Playing with beads has to be one of my favourite ways to relax and I think stacked beads is my current obsession. I have recently started to experiment with stacking beads and folding sequins and thought I would share what is on the hoop. (Click on the images if you …
Summer seaside is a panel of encrusted embroidery that I finished a while back and never got around to sharing with my readers. I realised this while searching through my photos. To see a larger version of the Summer Seaside panel, click not the photo. As you can see, this …
Bold colours! I often stitch up a small area in a colour scheme that I think might be interesting. This is my latest and since it is fresh off the hoop, I thought I would share it. At first I thought this colour scheme was a little too bold to …
This is article I move from studio journal design to embroidered piece. This is an example of taking a design in my studio journal and stitching it. I will start with sharing a photo of the finished project. The source of the design The idea for this project started because …
As you can see it is this encrusted highly textured sampler is fresh off the hoop and still to be blocked. Today I plan to share how I designed and stitched this sampler. This bone sampler is both surface embroidery, combined with textured stitches and beadwork. It is a contemporary …
Well as some of you may remember a couple of weeks of ago I was agonizing over Robin Atkins 2007 Bead journal project. I was feeling a pressed for time. For although most of those in the Northern hemisphere are thinking of their summer holidays our work year is in …
For 20 years – yes I worked it out that it’s 20 years since I first started crazy quilting. Ever since storage has been an issue and as the stash has grown so have the storage solutions but I think Jerry has built me what I want. In the beginning …
