Val Laird is sharing a tutorial for creating her signature bullion roses. Go to her website, scroll down to the bottom, and click the photo to download the tute as a PDF file.
The bullion knot rose is made … Read More...
Tutorial: Up-and-down feather stitch
This week’s TAST challenge is up-and-down feather stitch. What could be more perfect for a vine? See the tute on SharonB’s Pin Tangle blog.
Video tutorial: Bullion stitch
Lakshmi of Hand Embroidery from Sadalas has put together a couple of video tutorials for bullion stitch. When I see her do it, it seems so possible. But when I’m at home with my needle, it never works out. I … Read More...
Tutorial: Embroidered hanging loops
Aneela of comfortstitching shows us how to embroider hanging loops onto the back of a fabric project such as an art quilt. See the tute.
Video tutorial: Needle-tatted pendant
Silk-gauze pattern transfer
Lisa Tressler is guest blogging on Needle ‘n’ Thread with a terrific article about using silk gauze as a medium for transferring embroidery designs. Very old concept + modern tools and materials = rockin methodology. See Lisa’s post.
Tutorial: Punto Rodi
Jeanine in Canada (Italian Needlework blog) shows us how to do Punto Rodi or Rodi Stitch. She says,
… Read More...[It] is a Pulled Thread Stitch used for filling spaces of a design and creating a light, open area. It
Techniques: Using Texture Stamps
Join Nancy Doren on the Scrapbooking from the Inside Out blog for some really cool and interesting ways to use texture stamps on your cards and scrapbook pages. Click here for her tutorial.
-Heather
Why use cable stitch?
Tenar of Tenar’s Cave says,
… Read More...Cable stitch is a useful and beautiful stitch in pulled thread work, but I never got why it should be used in normal surface embroidery. I mean, it produces lines of stitches you can easier
Tutorial: Machine embroidery on leather
Anja Rieger says “it is amazingly easy” to create these keychains by machine-embroidering on leather. See the tute.
Video tutorial: Needle-tatting
TotusMel shows us how to needle-tat split rings and Josephine chains. Have a look and post a comment — let’s encourage her to give us more rockin tutorials. See the tute.
Project: Year You Were Born Card
Want to make a unique card that will treasured? Why not try a “Year You Were Born” card with lots of interesting fun facts about the year that special birthday guy or gal was born. Visit the Isn’t that Sweet … Read More...
Fireflies as hair ornaments
Look what Mollie Johanson did: Some tiny bits of felt, some tiny stitches with glow-in-the-dark floss, a couple of bobbie pins…and Mollie has fireflies in her hair! Brilliant! Get the details from Mollie’s Wild Olive blog.
Learning is free at Stitch School
Janet McCaffrey has started Stitch School blog to store her stitch tutorials and free patterns. There’s a lot to love! Recent tutes:
Woven filling stitch
Wheatear stitch
Vandyke stitch
Up-and-down buttonhole stitch
Twisted chain stitch
Another beautiful combo from SharonB
This stitch combination is rich yet elegantly simple. SharonB of Pin Tangle blog stitched the sample in her For the Love of Stitching band sampler. She says,
… Read More...This band of stitching is made up of row of herringbone stitch which
Freebie: Dog Bone Gift Tote
Isn’t this the cutest darn thing?? Alex Maldonado shares a free down loadable pattern and instructions on how to make this adorable dog bone gift tote. Click here to visit her blog Fairy Blossoms and Life to get the pattern … Read More...
Tutorial: Shadow work
Deepa of This and That blog has posted a new tutorial. Yea! This time, she lets us follow along on her first experience with shadow work on organza. I think you’ll agree that the results are beautiful. See Deepa’s tute… Read More...
Tutorial: Wave stitch
This week’s TAST challenge is wave stitch. And it’s available a day early on SharonB‘s Pin Tangle blog. See the tute.
Hiding the thread
Tatter Jane Eborall answers the question, “How do you finish the end so there is no thread dangling?” If you want to tat jewelry, you’ll want to know the answer. See Jane’s post.
Video tutorial: Muvvala kuttu part 2
Lakshmi of Hand Embroidery from Sadalas has posted a new video tute — “the second part of Muvvala kuttu.” See her post.