August 18, 2012
RSN Stitch Guide on Whitework – Winner Announced!
Who won the RSN Essential Stitch Guide for Whitework?! Well, well, well… that’s what we’re here to find out!
August 17, 2012
Stitch Printable: Cast-On and Double Cast-On Stitch!
I’ve slipped another Stitch Printable into my practically-empty little shop here on Needle ‘n Thread, in case you’re looking for a couple new stitches to learn and something fun to create over the weekend!
Stitch Printables: Cast-On Stitch and Double Cast-On Stitch covers how to make the cast-on and double cast-on stitches and four flowers using them. The cast-on and the double cast-on stitch are both dimensional embroidery stitches, used often in Brazilian embroidery and in stumpwork.
I thought I’d show you what’s in the Printable, to try to entice you. Heh heh.
August 16, 2012
Goldwork & Silk Embroidery: Some Comparisons and Conclusions
Today, I’d like to share with you some photos of a beautiful little piece of goldwork and silk embroidery, and perhaps meander through some musings about its background and make some comparisons with another piece of embroidery.
This is a piece of embroidery – one of four – that was sent to me by Larissa (thank you, Larissa!), a friend in Russia. If you’ve been reading Needle ‘n Thread for a while, you might remember Larissa. She’s the embroiderer behind this gorgeous goldwork and pearl embroidered frame and this bead and goldwork frame. Both pieces within both featured frames, by the way, are also embroidered – worked in tiny tent stitch!
August 15, 2012
Blocking and Stitching Little
Happy Wednesday, Everyone! It’s a glorious day here in Kansas – birds singing, sun shining, a light breeze blowing.
It makes me want to write about something sunshiny. And so, I’ll write about my sheep.
August 14, 2012
Two New Projects Underway
It’s been a while since I’ve taken you along on a Project Journey, hasn’t it? Well, since the Medallion, anyway!
I’m setting off now on two stitching journeys simultaneously, each one vastly different from the other. One project, you see, is being prepared as a possible teaching project. This means it can’t be published in full. The other is for collaboration on a book. And this means it can’t be published in full. And now you are privy to my sad blogging dilemma! But we’ll work through the dilemma, and hopefully we’ll find an acceptable middle way. Throughout both journeys, I’ll be sneaking you updates and even little embroidery tips that stem from the projects.
The first thing I did after working out the two designs was work up a color palette and think about threads.
August 13, 2012
Embroidery Book Give-Away! RSN Whitework Stitch Guide
Today, because it’s Monday and it’s always good to start the week on an Up Note, I’m going to give away an embroidery book!
Initially, I was going to give away two embroidery books today. But I have all kinds of Monday Morning Excuses why I changed my mind. The dominating reason, though, is that the books are completely unrelated (except in their use of needle and thread), and it occurred to me that, while you might really want one of them, you might not want the other. And what if you won the one you didn’t want??! Oh gosh! That would be the pits!!!
So I decided to do them separately. Today’s give-away:
August 11, 2012
Interlaced Herringbone – Printable Tutorial Available!
I admit I went way overboard on this one! What I intended to be a quick, basic tutorial turned into something so thorough that by the time you finish going through it, you will be a master of the Interlaced Herringbone! You’ll be able to do it in your sleep…
