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Category Archives: Design sites
Drawn thread embroidery
Today I found you a (free!) beautiful 19 page tutorial on drawn thread work from the Heritage Shoppe. This shows you, in detail with many photos, how to do the work in this picture. It’s a type of embroidery where … Continue reading
Talliaferro Designs
I am very very excited to announce that I found a brand new line of crewel embroidery designs by Anna Garris Goiser from Virginia (USA)! So brand new that the chartpacks are in fact being written right now. The Royal … Continue reading
Hardanger
This is a type of Norwegian embroidery, popular also in the northern midwest USA. It’s very geometric with lots of square eyelets and lacy fillings. Nordic Needle’s specialty is hardanger, and they provide an extensive overview of the topic, lots … Continue reading
Rowandean cat
Here is yet another kit I’m so very close to finishing. It’s a small kit from Rowandean Embroidery, which is a British company with a huge variety of kits. This design is about 3 inches by 4 inches. I don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Design sites, My work, Surface embroidery
Tagged embroidery, kits, Rowandean, surface embroidery
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Swedish weaving/huck embroidery
I’ll be showing this form of embroidery in two very different materials: one is a sampler I stitched with embroidery floss on huck cloth/popcorn fabric, and one is an afghan my grandmother stitched in yarn on monk’s cloth. For each … Continue reading
Posted in Design sites, Grandma, My work, Swedish weaving/huck embroidery
Tagged embroidery, huck embroidery, kits, swedish weaving
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Crewel embroidery: Custom House of Needlearts
Before I go on to the rest of the post: OMG SHARON B AT PINTANGLE LINKED ME!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!! ANYWAY, the photos below are of my Mini Bellpull Kit #46 from Custom House of Needle Arts, the original range. … Continue reading
Posted in Crewel, Design sites, My work
Tagged crewel, Custom House, Custom House of Needle Arts, embroidery, Jacobean, kits
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Goldwork
Goldwork is usually pricey, and I personally don’t like a lot of the goldwork designs I’ve seen. For me, they overfocus on the gold. I prefer goldwork pieces that incorporate gold as a part of the design. That said, I’d … Continue reading
Posted in Design sites, Goldwork, My work
Tagged embroidery, goldwork, kits, Mary Jane Collection, Rajmahal
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Brazilian embroidery
This is fun stuff – shiny (rayon) threads and 3D flowers. I’ve linked all the pictures to the kits available online. Here’s an example I stitched (it’s about 4 inches total): It’s a tiny kit from a site (JDR Brazilian … Continue reading
Stitch dictionaries!
I’m pretty excited – I discovered an amazing treasure: the Henry Art Gallery Stitch Identification Guide at http://dig.henryart.org/embroidery-stitches/first_level_pages/contents.htm. This resource is maintained by the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington in Seattle, and was created through analyzing “the … Continue reading
Candlewicking difficulties
So, I’ve been working on a sculptured stitchery and candlewicking kit Majestic Balloons designed by Roger W. Reinardy, and available from Janlynn. It’s called sculptured stitchery because the design is backstitched over cotton batting to create a 3D effect around … Continue reading
Posted in Candlewicking, Design sites, My work
Tagged candlewicking, embroidery, Janlynn, kits, Roger W. Reinardy, sculptured embroidery
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