Turning a photo into a design


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Over on Feeling Stitchy there is an excellent tutorial on How to turn a photograph into an embroidery design. Kirsty has illustrated the article step by step and I am sure many embroiderers will find it useful. So run over there …

A Trish Burr give away


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Mary Corbet from Needle n’ Thread is giving away a Trish Burr CD which features seven embroidery projects. Someone will be a very happy winner because Trish Burrs’s stuff verges on the edge of stitchers porn.  If you have not seen Trish Burr’s embroidery do visit her site. The gallery …

Madame Worth’s New Manual of Fancy Work

As regular readers know, I am addicted to the Antique Pattern Library as it is such an interesting and free resource. If you have not discovered it before now take a coffee break and have fun poking around these old books. Yesterday, I was doing just that poking around the …

Sites worth bookmarking: Craft Patterns and Tutorials


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Craft Patterns and Tutorials publishes tutorials and points to resources online. Published in both English and Turkish, anyone interested in hand embroidery techniques particularly Silk Ribbon will enjoy it. Crazy quilters will find much on the site to keep them busy too. So make a cuppa before you head over …

Sites worth bookmarking: Tutto Ricamo


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Tutto Ricamo is a bilingual site for stitchers. English speakers can click on the British flag to be taken to the English site. On this site you will find information about different styles of embroidery, free hand embroidery patterns, under techniques numerous pages on different embroidery styles including such styles …

Sites worth bookmarking: Annies Attic


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Annies Attic is a site for people interested in crochet, knitting, paper crafts, cross stitch and crafts for children. If you are unaware of the  site do swing by and explore the site. At first glance it looks to be a standard commercial site but exploring a little deeper leads …

The Tennessee Sampler Survey


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The Tennessee Sampler Survey website states that their aim it to document and preserve Tennessee’s needlework heritage. To quote the site “The Tennessee Sampler Survey was founded as a not-for-profit organization in 2004. Our mission is to document and preserve Tennessee’s needlework heritage. Our research includes documenting Tennessee samplers made …