Stitchers are always looking for images that can be adapted easily and used in a hand embroidery design. ClipSafari is a site that houses images that are free to use. I browsed ClipSafari for hand embroidery designs and picked out a few images to illustrate to my readers what they will …
If you like to customise gifts and home decor items with hand embroidery PicMonkey will help you design just the right thing. What is PicMonkey? It is a free easy to use photo editor online. (Since writing this Pic Monkey is no longer free but offers a free trial and …
5 Visual Design Elements to Improve Any Painting is a tutorial by Mark Mehaffey. His emphasis is on composition which can apply to textiles too!. Of course I immediately thought of applying his lessons to embroidery design and the design of crazy quilt blocks. Make a cuppa, take a break …
I got totally side tracked this morning playing with colour. Adobe has a free web based colour tool called Kuler. You can use it to create colour schemes, share them if you choose and store them if you want. The other way to find colour schemes is from a photograph. …
Over on A list Apart, Mike Rohde has written a good article about the advantages of using a sketchbook as a thinking tool. The points he makes in Sketching: the Visual Thinking Power Tool can be applied to any creative practice. That includes any creative practice that is associated with textiles. …
Juan Francisco Casas creates monumental realistic drawings using ball pens. Many people will have had art teachers say to that you cant get tonal values using a ballpoint pen. This artist definitely disproves their words as he magnifies digital photos and creates huge hand-drawn panels. There is no Photoshop involved …
I have previously written about the work of Rachel Hobson who represented the surface of the moon using textured embroidery techniques. The news is, Rachel has made it to round 2 in the NASA/Etsy Space Craft Contest. If her piece is voted into the top 20, it will get to …
