(1) Chain stitch with variations from My Sweet Prairie
(2) Backstitch, stem stitch, double-threaded backstitch, French knot from My Sweet Prairie
(3) Needles and tension (needlepoint) from Be Stitched
(4) Updated chain stitch video from Needle ‘n’ Thread
(5) Outlining … Read More...
Recent tatting tutorials
Enjoy these tatting tutes from Tatted Treasures:
Keeping Tension After a Reverse
Reading Patterns and Making Projects, Part 2
A fabric-flower garland for your chair
Sara of creative jewish mom has given us tutorials for her fabric flowers and for making the flowers into napkin rings. Now she shows us how to turn the napkin rings into a gorgeous chair-back garland. Wouldn’t a couple of … Read More...
Tutorial: Hexie needlebook
Fiona of Designs by Fee shows us step-by-step how to create this sweet little hexie needlebook. A perfect gift for a stitchy friend — perhaps with a monogram or a bit of embroidered embellishment on the cover? Go to Fiona’s … Read More...
Pattern and tutorial: Blossom hair clip
Faith of ordinary mommy design shares the pattern and tutorial for this sweet felt-applique and embroidery hair clip. This would be fun to wear any day. And it might be the perfect finishing touch for your young one’s holiday outfit. … Read More...
Free Lampwork Tutorial – A Snowcone Bead from SodaLime Times
Free tutorials are always fun and here’s a cutie! It’s from Diane over at SodaLime Times, where lampworkers come to read all about it. Watch the video and learn how to make a snowcone bead. How perfect will that … Read More...
Recent tat tutes
Check out these recent tutorials from Tatted Treasures:
Which is the right side?
Reverse and turn work. An exploration.
A crocheter’s hand position
Build an inkle loom
Check out the rockin tutorial on Craftzine.com for building your own inkle loom. The guest post by Kristin Roach steps you through materials, tools, and construction with clear instructions and handy illustrations. She says,
… Read More...I love the way woven straps
Yarn do’s and don’ts
Have you thought about using knitting yarns for needlepoint? Janet Perry shares the do’s and don’ts. See her Nuts About Needlepoint post.
Tutorial: Tracing a design
Kathy of The Unbroken Thread lets us look over her shoulder as she develops an embroidery pattern from a majolica pattern. It’s not as hard as it sounds. Hint: tracing paper. See her tute.
Tutorial: Jellyfish danglies
Melissa Crowe of Checkout Girl shows us how to make these sweet jellyfish…er…dangly things. She says,
… Read More...If you enlarge or shrink the pattern pieces, you can make these in many sizes–attach them to a wooden hoop and you’d have a
Make a spider loom
Emilee Gettle‘s post on Craftzine.com shows us how to create a vintage-style spider loom from inexpensive materials. You can use the loom to create delicate square and circular pieces–popular in the 1930s and 40s–from the downloadable instructions. Go to … Read More...
Tutorial: Coffee gift bag
Mollie of Wild Olive shows us how to make a coffee gift bag featuring her adorable coffee-to-go embroidery design. Go to her tute.
Recent stitch tutorials
Filling with laid stitches
Kathy of The Unbroken Thread gives us a little tour of laid and couched stitches. Check out her post.
Tutorial: Embroidered felt carrots
Deborah Schlegel of Art Threads shows us how to make felt carrot softies complete with feather-stitched fronds. A beautiful and safe addition to your wee one’s play kitchen. See her tute.
Tutorial: String art painting
Another craft, popular in the 1970s, that is having a revivial is string art–winding fiber around a jig of nails or pins to create an image. Blair of wisecraft has come up with a completely brilliant application of this … Read More...
Make a doily dream catcher
Over on The Storque, guest-poster Jill of ILoveLune shows us how to create a dream catcher from a hoop and a vintage doily. See her tute.
Make a cutwork butterfly
Abbyjane of While She Naps shows us how to create a felt cutwork butterfly using an Exacto knife. These are adorable as-is, and I can easily imagine embellishing them with lots of pretty stitching and beading. Pretty on a hair … Read More...
Stitch a mod sampler
It’s not too late to stitch along with Janet Perry (Nuts About Needlepoint) on her Mod Sampler project. Check out her progress and get links to earlier posts.