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!
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!
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.
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.
There are times when using silk thread is absolutely worth it; just as quilters know to use the best quality fabrics for a lasting quilt,
Today on Lets Book! We are reviewing Artful Embroidery on Canvas by Irene Schlesinger, an easy-to-learn book of tutorials packed full of impressive stitches and mixed-media ideas all intended to be stretched over canvas. Read on for more.
PONY Certain Stitch Needles have a coloured band that ensures you get a consistent stitch length in your embroidery. It’s genius!
Embroidery Digitizing in the Real World Digitizers-in-training justifiably bemoan the lack of a single, clear-cut methodology for creating embroidery designs. Whether a digitizer starts as
Using your Sewing Machine and Puffy Foam to create a 3d Foam Embroidery is a great way to take your Embroidery Design skills to the
Dear Ghost, I monogrammed a bag for myself on a whim; now that people have seen it, I’m constantly asked to create monogrammed gear; I
Are you surrounded by colorful, cheerful, bright flowers today? I hope so; a spot of nature always refreshes, and even more so when it comes
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
Take a look at this gorgeous new design by Ellen Brown of Waterweave, a needlepoint canvas company. She has recreated in thread a vibrational phenomena known as Cymatics; the design shows