Tilleke Schwarz has updated her website. If you have not encountered her work before do check it out as she is a Dutch contemporary embroiderer who draws with thread. Her stitchery is employed as a graphic mark which is an approach you do not see often. In all her pieces …
Stitches: This crazy quilt detail is made up by varying the length of the arms on Palestrina stitch. I added a seed bead at the end of each bar. Thread: DMC perle thread #5. Placement and Foundation Fabric: This seam is between piece 4 and piece 2 on the diagram I used …
This is a line of closed buttonhole stitch Thread: A hand dyed wool Fabric: This section of the sampler is worked on tea towel linen which is not quite an even weave. Dyes: Procion cold water dyes for the wool Size: The band sampler is 15 cm (6 inches) wide …
With the fourth block (placed on this grid ) documented I am now up to the fifth which is another that is to be found in the I dropped the Button Box gallery. I hope people will enjoy seeing it again in more detail. Fabric content: How I managed a small block …
This line of stitching is a band of Open Chain stitch Thread: A hand dyed soft Danish cotton which feels and works up in a similar way to coton a broder and is matt with no sheen. It is approximately the same thickness and weight as perle 8 Fabric: This section of the …
Detail 27 is a button cluster made up of vantage buttons. Placement and Foundation Fabric: The cluster is situated on piece 5 in the diagram published here when I introduced block 4 In the same article I also talked about the foundation fabrics I used. What is the back story? …
This is a line of feathered chain stitch Thread: Hand dyed lampshade fringing which is very similar to Bunka thread. Lampshade fringing is made is such away that once it starts to unravel it is very easy to unpull. I purchased the lampshade fringing and unpicked it to get the thread, then dyed it. …
