It is early in the year to start digging around for hand made gift ideas for Christmas but anyone who makes gifts knows how much energy can go into the process so we have to start early! We can only hope the recipients have a sense of this long thoughtful …
Do you know how to insert a zipper? Lots of people do not. Many younger readers do not have the advantage of being taught sewing at school and many basics including inserting a zipper properly is a problem. Threads magazine has produced a good video demonstrating how to insert a …
A bit of favourites tidy up led me to this interesting website. This collection of Embroidery from Boston is exhibited at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). There are a few band samplers in the collection so if you have been following the regular series about my band sampler …
Do you have trouble matching your points on intersecting seams? Threads magazine has provided a tutorial to solve your problems as Susan Khalje shows you how to line it all up in Sewing Perfect Matchpoints on Intersecting Seams This article made me realise that one of the reasons I like …
In this video Richard Box demonstrates how he progresses from drawing to finished textile art work using free hand machine embroidery. Even if you do not do machine embroidery there are all sorts of tips and advice about drawing your design on fabric etc
OK I am a bit late with this, but as readers know I run Stitchin Fingers and it had a question mark over it as NING is now charging. The good news is that NING announced their new plans, and the prices seem quite reasonable. I am sure some well …
Note Unfortunately Stitchin Fingers no longer exists as the site closed late 2016 so I have removed the links in this post Totally on the spur of the the moment I proposed people load a photo of their favourite needle case to the photos section of Stitchin Fingers and tag …
