I hope everyone enjoyed the last bits on redwork, I thought it was only fitting that we look at blackwork this week! Unlike many of the traditions we look at here, blackwork does not appear to have secret origins that we have to dig for. It is widely established that…
Craft Rocks: Jazz up that boring diary!
Happy new year everyone – but look at that crispy new diary on your work desk, all black and plain 🙁 How about we give it a facelift? 🙂 My good buddy Samantha Molloy is better known as Stitched Up Sam, an expert in free motion embroidery. She whizzes up…
Needle Exchange: Looking Back At Redwork
Hello everybody! This week we’re going to be looking at the history of redwork embroidery. What does that mean? If you Google the term “redwork embroidery”, the top searches that pop up seem to contain the same information, nearly verbatim. It reads something like “Redwork originated in Europe in the late 1800’s and…