In Garden Stitch Life , embroidery artist Kazuko Aoki invites you into her enchanting world of garden-themed embroidery. She allows us up close and personal, revealing her creative secrets and processes. There is the ‘from sketch to stitch’ approach, showcasing how we can use inspiration around us via the natural world to inspire our creative processes.
Using a limited palette, Martha Blackburn’s embroidered portraits reflect a moment in human experience. It’s another Funk Files interview with an award-winning embroidery pioneer.
Lace Reimagined: 30 Inspiring Projects for Making and Using Lace Creatively by Elisabeth Healey is published by Search Press. When we think of Lace, often a traditional image comes to mind, something old fashioned. This book helps us to reimagine our conception of this textile embroidery technique, featuring some thirty step by step projects which showcase lace making as a modern and contemporary form of art.
If you have questions about using glow-in-the-dark thread, we’ve got answers! It’s another Kreinik Calling post from Mr X Stitch!
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.
Rotem Izhaki is the first-place winner in the Student Fashion Category at the 2020 Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery and her embroidered and smocked shirt is technically excellent and aesthetically admirable.
It’s Issue 12 of XStitch Magazine and the theme is Noir! This issue is a tale of murder and mystery featuring fifteen cross stitch designs that are inspired by the Noir genre. Get your copy now!
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.
Welcome to Issue 13 of XStitch Magazine – Fortune! 15 eclectic cross stitch patterns from an international cohort of designers! Get your copy now!
The Motherhood of Art, written by Marissa Huber and Heather Kirtland is published by Schiffer Publishing Ltd. This hardback publication celebrates mothers and showcases how many have been successful at balancing art with caring for their children. Many styles of art are discussed, including dyeing, painting, weaving and embroidery.
Issue 14 of XStitch Magazine is another legendary Mixtape Issue! No theme, just 19 awesome modern cross stitch patterns you’ll love to stitch from an international cohort of designers!
Every year, Hand & Lock organizes a competition for the prestigious Prize for Embroidery to promote the use of hand embroidery and to discover emerging