Month: May 2014

Feathered Chain Stitch

Hand embroidery stitches / Stitch Dictionary   / / / / / 13 Comments

Feathered Chain Stitch is made up of long tailed chain stitch worked in a zig-zag manner. Long-tail chain is simply a chain stitch with a long tie stitch.  If you are a beginner you need to be able to work chain stitch before doing this variety. Work each long tail …

Let me tell you about Colour Streams

Fiber and Textile Arts / Hand Embroidery16 Comments

A couple of weeks ago I was kindly sent some of the Colourstreams products and agreed to write a review. Once I opened the packet I realised that I wanted to use their goodies in a project not just sample their threads and move on to other stitching tasks.  I …