I usually steer clear of pep talks and particularly pep talks about being creative. I prefer to get on with it but I tripped over YourCre8tivity.com which is a blog on creativity. Most articles on creativity talk about nurturing your creativity this list talks about 5 Ways to Block Your …
This seam embellishment is a treatment for an unusual triple rick rack I received in a swap. I stitched French knots down the middle in a thread the same weight as DMC pearl 12.On the side of the rick rack I added five detached chain stitches arranged around a bugle …
Many crazy quilters know Sophie Gelfi. I received an email to say that Sophi has a new website that provides tips and tutorials online. If English is your main language you will need to use a translator I used googles translating tool
Today I have a seam embellishment which is a piece of lace that has been beaded between the main motifs.Along the edge I have worked Pekinese stitch in two contrasting threads. The first is DMC pearl 8 which is laced with a metallic braid. In the round up for today …
This featured seam embellishment Is a simple seam treatment that was started with a row of Herringbone which was worked to hold down some atin ribbon. The row was then tied with small crosses worked in contrasting thread. One one side a series of straight stitches were topped off with …
Kim over on String or Nothing has published a good article on blackwork embroidery which includes a round up of resources online
Todays featured seam embellishment was started with a foundation row of buttonhole stitch which was worked in a thread the same weight as DMC pearl 8. On one side I worked a small caston stitch and on the other three Bullion stitches. Both these stitches were worked in a thread …
