I thought people might want to see a floral feature I have used on one of my blocks. It is made up of both textured embroidery and silk ribbon embroidery. The Silk ribbon flowers are created using 7 mm Silk ribbon using Japanese Ribbon stitch. I don’t have directions to …
Todays embroidered seam is a simple arrangement of straight stitch. I used DMC pearl 5 thread. Between the block like shapes I have a small novelty bead. Below these shapes is an arrangement of detached chain stitch and straight stitch topped with a seed bead. The other embroidered seam you …
As you can see todays detail features a piece of tatting which has been used to along a seam. At the top of the tatting there are clusters of three detached chain stitches worked in a thread the same weight as DMC 8. A bead has been stitched to base. …
The Craft Yarn Council of America has published guidelines so that uniform yarn, needle and hooks are labelled in a consistent manner. These standards and guidelines aim to encourage the industry to produce user friendly patterns. The site also houses a useful list of Crochet Abbreviations, a list of Knitting …
The seam embellishment for today is similar to yesterday’s as it is an embellishment for lace that covers a seam. After stitching the lace down I then picked out the design in the lace using back stitch. The thread used is DMC pearl 5. The same thread was used to …
Today I am featuring a simple seam embellishment. As you can see straight stitches have been arranged at along the edge of some lace that covers the seam. In hand dyed thread that is the same weight as DMC pearl 8, I added French knots arranged in a bunch. Two …
There is a particularly interesting discussion going on over at crochetme provoked by an excellent post Take Back The Crochet We need more artists to explore the medium and its potential for expression. We need women and men to use their hooks with pride, and to consider the beauty they …
