Embroidery
February 18th, 2010 at 01:43pm
Under Sites We Love
I’ve been dabbling with embroidery for awhile now, trying to master the different stitches and the techniques. I love the possibilities of embroidery, with so much color and texture added to just about any fabric. Here are my favorite embroidery websites:
Feeling Stitchy- This is my favorite embroidery blog with new posts daily. On this blog, [...]
Continue Reading Link Love: 13 Embroidery Sites
Tags: Embroidery, links
By Caley
November 4th, 2009 at 06:55pm
Under News
Donna Dewberry, Joel Dewberry, Anna Maria Horner, Tina Givens and Kaffe Fassett, a few of today’s best known artists and quilting personalities have chosen some of their most popular artwork drawings and transformed them into beautiful, multi-formatted embroidery designs under the brand of Westminster Fibers Lifestyle Products.
The Designer Embroidery Collections include:
Donna Dewberry- Her famous brush [...]
Continue Reading Designers Transform Artwork into Embroidery
Tags: artwork, Embroidery, wall art
By Christine
October 9th, 2009 at 05:00am
Under Needlecraft
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National Sewing Month left many of you crafters craving other ideas for what to do with your needles. You asked for more plastic canvas and more free embroidery patterns, so we found them [...]
Continue Reading Plastic Canvas, Cross-Stitch and Embroidery for Fall
Tags: cross-stitch, Embroidery, plastic canvas
By Caley
August 31st, 2009 at 06:09am
Under Embroidery
My favorite craft is embroidery. I had never tried embroidery until the summer of 2000. It was something so foreign and familiar to me at the same time. I thought large portraits would be wonderful and also that it was high-time for some less traditional themes for people to stitch. I founded Sublime Stitching in [...]
Continue Reading Jenny Hart’s Embroidered Effects & Sublime Stitching
Tags: Embroidery
By Jenny Hart
May 6th, 2009 at 04:35am
Under Embroidery
Last Saturday, I attended two classes in a series called Crafternoon Tea. My first class was embroidery and it was a huge success! I can do all the basic embroidery stitches now and can even do french knots. To do a french knot, you bring the needle up from the bottom with the floss knotted [...]
Continue Reading Crafternoon Tea
Tags: Embroidery, patterns
By Caley
May 1st, 2009 at 03:23am
Under Embroidery+ Sites We Love
A certain fondness for pretty under-things and maintaining them well made me completely fall in love these Felt Corset Sachets. I’d love to throw a few in my top drawers (pun very much intended). These were found through my blog source of embroidery eye-candy Feeling Stitchy. Flickr user rectangel shares the free pattern for three [...]
Continue Reading Felt Corset Sachets
Tags: Embroidery, sachet, scent
By Caley
February 24th, 2009 at 09:18am
Under Embroidery
If you’re not already a fan of the comedy duo/band Flight of the Conchords, you will be after hearing songs like “Business Time” and “The Humans Are Dead” (sung by robots after the robot revolution). Not only are their songs hilarious, they’re really quite catchy! I’m humming one right now. Because I’m obsessed with all [...]
Continue Reading Flight of the Conchords Embroidery
Tags: Embroidery, flight of the conchords, link
By Caley
February 4th, 2009 at 09:48am
Under Embroidery+ Pop Culture
You may not know this about me, but I am a HUGE fan of The Price is Right. I started watching at age 3 with my babysitter and was determined from then on to meet Bob Barker, get on the show, play Plinko and take home wads of cash. Mock me all you want, but [...]
Continue Reading “Drew Carey is suprisingly easy to embroider”
Tags: Embroidery, Pop Culture, Totally Severe
By Mindy
January 26th, 2009 at 05:12am
Under Embroidery+ Etsy Picks
Earlier last week, I wrote a post on beginner’s embroidery and how I want to embroider a squid for my first project. For a little inspiration, I thought I would find the best examples of squid embroidery on Etsy. I will admit I’m a tad obsessed. Searching for such specific topics on Etsy is the [...]
Continue Reading Etsy Pick: Squid Embroidery
Tags: Embroidery, squids
By Caley
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