Sew Eco by Ruth Singer
Sew Eco by Ruth Singer is a compelling guide to sustainable textile arts, offering innovative projects and insights for eco-friendly creativity.
Sew Eco by Ruth Singer is a compelling guide to sustainable textile arts, offering innovative projects and insights for eco-friendly creativity.
Smocking is a well known traditional embroidery technique, which gathers fabric together into tight pleats so that is can stretch and return to its gathered shape. It is often used as a form of decoration on a garment, as the gathering of the material and stitches can be formulated to create patterns.
Digitizing With Dimension Unfortunately, some new machine embroiderers start out expecting their machines to be ‘thread printers’ using embroidery as simply another option for transferring
Here are our top tips to improve your filling stitches:
Use less strands at once when stitching.
Stitch in the same direction where possible.
Plan your stitching path in advance.
Consider using a laying tool.
Use long and short stitches to blend colour.
Mr X Stitch is here with seven tips to improve your cross stitch techniques!
Pull Compensation Continuing our ‘Digitizing 101’ theme, we’ll cover the most basic and yet most troublesome concept for budding digitizers – distortion. There is a
Our good host asked that I begin this adventure with a bit of ‘Digitizing 101’, and I am all too happy to oblige, though I
Learn how to choose the right embroidery tools in this comprehensive guide from Mr X Stitch.
One of the most useful ways of learning how to work with texture is to reduce your available colour palette. And if you want to really learn something go with just a single colour.
Today in Lets Book! We are reviewing Raised Embroidery by Kelley Aldridge. a practical, instructional guide that offers a complete grounding in the techniques you need for raised embroidery. Read on for more!
Christmas is coming so it’s time to get working on that gift list, and I think Sarah’s Hand Embroidery Tutorials eBook would be a welcome
Introduction This review of Sublime Stitching – Embroidered Effects by Jenny Hart, was previously released back in 2010 , however its such a