Why increase your stitch vocab published by C&T

With my next book Creative Stitches for Contemporary Embroidery, Volume 2 coming out soon my publishers C&T asked me to write an article for their blog. I tackled the subject of why you would want to add more stitches to your repertoire – and came up with some solid reasons. …

Have a Cuppa 4

Have a Cuppa 4, my video this week contains some exciting news about my next book and I show people how to work a bullion knot. I know many people have problems with this stitch, so I decided to share my tips on how to do them. Of course I …

Fresh off the hoop

Bold colours! I often stitch up a small area in a colour scheme that I think might be interesting. This is my latest and since it is fresh off the hoop, I thought I would share it. At first I thought this colour scheme was a little too bold to …

How I designed and stitched this encrusted highly textured embroidery sampler

As you can see it is this encrusted highly textured sampler is fresh off the hoop and still to be blocked. Today I plan to share how I designed and stitched this sampler. This bone sampler is both surface embroidery, combined with textured stitches and beadwork. It is a contemporary …