Welcome to the last installment of Garden Swirl, wherein we mount the finished embroidery project in the lid of the …| NeedlenThread.com
If you’ve ever browsed through a stitch dictionary, you’ve probably noticed that embroidery stitches are often arranged according to the …| NeedlenThread.com
It seems as if Tuesday is becoming my new Monday, thanks to what I like to call The Upheavals of …| NeedlenThread.com
Lately, I’ve been sharing progress and thought processes, designing process, and so forth on this embroidered maniturgium that I wrote …| NeedlenThread.com
Good morning and welcome to Tuesday in Kansas - a little later start to the week than intended, but here we are. Today, we're going to move forward on Garden Swirl, our current stitch-along on Needle 'n Thread. We're almost finished with the embroidery. It's a little project and it goes pretty q| NeedlenThread.com
Needle weaving in hand embroidery involves all kinds of stitches. Woven picot, woven wheel, various interlaced stitches - these are both examples of stitches that involve "needle weaving." In drawn thread and whitework embroidery, needle weaving is used to create decorative woven bars in drawn threa| NeedlenThread.com
Today is a Milestone Day here in the studio! After I-Don’t-Know-How-Many-Years (ok, I do – it’s been 9 years ago …| NeedlenThread.com
Happy Monday! Today, we’re going to move right along on Garden Swirl, by stitching a few more flowers on the …| NeedlenThread.com
I’m having one of Those Weeks. Umpteen attention-beggars. A gazillion interruptions. Unprioritized Priorities taking over every task list. And the …| NeedlenThread.com
Good morning, folks! Today, we’re going to add the leaves to the Garden Swirl project. If you’re just joining in …| NeedlenThread.com
To keep things organized and easy for you to find, here’s the Garden Swirl Project Index for the current stitch-along …| NeedlenThread.com
Welcome to part 2 of the stitch-along for Garden Swirl. If you're just joining in, you'll find part 1 - which covers materials, tools, and the design - here. Next Monday, I'll be creating a Project Index for Garden Swirl, which will be available under "Tips & Techniques" in the main menu her| NeedlenThread.com
The time has come at long last to launch the stitch-along for Garden Swirl! The kits for this stitch-along project will launch this Friday, July 18, at 10:00 AM Central Time (I'm in Kansas - you'll need to figure out the time based on your own location). If you'd like a kit, then, please set| NeedlenThread.com
We've taken a couple more tiny steps in expanding our curated needlework supplies - especially with some new embroidery thread collections and a new hoop. I call these supplies "curated" because they're the tools and threads that I specially select, that I think are worthwhile to have available,| NeedlenThread.com
Summer is official. It's never really official until I take my one week off a year, which always falls at the very end of June because it hinges on other people's schedules. I took the week. And I'm back. So now I feel like it's well and truly Official Summer here in the studio! These are th| NeedlenThread.com
A few weeks ago I put together some photos for the EGA (Embroiderers' Guild of America), that they will use on their website and marketing for an episode of their "Virtual Lecture" series. Are you familiar with the EGA's virtual lecture series? The Embroiderers' Guild of America hosts a monthly| NeedlenThread.com
Because it's Friday (which has nothing to do with anything), but really because I'm leaving this weekend for a week, I'd like to introduce you officially to Garden Swirl, the Stitch Snippet stitch-along that will be developing here on Needle 'n Thread over the next couple months. If you are new| NeedlenThread.com
It's inevitable. At some point in your embroidery journey - maybe at many points, if you're anything like me - you're going to make less-than-ideal choices now and then when it comes to embroidery stitches. Sometimes, stitches you'd think would work in certain circumstances end up being Just| NeedlenThread.com
Welcome to Tuesday! And to a Very Quiet Week at Needle 'n Thread. Anna, you see, is gone for the week. And while neither of us may be the Most Talkative People in the World while we are working, it's strange to be working alone again, in silence. It's funny, though - I'm making it through my| NeedlenThread.com
Well, here at the studio in Kansas, summer has officially begun - with a crazy-cold and rainy weekend. I even had the heat on yesterday! Not summer-summer, mind you, as in the season, which commences on the summer solstice some time around the third week of June. I mean the summer that (since my| NeedlenThread.com
Oh, golly! I love deadlines. Here in the studio, we've been working on the appliqué lettering project that we talked about here. I really want to thank the Collective Mind of Needle 'n Thread - that's all of you - for your input and advice on the appliqué process for these letters. We're| NeedlenThread.com
Whew! It was a wild and wooly weekend out here in Kansas, thanks to some sweeping storm fronts and the anticipation and anxiety they bring with them. It's not that I don't like a good thunderstorm, but destructive weather is always worrisome in case it hits, and heart-wrenching when it does hit.| NeedlenThread.com
Today, I'm presenting you with a different kind of book review. A Kaleidoscope of Goldwork Butterflies is a project and technique book published by Alison Cole last year. It's a beautiful book, with beautiful projects in it. At the same time, it's a special book. It was published and is bein| NeedlenThread.com
Good morning! I've got a lot to chat with you about in the coming days, as we pull together the projects that we're working on here in the studio. My goal this week is to set up the "final" version of a project sample I'll be stitching over the next couple weeks. It's a small, spring-bright,| NeedlenThread.com
If you're an inveterate arts & crafts sort of person, then perhaps you have a Bucket List of projects that you dream about getting to some day. I do. I have a Project Bucket List. They're not all embroidery projects, but a whole lot of 'em are! But see, my Project Bucket List has one Might| NeedlenThread.com
Swedish weaving - or "huck embroidery" or "Swedish darning" - is enjoying a comeback lately, so we're going to talk about it today! While the origins of Swedish weaving are largely uncertain, extant examples date as far back as the 1600's. It's not even certain that the origins are necessarily S| NeedlenThread.com
Before we explore wool threads any further - comparing different types and discussing their make-up, pros and cons, and so forth - I want to do a little house cleaning so that these articles are easier for you and other visitors to find on Needle 'n Thread. To that end, here's an article index of| NeedlenThread.com
Today, we're going to get going on the embroidery for Purple Posy. We'll be embroidering the decorative top and base of the tape measure cover. If you are just joining in, we started this project last week and you can find the first installment here. If you would like a materials kit, we stil| NeedlenThread.com
Tips & Techniques A list of all kinds of hand embroidery tutorials, tips, and techniques, including beginner tips for embroidery, tips on transferring embroidery patterns and designs, working with specific embroidery threads, tips on goldwork, on silk shading, on individual embroidery stitches.| NeedlenThread.com
