Photoshop tutorials


Warning: Trying to access array offset on null in /home/inamin5/public_html/pintangle.com/wp-content/themes/kahuna/includes/loop.php on line 298

This list of 40 Outstanding Photo Manipulation Tutorials is worth browsing and doing some of the free tuts! I realise only a percentage of my readers have and use Photoshop. An even greater percentage of readers have Photoshop but do not use it because they find it too difficult.  I could …

Tutorial: how to make circular ribbon fabric flowers


Warning: Trying to access array offset on null in /home/inamin5/public_html/pintangle.com/wp-content/themes/kahuna/includes/loop.php on line 298

On the Threads magazine site  I found this new tutorial by Kenneth King on how to make a Circular Ribbon Flower. The fabric flower illustrated is quite large but for those who want to make flowers to attach to embroidery or crazy quilting you can make smaller flowers. Kenneth King …

Sites worth exploring: The Visual Dictionary


Warning: Trying to access array offset on null in /home/inamin5/public_html/pintangle.com/wp-content/themes/kahuna/includes/loop.php on line 298

Anyone who enjoys quirky signs and signage will enjoy this site. The Visual Dictionary is described as …”a collection of words in the real world. Photographs of signage, graffiti, advertising, tattoos, you name it, we’re trying to catalogue it.” With over seven and half thousand images they have got a …

Sites worth bookmarking: Hoop love


Warning: Trying to access array offset on null in /home/inamin5/public_html/pintangle.com/wp-content/themes/kahuna/includes/loop.php on line 298

If you enjoy vintage embroidery or collect vintage embroidery transfers this site is worth bookmarking and browsing regularly. Hoop love is a  flickr group devoted to sharing vintage embroidery transfers that are out of copyright. There are thousands  of designs that have been posted to the group. If you are as …

Turning a photo into a design


Warning: Trying to access array offset on null in /home/inamin5/public_html/pintangle.com/wp-content/themes/kahuna/includes/loop.php on line 298

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 …

Free French hand embroidery patterns


Warning: Trying to access array offset on null in /home/inamin5/public_html/pintangle.com/wp-content/themes/kahuna/includes/loop.php on line 298

The post for these lovely free designs has been updated you will find here Yes, and there is a whole book of them!

A free fun font for stitchers


Warning: Trying to access array offset on null in /home/inamin5/public_html/pintangle.com/wp-content/themes/kahuna/includes/loop.php on line 298

I was tempted to title this a A free fun font for fabulous fantastic funny stitchers but I resisted. I was poking around Font Squirrel and found Costura a free cross stitch font which I could not resist.