Take a Stitch Tuesday Week 9 Basic TAST The challenge this week, is to experiment with Buttonhole Wheel which is a fun and easy stitch. I often use these to form small floral sprays making them useful stitches for crazy quilting and surface embroidery, but you can also use them …
This week in a short video, I am offering my viewers a few tips on thread choice and the importance of varying your threads in your design. The other topic I touch on is responding to your fabric with stitches. Also as a quick reminder next week I’m teaching at …
I have started to share my stitching process on You Tube. I am thinking in terms of making slower chatty videos where I imagine people will be stitching a little with half an eye on what I am doing. I know I do a lot of stitching in front of …
Week 8 Basic TAST This week the challenge is Buttonhole stitch – or blanket stitch, as many people call it. This stitch is actually the foundation for a whole family of stitches. People classify embroidery stitches in different ways. I like to classify stitch families according to the hand movement …
For week 7, this week’s basic stitch is very simple and very useful. And I am encouraging people to learn and use Seed stitch also known as seed filling. It is very quick and easy. So it’s ideal to incorporate in modern embroidery. I think people will enjoy it. Take …
The stitch for Basic TAST week 6 is Fly Stitch. I made the sample above using 5 layers of chiffon and netting stitched over with mainly Fly Stitch. Much of the grass/reeds areas are also fly stitch. By mixing the thickness and type of threads I gave it more visual …
When you are next wanting some quiet time, skip the doom scrolling on social media and instead visit the Goldsmiths Textile Collection & Constance Howard Gallery website hosted by Goldsmiths College, University of London. The collection was founded by Constance Howard and Audrey Walker in the 1980’s. It is still …
