For many years, I have been adding a strip of stitching to a long Stitch-roll or what is traditionally called a band sampler. My sampler is a strip of fabric where I improvise stitches, add bands in a freeform manner and often journal on it too. If you want to …
Ainu Running Stitch is a type of running stitch. It comes from the indigenous people of northern Japan and southeastern Russia, known as the Ainu. It was traditionally used on embroidered garments. Apart from traditional applications, Ainu Running Stitch lends itself to experimenting with different thicknesses of threads, different coloured threads, …
It has been a while since I have shared the progress for my 2020 project which is well overdue. I am still stitching it and probably it will become a 2021 quilt. I had trouble with my hands and a few other things happened which stalled the project. I am …
Some people worry about knots on the back of their project. In some cases there is a good reason. In other projects if you use knots to start a thread it is your business alone. Often people are embroidering a project that will have batting between the top layer where …
