Book Review - The Maison Sajou Sewing Book by Lucinda Ganderton Published by Ivy Press ISBN 978-1-78240-085-1 Hey guys, I have my thoughts on another stitchery book published by Ivy Press to share with you today. If you have been reading my blog, you will have caught two lovely books from Ivy Press so far, with the Sew Quick, Sew Cute By Fiona…
Midweek already, would you believe it? I've not got a card for you today but I have a little bit of my amateur embroidery play :) This piece takes some influence from the Sea and the eyelet stitching uses a technique from an article by Jean Draper in Oct/Nov Stitch Magazine. Have a lovely rock pool sort of a day. Kim
Something a little different for today, not a card but a picture made from printable fabric. I had great fun designing the background in Photoshop Elements and then printing it out on printable linen from Craft Computer Paper. I've used hand embroidery, machine embroidery and quilting techniques to finish this picture. The fabric for the Yo Yo flowers and fence were also…
Ahhh blog hops, they are great fun and yesterday's Whiff of Joy blog hop and party was fab. Well done to those who won prizes over at the Papercraft Planet chat and if you visit Katharina's blog today you will find out who has won the blog hop prize. Thank you all who left lovely comments and wasn't there such beautiful makes…
Not a card but some machine embroidery today. Creative Machine embroidery courses are like gold dust in the UK at the moment and last week I was very lucky to be at Hampton Court, no less, with some lovely people sharing a little introduction to the subject. The course was run by the Embroiderers' Guild and taught by the amazing Pam Watts.…
In February I dyed some fabric and threads all the colours of the rainbow in my creative embroidery course. Well, I've used some of the fabric to make my first piece of creative embroidery that I've taken from first designs principles through to a finished product - hurrah! And OK, so a four-year-old child could probably do a better job, but I…
Have you ever dyed threads? I've dyed some clothes in the washing machine before and once dyed a bed sheet for a fancy dress costume where my OH was going to a party in traditional Arabian costume, but never threads for embroidery. After a delay of a week, due to the snow, we managed to get some dying done in my creative…
I've never tried free machine embroidery before, not a whole project – I've played around with stitching but never actually made something. Well, that is until now. The project came from Stitch Magazine issue 49 and was written by Tracy Curtis – the instructions were really easy to follow and inspired me to give it a go. So here is my first…
I had the urge to do some sewing – a touch of embroidery and this week Papertake Weekly has a stitching theme – real or faux. So here is a little embroidery strawberry for you – not that I am trying to hold onto summer or anything. Materials: Paper - made by me Card - white cardstock Other - embroidery threads; cotton…