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I learned to embroider when I was a kid, when everyone was really into cross stitch (remember the '80s?). Eventually, I migrated to surface embroidery, teaching myself with whatever I could get my hands on...read more

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Tutorials for Hand Embroidered Leaves & Flowers

 

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Do you want to add more variety to your hand embroidery projects by stitching different types of leaves or flowers?

After all, when you look at flowers and foliage in their natural setting, they’re rarely exactly the same!

Since flowers and leaves are probably the most common motif in hand embroidery, it’s good to have a whole arsenal of stitching techniques on hand for embroidering them.

Here are sixteen different ways you can embroider leaves and flower petals.

Stitches for Flowers and Leaves
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Silk Gimp – Winners Announced! & a Great Big Thank You!

 

Good Morning! And a Happy Saturday to You!

When I was growing up, Saturdays were the Best Day of the Week. They always tingled with a Holiday Mood, even though the inevitable chore list was published that day. My dad used to sing a song to us – a rather tuneless song, if I recall – that went something along these lines:

Saturday’s a holiday, for the week is ended.
Saturday’s a holiday, we can work and play.
Bright sunny day!
We tramp the fields and meadows,
Skies so blue, softest hue,
and dream along the way…

Well, just be grateful you can’t hear me singing along while I type! I never actually knew if that was a real song, or if he just made it up.

I still have that Saturday-Holiday-Mood feeling now and then – and especially this morning because I get to announce two winners of these Silk Gimp Thread Assortment packs!

Silk Gimp Green Assortment
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Mission Rose Update!

 

It’s been a while since I’ve written about my Mission Rose goldwork project, for two reasons, which I’ll share below.

But since I’ve received a lot of inquiries about it in the last several weeks, I thought I’d give you a quick update.

The project was put away for a bit while I was working on other things. For goldwork projects that are incomplete, I always cover them up with a cloth and put them somewhere out of the light.

And of course, once a project is put away, it’s less likely I’ll get anything done on it until I have real time to devote to it again. So that’s one reason the work stalled on the project.

Mission Rose Project Update
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Stitch Fun! Itty Bitty Buttonhole Stitch Leaves

 

Since leaves are often featured in hand embroidery projects, I’ve been dedicating a few articles lately to different ways to work hand embroidered leaves, beyond the simple daisy stitch.

It’s always fun to add a little variety to hand embroidery projects by using different stitches for common elements. So far, we’ve looked at leaves embroidered using a combination of twisted chain and fly stitch, and leaves embroidered with cretan stitch.

how to embroidery buttonhole stitch leaves
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