I’ve fallen hopelessly behind! Most of my time for posting gets sucked into Instragram. It’s been great fun seeing what other people have been working on and getting a little inspiration too. I have recently finished a couple new embroideries though in between everything. Bee Floral Embroidery All Life Floral Embroidery And a couple closeups: […]
Here is another one of the embroidery patterns I created with people new to stumpwork in mind. These little insects are probably the most fun to stitch! For this project, I took the help of Trish Burr’s book, Color Confidence in embroidery, which is a really great resource. I’ll say more about it later because
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I’ve just finished a fun crewel project I adapted from an earlier design. I love the bright colors on the little bird, and the way the wing turned out. I have another couple of crewel projects I want to do before I turn to do some stumpwork projects. I’ve promised to make the dragonfly project
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I can’t help it, the wool is beautiful to feel and see. My “new” book came in the mail this week: It’s 50 years old, but it’s easily the best book on crewel embroidery that I have seen so far. It’s not a pattern book and only some of the pictures are color. But it
