Brigitte Read has written a great illustrated tutorial on how to make crochet Mollie flowers. Those who enjoy crochet both free form and in a more traditonal structure will enjoy making these and they are a great way to use up wool scraps and you can link them together to make larger …
This band of stitching is a needleweaving pattern created out of woven bars. Woven bars can be found on page 135 of The Embroidery Stitch Bible by Betty Barnden Thread: A hand dyed soft Danish cotton which feels and works up in a similar way to coton a broder and is matt …
MyPhotoStitch is a free online service which will take one of your photos and chart it ready for cross stitch. I decided to test it using this photograph. To use the program choose one of your photos on your computer. Make sure your photograph is under 1 MG as this …
Stitches: This seam is hidden behind a cluster of buttons which means when you look at the quilt you have to be very observant to notice it. It is a line of Cretan stitch embellished with seed beads. Thread: DMC perle thread #5 Placement and Foundation Fabric: This seam is …
This row of stitching is a band is a line of knotted Cable chain stitch Thread: A hand dyed cotton (crochet thread), which is about the same thickness and weight as perle #5 Fabric: The piece is worked on a scrap of furnishing fabric that I discovered in a swatch book from a soft furnishing …
Stitches: This seam is embroidered with a composite stitch. It is made up of a line a line of herringbone stitch, which has been laced and then the seam was further decorated with straight stitch and seed beads. Thread: DMC perle thread #5 and the lacing was done with rayon ribbon floss. Placement …
Go and check out this great crazy quilt on the Marie Osmond’s quilting challenge 2008 /2009 . This crazy quilt is by Dean Deerfield and called A Little Bit Country. When on the quilting challenge page if you click on the title you can see a really good image of it and …
