I finished up the last in the series of Nutcracker ornaments this weekend. It seemed easier to do the ornament-making steps all at once when I had the materials and tools out. So here they are!Clara The Toymaker And the nutcracker himself The whole set in a photo together! I have to say these were […]
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Hi, all. I am working through the set of Nutcracker ornaments, and I thought it might be a good chance to write up how I make them. This kind of ornament makes a nice finish perfect for hanging on the tree or around the home. I’m putting a “glue warning” on this project for those
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Welcome to another lesson from Fall Stitch School with The Floss Box. This week I’m going to look at seeding stitches. And I don’t mean “seed stitches”, well I do, but I mean more generally stitches that can be sprinkled about in a regular or irregular pattern in crewel embroidery. These are filling stitches that
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I managed to stitch 1 of 5 Nutcracker ornaments. I am hoping to do all them. This one went pretty quickly for me. I started with The Mouse King because he is the meanest of the lot and maybe that makes him the most fun! 😉 I’ve already started the next one in the series.
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Yesterday I put in the final stitches! I took a few closeups too you can enjoy. I’m pretty happy with this project. It was a good challenge for me. The squirrel was a bit tricky to stitch in place, but I made it work. The tail is made out of turkey knots that I trimmed
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One of the fun things about stumpwork is all the little pieces you make and attach. They are a lot of work sometimes and sometimes are a bit fussy to work with, and above all demand patience. But the result is quite often worth the trouble which is why I do this type of needle
This stitch is called by everyone Jacobean Couching, but everyone also seems to have another name for it, like Laid Filling or Trellis Stitch. This stitch is one of the classic crewel embroidery stitches. It creates a nice patterned filling stitch and is often used in stitching larger areas. There are three steps to this
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Hi, all. I found a little embroidery exercise in an embroidery book I picked up at a flea market. I thought it was worth sharing, and maybe some of you might like to try it. First though, I have to say that to allow yourself to do this, you have to turn off your inner
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Welcome to another week of Fall Stitch School. This week, we’re studying long and short stitch. This stitch is troublesome for many embroiderers, but I’m hopefully going to show you that it is not any harder than any other stitch and it can be quite fun to fill an area in. Long and short is
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It’s finally here! For this season’s stitch school I am trying something a little different, which will be to focus on a type of stitching instead of just a bunch of more or less random stitches. This is still all about the stitches, of course, but I will pick stitches traditionally used for crewel embroidery.
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