How to make holly berries for Christmas

This week with the holiday season fast approaching I thought for our Friday freebie I would point you towards a blog titled Kézzel és Lélekkel Mánya has written a great tutorial on how to make Holly Berries using cup stitch worked in a little ball. I can see this applied to …

Free Tutorial on how to do coil stitch in pulled thread

There are not many tutorials online that cover pulled thread embroidery. There is a reason for this as describing how to get the correct tension is complex and often there are many steps involved. If you have ever wanted to try some pulled work try this new tutorial over on …

Hardanger Basic Hand Stitches

How to stitch the basic Hardanger stitches are illustrated in this video. It includes animated demonstrations of creating Kloster Blocks, Woven Bars, Dove’s Eyes, Buttonhole Corners, and cutting. Thanks  goes to Lorelei Halley who shared a link to this tutorial on Basic Hardanger stitches. Lorelei has lots of very useful …

Sites worth bookmarking: The National Quilt Register

Most Aussie quilters know the National Quilt Register website but if you don’t do make a cuppa, and take some time to enjoy it. Quilts and their back story are fascinating as they often they hold within them family stories. For instance  years ago I made a quilt for Eve, …