If you follow me on Instagram (@joburgess74) you’ll know I love blackwork stitching, and I love to sew at airports and on planes when I’m off to Northern Ireland to visit my lovely mum. Blackwork hearts are my favourite. I usually frame them and give them to friends, but this…
Size Does Matter – Picking The Right Cross Stitch Threads
Needleworkers have been cross stitching for centuries. While the simple “X” stitch hasn’t changed, what we “X” ON and what we “X” WITH has changed over time. Today’s threads include wool, cotton, silk, metallic, twine, bamboo, rayon, polyester, real metal, holographic, glow-in-the-dark, reflective, wired and more. We cross stitch on…
The Funk Files – Meet Lisa Carroll
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 2018 brief invited entrants to “celebrate culture, gender and individual heritage in the global atmosphere of transformation.” They were asked to make…