October 5, 2013
Free Hand Embroidery Pattern: Funburst!
Here we are – Saturday again. The week does fly, doesn’t it?
Today, it’s a free hand embroidery pattern for you – I’m calling it Funburst!
October 4, 2013
Stitch Fun: Shisha Stitch Tutorial
Shisha – embroidery with mirrors – can be worked different ways.
The most common shisha stitch found in most stitch dictionaries is a combination buttonhole and chain stitch worked over a grid of holding threads that anchor the small mirrors to fabric. Today, we’re going to look at the basic stitch, and then later on, we’ll look at some variations.
October 3, 2013
Tutorials for Hand Embroidered Leaves & Flowers
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.
October 2, 2013
Making Merry with Mirrors – Shisha Embroidery
I’ve doodled about with shisha embroidery before. I love it, especially the stitches involved and the decorative possibilities with those stitches.
October 1, 2013
Rose Leaf Stitch – Not a Leaf, But a Bud
Yesterday, we looked at this nifty way to hand embroider a shaded leaf, using the rose leaf stitch.
Today, I want to show you a fun variation – a little bud, using the same stitch.
September 30, 2013
Stitch Fun: Rose Leaf Stitch
Here’s one more leaf-stitching technique to add to repertoire of hand embroidery stitches for creating various types of leaves.
So far in this mini collection that parts of the Stitch Fun series, we’ve looked at fly stitch leaves, cretan stitch leaves, tiny buttonhole stitch leaves, and today, we’re looking at the rose leaf stitch.
September 28, 2013
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, 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!
