Deeann Rieves | Machine Embroidery
Nashville based mixed-media artist, Deeann Rieves powerfully combines realism and abstraction, working areas of loose free shapes and line with refined careful stitches and dynamic painting.
Nashville based mixed-media artist, Deeann Rieves powerfully combines realism and abstraction, working areas of loose free shapes and line with refined careful stitches and dynamic painting.
Meet David Morrish, winner of the Wilcom Award for Digital Embroidery, Textile Art Category, in the 2019 Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery competition. His winning design, “Natural Order of Things,” depicts the demise of the Yorkshire textile industry and artisan skills as a result of industrialization. It’s another Funk Files interview by Jen Funk Weber for Mr X Stitch!
Digitizing With Dimension Unfortunately, some new machine embroiderers start out expecting their machines to be ‘thread printers’ using embroidery as simply another option for transferring
Creativity has rarely felt so important than during the pandemic. From crochet to quilting, textile art can provide solace during these turbulent times. Having so
The essential truth about machine embroidery is that there’s technically only one possible stitch. Your most amazing standard embroidery machine makes the same interlock stitch that any sewing machine has since the refined straight stitch machine.
Digitizing Detailed Designs Demystified Byzantine details, gradients, and tiny text can cause any digitizer to hesitate on a project. Complex art can evoke resistance or
Machine Embroidered Art – Painting the natural world with Needle and Thread Alison Holt Search press In this time of change, we have been gifted
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
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
Pull Compensation Continuing our ‘Digitizing 101’ theme, we’ll cover the most basic and yet most troublesome concept for budding digitizers – distortion. There is a
Our good host asked that I begin this adventure with a bit of ‘Digitizing 101’, and I am all too happy to oblige, though I
For a while now we’ve been getting feedback from you all on what columns were your favourites – this one came out tops, so we’ve