Bullion stitches are often a challenge to embroiderers so here are a few tips for working them. With Bullion use a milliners needle as a milliners needle is the same diameter from point to eye and this means the thread will slide along the needle easily. Also use a thread …
Kay Susan of smockery has jumped in to the 6 x 4 lives challenge. The challenge is to produce a fiber postcard once a month that records what you have been exploring, doing, or thinking about. Kay Susan has illustrated how she made her fabric postcard which reflects heat wave …
There is a great Crazy Quilted Postcards Tutorial over on Calidore’s Garden Ramblings . A cardboard window frame is used to assist is composing the arrangement. I do this for all the postcards I make as it just helps me to pull things together.
I came across this snippet of textile history. The story of how chenille was invented by Catherine Evans Whitener is covered in a brief article Chenille: American Women’s Ingenuity by Christina Lynn Whited In 1895, when she was 15, she decided to sew a household gift for her brother, who …
Regular readers will know that each month I have been making a postcard in fabric for the 6 x 4 lives challenge. Yesterday I loaded this image on to flickr so I just made the daedline. This fabric postcard is an experimental piece of hand embroidery. It commenced life being …
I received an email from Bhavani of Needlecraft who discovered a great site about Lagartera, a Spanish form of embroidery. This site is in Spanish so you will need to translate it. I used Google’s translating service and spent a good while exploring the site. Spanish Embroidering History And Tradition …
Leena Lahteenmaki has provided a full course of drafting lessons. The course is written in conjunction with drafting software but if you do the math the principles are the same. I am sure costumers, dress makers and even those interested in recutting and recycling garments will find the knowledge useful. …
