibilities are endless. I purposefully don’t specify which stitches or