Craft Gossip

Deepa of This and That blog has been sharing a whole series of posts on outlining stitches. You’ll want to see them all. Read the latest post and then browse back.

Have you been sticking strictly to straight seams for your crazy quilting? Are you scared that you’d never be able to get a curved seam to lie flat? Allie to the rescue! An abundantly illustrated tutorial, Curved Foundation Piecing, is available…

Rick-rack flowers are popping up here and there across the web suddenly. Some look like little wads and blobs. Some are lovely daisy-looking little posies. And now Sheila of Cheeky Magpie blog has come up with a variation that looks like a…

Kelly Fletcher of materialistic blog has released the fifth in her series of eight Jacobean leaf designs for hand embroidery. The designs are free for your personal use. Get the pattern.

Be sure to see the interview of needle artist Odile Gova (aka Wooly Fabulous) over on Donkeywolf blog. The photos alone will take your breath away. See the post. I hope Wooly starts her own blog!

johloh is sharing an original sampler pattern that warms the hearts of scifi geeks like me. The post on Sprite Stitch says,

I cooked up this simple pattern after being inspired by the wonderful work that beefranck is doing. I wanted to make it…

Janet Perry of Nuts About Needlepoint has been experimenting with stitching on silk gauze. See what she has to say.

Oh, my goodness! Look what Tattyhead Linda S Davies invented: Freesia! So beautiful. See more on Linda’s blog.