This freebie design from the Kreinik website for a Black Magic Butterfly could be easily included on a crazy quilt block by using waste canvas or as part of needlework sampler. Check it out its nicer than the run of the mill freebies.
Japanese Embroidery is simply exquisite there is not other way of describing it. The Grammar of Japanese Embroidery Design is an article in two parts by Dolly Fehd. The first section focuses on history and motifs in Japanese embroidery. The second part is illustrated and continues with the symbolism found …
Needlework and Embroidery Scissors is a brief article which offers some advice on choosing scissors for hand embroidery. Starting off Using the Loop Method is as the title says directions on how to start a thread using this method. It works for most thread where the direction of the most …
Bhavani of Needlecraft has started a series of illustrated tutorials and details on Huck embroidery. Huck and pattern darning is a form of even weave embroidery which has always fascinated me as it is so simple yet produces some wonderful patterning. If you are interested in exploring this form of …
A couple of weeks back I pointed to Squidoo. Discovering this was fatal I am afraid, as I have been going through bookmarks, this blog and doing a few extra searches and building a couple of my own squidoo link sites. The idea behind a Squidoo list, or what they …
I have been doing a bit of a bookmark tidy up which for some reason always leads to more sites. I discovered this brief History of Brazilian Embroidery and on the same site this list of stitches used in this style of embroidery. This Dictionary of stitches used in even …
Linda at Chloe’s place is trying to date and track down information about a particularly interesting piece of embroidery she found in her latest museum trawl. Linda does catalogue work at her local museum and has turned up this interesting mystery piece Do check it out and see if you …
