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Category Archives: embroidery
Displaying embroidery in a hoop
Q: Why shouldn’t I just take a pair of scissors and hack off all the excess fabric that sticks out behind my wooden embroidery hoop? A: 1) Because you’ve gone to all this trouble to stitch something nice, it’s a shame to rush through the finishing like a knucklehead. 2) Because you are not a knucklehead. Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, fabric, Hell2Breakfast, sewing, thread
Tagged craft, Embroidery, embroidery display, embroidery finishing, Embroidery hoop, hoop display, Needlework, Running stitch
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Blackwork on Card
I have just used this technique to decorate the cover of a Moleskine cahier notebook, as a participant in The Sketchbook Project 2011. My theme is “nightmare”, and I wanted the cover of the sketchbook to have an understated yet heavy, oppressed feel to it.
I have received so many compliments on pictures of the finished back cover that I thought I’d share the technique with everyone. Hope you find it useful! Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, paper
Tagged blackwork, craft, Moleskine, nightmare, Paper, the sketchbook project 2011
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Make a Spool Bird
The Project: There is a very cute bird softie project over on Spool Sewing that I fell in love with the instant I saw it. Right away I made a trial bird, in pink and yellow— a week later she … Continue reading
Join a movie-themed embroidery swap: the Phat Quarter
The Project I have ❤‘d Mr X Stitch loooongtime, but didn’t have the nerve to join one of their FFF of F (Fifth Friday Festival of Fabulousness) swaps until now. The theme this time is Movies…something I have not had … Continue reading
Posted in embroidery, fabric, Recycle That S#!T..., thread
Tagged movies, mr x stitch, phat quarter, pussycat, swap
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