I am often asked how do you use thick, novelty and textured threads in embroidery and crazy quilting projects. The trick is to use couching techniques. There is a particularly good article on using couching and variations – Laying on the line explored by Jan Beaney. For those who have …
As everyone can see I have finished my bags of fun bag. I thought when I proposed the Bags of fun challenge I would have plenty of time to complete it but since I also created the gallery to host on my website I only just made the deadline! …
The last few evenings have been spent poking about the net looking at various Photoshop brushes mainly because I have been designing my own. I found some more great Photoshop brushes online and thought I may as well share the links. Most people require a link back to their site …
There is sometimes a disagreement between lace makers and embroiderers about Needle lace. Lace makers claim it is lace because it is created with no foundation fabric and embroiderers claim it is embroidery because a needle rather than a bobbin is used to make it. Nevertheless it’s a technique that …
This is really a resource for those who own Photoshop. Kelly Gammons of opera floozy has designed and offered free some fantastic Photoshop brushes which you can download, unzip and drop the .abr file in the …/presets/brushes folder of in your Adobe directory. Only your imagination can limit you. Brushes …
Last year I posted a query on this blog about the technique of Sollerosom embroidery which I did not ever get a response to. I was trying to find out more about the technique but had no luck. Thanks to Ethnic Fiber Art the mystery is solved. On the site …
The Indiana University Library has published scans of all 128 plates in the 1922 edition of Oriental costumes: their designs and colors by Max Tilke, (1869-1942). The colour plates in this edition are just delightful as they are all hand drawn. Take a look at this Embroidered Bornu woman’s shirt …
