Kim of a dork with a needle shares her love for buttonhole stitch. From the example shown here, where she uses it for texture and definition, to her samples of buttonhole edgings–she proves it’s more versatile than you might think. … Read More...
More basic tatting tutes for left handers
The lessons in tatting basics continue on Heather‘s Tatted Treasures blog:
The difficulty with the double stitch is to always “transfer,” or “flip,” the knot from the working thread to the shuttle thread. Once you’ve … Read More...
Tutorial: Double CTJ
Tatting maven Jane Eborall has come up with a double continuous thread join that produces beautiful results with minimal sewing. Check out her tute.
How to stitch with glow-in-the-dark thread
Wendi Gratz of Shiny Happy World shares the inside scoop about stitching with a specialty thread. She says, “There are some quirks to using glow in the dark thread – and I talk about all of them here.” See her … Read More...
Tutorial: Cloudy needlebook
Deborah Schlegel of Art Threads shares her pattern and tutorial for a pretty little needlebook that mimics the skies over her Arizona home. Go to the tute.
Tutorial: Make a spare floss holder
Mollie Johanson of Wild Olive has come up with a clever, inexpensive way to preserve those scraps of floss that are too large to throw away but divided or otherwise too small to wind back onto the bobbin. She explains … Read More...
Tatting for beginners
If you’d like to try your hand at tatting but you don’t have a clue how to start, you’re in luck! Heather of Tatted Treasures has started a new series of tutorials for absolute beginners. Go to the first lesson… Read More...
Stitch a felt birdie
Abby of While She Naps shares the pattern and tutorial for this sweet felt-sculpture bird. Go to her blog post for the tute.
Ellen Dooley Shares Tutorials and Stuff
I’m always on the lookout for tutorials to share with all of you. So occasionally I ask Mr. google for some assistance. He almost always comes through for me. I even find a multitude of things I’ve already posted. That … Read More...
Tutorial: Transferring embroidery patterns
Cassandra continues Embroidery School over on Ooo! Shiny! with Lesson 3: Transferring patterns. Check out the tute.
Make a huggable amphibian
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Trixi of Coloured Buttons shares the pattern and tips for creating her Froggy softie. Go to her blog post for the download. And while you’re there, check out the teensy froggy her son found in his yard in Hong
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.
Learn needlepoint damask
Janet Perry of Nuts About Needlepoint explains needlepoint damask and shares a bunch of charts for you to try out this effect. Check it out at her blog post.
Recent stitch tutorials
Mason Jar Chandelier – from Instructables
I love the web site instructables. So many cool and funky how-to’s. And occasionally they have a glass related project. This one’s a goodie. Mason Jar Chandelier. It looks good and it’s inexpensive to make. Something we can all … Read More...
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.
Bullseye Quick Tip – Frit Balls
The picture Bullseye is using for this quick tip makes me crazy because I absolutely love opaline glass, which is the glass used. So lovely! So I’m just going to paste in the copy from the email and say, “for … Read More...
More lessons from Mary
Mary Corbet of Needle ‘n’ Thread continues her series on embroidery basics with
5 Things You Need to Know About Hand Embroidery Fabric
and
5 Things You Need to Know About Hand Embroidery Needles
Be sure to check them out.
Tutorial: Add embroidery to a veil
Mamameme has posted a tutorial on Instructables for adding embroidery to a bridal veil. She says the example
… Read More...…is fairly simple to meet the bride’s request, but you could make it as intricate as you like or add beads or