In my poking about I found that DMC has free designs for cross stitch, crochet and needlepoint canvas work that are available for download. Also there are come easy simple stitchery ideas suitable for children or beginners. The site also houses complete lists of their thread range, conversion charts and …
A chapter on shawls from Harper’s magazine December 1850 is available online. It describes the Cashmere shawl as “ A garment capable of appearing the most feminine and graceful in the world.” The article is a from a fashion spread of the day, is beautifully illustrated, and explains how the …
I found this handy Glossary of Embroidery terms which appears to be a handy resource site for machine embroiderers.
I did promise to start highlighting blogs again so here we go. I have been browsing around Monster crochet authored by Lady Linoleum. Of course with such a title there is a lot of crochet going on. Other interests of this talented woman are documented as well, softies, some very …
Liz of Dreaming Sprials has a new portfolio website which houses her textile work including images of her fabric post cards and journal quilts. Also housed on the site are images of work while she undertook the City and Guilds course in the UK . Liz’s design board and visual …
Thanks to Serena Fenton of Layers of Meaning for pointing towards an article on Suzhou or Su embroidery by Esther Read. Don’t miss it this style of embroidery is truly exceptional. Yes – I am still catching up on my blog reading …
Linda at Chloe’s place has been loading images of an old embroidery book into a flickr account she created for that purpose I simply love old embroidery books like this and particularly when people put them online as this is the way old stitches get rediscovered by needleworkers and crazy …
