This month I’ve been thinking a lot about filling stitches – specifically satin stitch and long and short stitch. These are pretty much the go-to stitches for making up slabs of colour on your stitching but tend to get treated rather casually. You can certainly stitch across an area any…
Craftster Pick of the Week – Stitchalicious’ Nue Portrait
Time for another look at some of the great work featured in the forums at Craftster. Note: Although they’re the pick of this week, they may have appeared before this week. We love Berlin-based Jacinta Lodge, aka Stitchalicious, and it was a great thrill to see her latest piece of…
Needle Exchange: Stay Gold, Part I of III
Hi everybody and welcome back! This week we’re going to look at the history of Goldwork. Shiny. First, a quote from Exodus- “And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it…