Fun with Threads | Needlepoint
Whether you’re stitching from kits or buying your canvasses and fully picking your own threads, I’m hoping this column will introduce you to some exciting new ways to bring another dimension to your projects.
Whether you’re stitching from kits or buying your canvasses and fully picking your own threads, I’m hoping this column will introduce you to some exciting new ways to bring another dimension to your projects.
Our third episode is with Emma Homent, aka The Makers Marks, a needlepoint designer and craft connector. Her book, Needlepoint – A Modern Stitch Dictionary
Whilst you’re saving up for your next big project how about trying your hand at a counted needlepoint piece working from a chart. What better way to use up your thread stash!
The needlepoint scene in the UK feels like it’s having a bit of a renaissance. Fresh new talents are joining the modern trailblazing designers like Emily Peacock and Hannah Bass, adding their voices to a championing of colour and contemporary aesthetics.
Looking to up your stitching game this year? One of the best ways to start is to equip yourself with crafty gadgets to make your life easier.
I am an absolute sucker for stitching accessories, with multiple needle minders and embroidery scissors in amongst my stash.
So what cute crafting notions are there out there?, let’s investigate!
Decorative stitches are a great way to add your own spin to a needlepoint canvas, stretching your creative legs and making it uniquely yours.
Emma from the Makers’ Marks shares some of the needlepoint stitching fundamentals and handy hints to help you get started putting thread to canvas.
Today I’m picking up where Shannan left off, in last months column, and jumping into needlepoint’s Edwardian era right up to the present day.
Welcome to Issue 13 of XStitch Magazine – Fortune! 15 eclectic cross stitch patterns from an international cohort of designers! Get your copy now!
Thirteen designers, twelve weeks, two countries and one brief; this is Our Common Thread. Shannan Grierson from Bobbin & Fred introduces this new needlepoint collective and shares the process of their collective creative endeavours! Exclusive to Mr X Stitch!
The latest edition of the world’s best cross stitch magazine has arrived and it’s a corker! Issue 8 is our Munchies edition! As you’ve come