At the beginning of lockdown I decided to try and do something positive amid the Covid crisis. I started a series on Facebook and Instagram to help bring...

Quick Cross Stitch Pendant You know when you buy stuff and then find it again years later? Yeah. During a lockdown clear out of my craft drawers I found some funky copper look...

Distortion in Digitizing In this post, we're going to continue to tackle that scourge of all new digitizers, the distortion of the the on-screen design that happens when the...

Every year, Hand & Lock organizes a competition for the prestigious Prize for Embroidery to promote the use of hand embroidery and to discover emerging embroidery talent. The 2019...

all about sweets Welcome to Stitching It Real, where we explore soft sculptures and realism in embroidery. Let’s start with the topic I discover which...

Manca Ahlin is a Slovenian artist who fuses modern thinking on product design with traditional lacework techniques to create three-dimensional objects with elegant form and function. Find out more at...