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July 8, 2024

Figure Embroidery Close-Ups: the Mind Boggles

 

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Good morning and Happy Monday! I’m so glad to be back from a long holiday weekend, and I hope you are, too!

Summer’s really trucking along! I arrived back home in Kansas early last week after being away for about 9 days. You couldn’t tell I was gone, could you? I planned ahead pretty well this year! Of course, I had my trusty-rusty phone with me to keep up as best as I could while away from home.

When I got home, though, the middle of the week involved playing the inevitable Catch-Up Game, followed by the holiday with some weekend events to navigate – all of which involved falling behind a bit. But now…. now!! We’re back to the Bliss of Routine and Reality! There is much good to be said for Routine!

As the Routine settles back to normal here at the studio, you can expect the following Grand Events this week:

Today, we’re going to look at some figure embroidery up close; Wednesday, we’ll have a little Tool Talk and compare a couple needles that may be of interest, especially for an upcoming tutorial; and Friday, we will finish Cornflowers. Yay!

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July 3, 2024

Stitch Tutorial: Easy Scalloped Beaded Edge

 

Why, welcome to Wednesday! We’re on the approach to a holiday weekend here in the States. Tomorrow’s Independence Day, and for many, it’s the opportunity to take a long weekend and do summery things.

Perhaps you’ll be indulging in some stitching this weekend, too, and if so, here’s a little Stitch Fun tutorial that you might enjoy trying out.

This is a simple approach to making a very effective and really kind of cute scalloped, beaded edge. It’s fun, easy, and quick!

Easy Scalloped Beaded Edge tutorial
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July 1, 2024

Cornflowers Stitch-Along 4: All the Flowers

 

Hello and Welome to July! Golly, this year is going fast.

It is time to move on to the colorful and exciting part of our current stitch-along here on Needle ‘n Thread! Today, we’ll be addressing the cornflowers. This is a photo-heavy article, but please read the instructions as well!

If you are just joining in on this Stitch-Along, you can find all the previous articles for this project listed here, in the Cornflowers Scissor Envelope Project Index.

You can find the materials kit for this project available here, if you would like to have all the materials on hand that I used to create the scissor envelope shown in these lessons.

If you are a member of the Needle ‘n Thread community here on Patreon, you have already received this installment of Cornflowers as a handy PDF for downloading and printing. It was posted this past weekend on Patreon, so if you haven’t picked it up yet, hop on over and pick it up!

Cornflowers Embroidery Project - Stitch Along
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June 28, 2024

Stitch Tip: More Explorations of Extra-Wide Cast-on Stitch

 

Last week, we explored an extra-wide cast-on embroidery stitch, using two needles to help form wide loops for the cast-on stitch.

Today, we’re going to look at a second approach to the same concept.

Before we start, if you’re not familiar with cast-on stitch, you might want to watch the video tutorial for cast-on stitch here, and you might check out the other instructional resources listed at the beginning of last week’s article. it helps to have a good idea about how the basic stitch is formed before getting entangled in adventurous stitch play!

Extra-wide cast-on stitches embroidery stitch
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June 26, 2024

Cornflowers Stitch-Along 3: All the Leaves

 

Last week, we embroidered all the stems on the Cornflowers project, which is our current stitch-along project on Needle ‘n Thread.

Today, we’re going to embroider all the leaves!

If you’re just joining in on this Stitch Snippet stitch-along for Cornflowers: a Scissor Envelope, you can catch up on previous installments in the stitch-along and pick up tips and techniques that we’ve already covered, by visiting the Cornflowers Project Index here.

If you would like to make your own Cornflowers Scissor Case, you’ll find the materials kit for this project available here.

If you’re a member of the Needle ‘n Thread community on Patreon, I posted Part 3: All the Leaves in a downloadable PDF format for you yesterday, so feel free to pick up that download! Part 4 will be released this Friday afternoon on Patreon, so you can get a head start on the flowers over the weekend.

And now, let us tackle the graceful leaves on our cornflowers!

Cornflowers embroidery - scissor case - stitch along
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June 21, 2024

Stitch Tip: Exploring Extra-Wide Cast-on Stitches

 

I’ve been exploring extra-wide cast-on stitches.

Are you familiar with the cast-on stitch? it’s a lovely and versatile stitch, perfect for adding texture and dimension to embroidery. In the scheme of dimensional, textured stitches, it’s fairly simple to work, too.

If you aren’t familiar with the stitch, you can find a video tutorial for cast-on stitch here, a tutorial for a simple cast-on stitch flower here, a tutorial for a cast-on stitch rose here, and even a tutorial for a beaded cast-on stitch here. Lots of opportunities for learning the cast-on stitch!

And now, we’re going to look at the extra-wide cast-on stitch, and we’re going to look at it from two different approaches, in two installments. This is the first installment. Next week, we’ll explore a little more.

Extra-Wide Cast-on Embroidery Stitch
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