Stitching

Workshops – An Insider’s View

Ailish Henderson shares her portfolio of textile workshops and explains the techniques you can learn. From hand stitch to bonded fabrics, Ailish teaches a range of subjects and you can learn about them here!

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all about vegetables | soft sculpture

This month, I am pleased to bring you some truly wonderful vegetables sculptures that I have recently discovered. Hope you will like them! Scroll down to see different perspectives on that topic and discover amazing artists.

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Simply Stitched with Embroidery by Yumiko Higuchi

Simply Stitched with Embroidery: Create Artful Motifs for Purses and More by Yumiko Higuchi is published by Zakka Workshop. With its focus on folk art style embroidery, which has been given a Japanese twist by the author, this publication contains many step by step photographs to visually teach how to create certain projects.

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These gorgeous, rich shades of purple are in the form of Kreinik Braid. This brilliant thread is meant to be used alone (not used as a carry-along) to add a bolder metallic look to a design. Washable, dry cleanable, available in several sizes to suit different counts of fabric/canvas and different stitches. Explore more here: http://www.kreinik.com/shops/Metallic-Threads/

Your Daily Thread

Today I got a warning (a threat?), a message of doom, one that I wasn’t expecting and that I certainly didn’t have time for this

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