Hey everybody! I hope the days are brightening for you. Here spring is working its magic once again bringing us spring flowers and more sunshine. It’s a delight to hear the birds singing and see the frogs splashing about. These days inspired a project I did a couple years ago. (My how time flies!) The […]
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Summer Stitch School returns! There will be 8 lessons for the next 8 weeks. I’m aiming for Mondays as lesson days. I’ll do my best not to drift to Tuesdays. Each will feature a different stitch. These will be new stitches that I haven’t written about in previous schools and tutorials or my embroidery books
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I really do love biscornu. I have made a pile of them over the years. Not nearly enough, I know. I like the look and feel of them. They are colorful little pillows, perfect to hold in your hand. And they are compact art projects you can hold and interact with. And I can’t help
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I love to make bees! They are easy and fun, and I add them to many of my projects. There are really only a few steps so this tutorial is simple and straightforward. First step is the body. I make two straight stitches in the same place. I use 3 strands of 310. It’s hard
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I’m back from my summer away and getting back in the rhythm and catching up with everything. I spent several weeks in beautiful Utah taking in the mountain scenery. So inspiring! Some exciting news too! I have a deal to write an embroidery book!! But — it will be in French!! I cannot read a
These little nests are so fun and easy to make, and I got a few questions about them, so I thought I would make a little how-to explaining how I do them. The eggs are made with polymer clay, in this case, I use Fimo. I roll up a bunch at once, often of different
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I think the last time I did one of these way back in 2009, and I didn’t complete it. And that’s a real shame, because after making this new one, I realize how much I love doing this sort of stitching. The great thing about this type of embroidery is what you can learn along
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Love! One of my favorite themes I thought it was perfect for the beginning of spring, and for a little April project. I kept a simple and uncluttered design for this in order to keep attention on the sentiment. I love these soft colors, and it suited the them so nicely. I’ll be sending this
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I’ve been continuing my embroidery journal projects. I was a little slow getting going with February, in fact it was almost over! But I’m glad I made an effort and got it done. Doing these is a good habit for me. I get to play around with different ideas inspired by what’s happening around me.
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Long and short stitch. This stitch I avoided for quite awhile when I was learning to embroider. I thought it was too slow and didn’t understand how to handle it so it looked reasonable. There was a period I didn’t even like how it looked. I just didn’t want to do it. But somewhere my
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