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Tuttoricamo.com is an Italian which houses quite a bit of information on traditional styles of Italian embroidery including Assisi, Deruta, Perugian, Sicilian Drawn Thread and Palestrina Embroidery. The site is in Italian and English. The site houses historical articles, instructional material on how the various types of embroidery are done …

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The seam embellishment for day 22 in this series is worked over a band of lace. I first worked two rows of Chevron stitch in a thread which is actually hand dyed crochet cotton but is the same weight as DMC Pearl 5. I then worked straight stitches at the …

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Helen Stevens is a master with a needle. If you have not seen her books just have a look at ther work in her gallery. I am sure you will agree with me At the moment she has a free master class the “Champagne Rose” which key points illustrated with …

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One of the amazing things about this series of post is that it has provoked so many interpretations and the daily dose of variety constantly makes it interesting. I notice that often it is the simple stitch combinations that produce the most interesting responses. Todays seam embellishment detail is extremely …

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Susan of Plays with needles asked for a detail of the silk ribbon spray on the 8 inch crazy block I posted yesterday. So here it is. The flowers are worked in 7 mm Japanese Ribbon stitch. I don’t have directions to work this stitch online – it is on …

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Today is a very simple detail as it is Open cretan stitch simply laced with a fine cord. If you want to see the block the it came from it is one of the 8 inch crazy blocks Detail 17 and 18 are from the same block too so you …

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This was quite a cheap and nasty modern nylon lace which I interspaced novelty beads and half buttonhole wheels. It is quite a narrow lace so to add more visual weight to it I added straight stitches at the base and topped them off with French knots Scooting around the …