I worked on my embroidery journal project over the weekend. I chose only motifs that I felt like stitching. This piece I call Spring, the promise and the beauty. The birds nest represents the promise, and the daffodil the beauty. I didn’t feel motivated to put a lot of extra decoration on this project. My […]
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Hi all, Finally a finished project to show off! The inspiration for this one came from my own yard. We have a pond here and in the summer there are plenty of little flowers and bugs that live around it. A quick run down of the technical details! I have stitched the water with 4
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I admit that lately my mental energy for certain things, including blog writing, has been at a low. So low I had to think about if I even wanted to continue. I was talking to my mother about it yesterday. She gave blogging a try. She managed a grand total of 3 posts before she
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I’ve started a new project this week! I have been thinking about doing something with a dragonfly for awhile, and now I have come up with a design that I liked. I am deliberately going a little slow. I want to think a little before I just start throwing stitches down. Texture and color are
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Yesterday you got a sneak peak with my tutorial. Today you get the finish! First a few details about the project. I stitched this on plain woven cotton. I used Appleton crewel wools throughout. Lots of long and short, but a few other stitches are in there too, stem stitch, split stitch, french knots, satin
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This week I have been working on my embroidery journal project, and I thought I would take the chance to show a useful embroidery technique. Making slips has been around for centuries. It was a convenient way to make an embroidery that could be moved from one object to another when the background fabric got
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I have to admit that this project tested me. I wasn’t at all happy with it as I went along. I was determined that it would be finished though. Hard to say what exactly bother me so much. I can tell you though that I thought the bee body looked very odd when it was
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Last week I got some new embroidery books! I love getting them. There is always much to learn and see in them. One of them is the new RSN Stumpwork book. It isn’t a pattern book, but rather a book of stitches and techniques. The designs shown in the book are clean and more modern
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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
