Cretan stitch can be used in many decorative ways. With it, you can fill a shape, create a border, or create a line. If you arrange rows of Cretan stitch in lines, it makes a wonderful filling stitch to work within a shape. You can also use it to couch …
This area is part of section 36 on of the For Love of Stitching band sampler is a quote by John Updike who has just died. It was a quote that had meant something to me so I stitched it on my sampler. Thread: The thread is hand dyed silk. Fabric: …
This embroidered seam is found as part of block 54 of the I Dropped the Button Box Quilt. The knitting ribbon is laced on a founation of arrow stitch and I added beads, straight stitches and detached chain stitches. What is the story? This regularly published series is categorised in the …
This free hand embroidery pattern is a very is a simplified mandala like design. I left areas open deliberately so that stitchers could use those spaces to explore fills, patterning or even some of the pulled thread stitches. I have a few suggestions for stitches you can use but they are …
This area is part of section 36 on of the For Love of Stitching band sampler. This area is an experiment that was inspired by the experiments in Algerian eye stitches I did a few bands before. Thread: The thread is hand dyed silk. Fabric: Hand dyed 18 cnt Aida Date: …
Work in Progress Wednesdays seem to arrive very quickly this year!Could be that life is very busy at the moment. This year I am participating in the Crazy Quilt Journal Project 2012 but I am off to late start. That said I have at least started! When I signed up …
Feather stitch is a wonderfully versatile, decorative, surface embroidery stitch. It is also known as single coral stitch, or briar stitch. Feather stitch is found extensively on traditional English smocks, Dorset embroidery and on crazy quilts. You can easily give a contemporary twist to the traditional uses of feather stitch, …
