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Miserable colours are what inspire me ....and moths....while I will never be a neat embroiderer, I am pleased with the way the colours turne...

Los Angeles-based embroidery artist Michelle Kingdom (previously) expresses unspoken emotions in scenes composed of women surrounded by plants or animals. Kingdom often depicts a solo protagonist, or multiple characters engaging in ritualistic activities. Her imaginative scenarios often blur the role of nature as part of the story, or simply use it as a decorative element. Kingdom uses long stitches of thread in layered tonal colors to create texture and volume. More

Inspiration for picking up a piece of cloth and create texture and depth with a few hand stitches.

Our favorite contemporary embroiderers are those who experiment with color and texture—here are the ones who have caught our eye.

A couple of articles for you to read . Firstly my shop and work was featured on the website mr x stitch. This is a great website if you are into all kinds of exciting contemporary embroidery. It is not just about cross stitch ! Click here to read all about it. The second article is all about creating my blue embroidered beetle on UK handmade. This is a great website showcasing all kinds of designers that are contributing to the surge in handmade items in the UK at the moment. There are galleries of work and a directory if you want to commission a piece of original art. Click here to read this article,( it's a long one!!). I hope you enjoy them and thank you for all the comments and messages you send.

Well now it's back to normal after a jolly Christmas with the boys, but they have both gone back to Berlin where they are forging ahead with their lives with great gusto! Tom my eldest and his lovely girlfriend Marcella dressed up as Joseph and Mary for the Christmas children's service and really were superb at it, so good that one child rushed up to them and exclaimed " I've just been reading about you!" Proud Mother me ... But now it's back to work again with so much to do ... This year will see a big change in the business, hopefully moving up a few notches with the launch of some new kits, both the printed panels and tapestry kits too, based on some designs my mother did 50 years ago, and the long awaited stitch cards! I have had to lose dear Sarah as she has gone to pastures new with her boyfriend to Sussex and so now will be taking on help with admin and manufacturing so I can at last get on with the new designs and building up the business, ready for the Hatch showcase in London arranged by School for Startups the wonderful but demanding course I am on. So this year will be full on! I have had a few birthdays to make things for too ... I am finding it a little of a displacement activity too when I should be doing my accounts but all work no play as they say ... These are little felt embroidered bracelets, quite traditional I think but very satisfying to do. Having just begun teaching at Hoop for the new year too, a six week hand embroidery course which we began today and which will culminate in a sampler which I still have to design! News to come on that ... Ah much to do and post Christmas sit ups only a part of it! Tom and Marcella doing the Nativity so well with Charlotte's donkeys and Biddy suffering Christmas humiliation.

La Plombiére fleurie enfin terminée, Commencé en avril , juste vant que les enfants arrivent à la maison, et mon accident( avec cette foutue armoire) J'ai enfin pu m'assoir sur une chaise dans mon atelier, mais pas n'importe quelle chaise ,,,,, j'ai...

Through densely laid cross-stitches and whorls of thread, Han Cao revitalizes discarded photographs and postcards. Similar to the artist’s previous projects, her latest series New Nostalgia strikes a balance between the original subjects and the fiber-based additions. Sometimes covering faces with sparse dandelion puffs or confetti-like burst, Cao redefines the vintage pieces and explores how narratives linger as she stitches plumes of train steam that trail beyond the initial photograph’s edges. More

Since I last wrote I have been in a very grand funk a lot to do with the fact that Victoria was again in a hard lockdown and it is a very cold winter. Whilst I am regional and am not as hard locked down as Melburnians the simple fact of the matter is that all of my family is in the Melbourne zone so it feels like I am locked down in the same way. I did manage to get my first Covid vaccine shot in the time but have been struggling to get one for my mother who is a category 1 as I need to drive to her place an hour and a half away to take her as she can no longer drive and the availability of appointments was limited . All I can say is that her medical clinic where she has attended for many years and which is the only one around where she lives is not well organised. I was supposed to be teaching at Fibres West next week but due to the Victorian lockdown and the closure of the border by West Australia they had to cancel me to give them a bit of time to make other arrangements for students who were in my fully booked class. I understand the necessity of course, but I miss out on the camaraderie with like minded people and also a big loss of income for me and as a lot of my income has been Covid affected I am struggling. I doubt I will ever see a reimbursement of my airfare I paid to Aeroflot last year for what was to be my first trip to exhibit in Russia. So if you feel inclined to support an artist please visit my shop page and see if there is anything you would like to buy or you could also commission me to make work. I will be running another on-line Traveller's Blanket class starting on the 8th of August (which is a Sunday). And then Gaelle Beech from The Anjelms Project in Perth has very kindly offered for me to exhibit some work in their Community studio in Fremantle and I will also send over some printed fabric for her to sell on my behalf plus I will be developing a few things to introduce you to my work and we may even develop a short workshop to follow via zoom- I am trying to nut it out at present exploring how to use the scrap packs and Khadi from The Stitching Project ( and they have just had delivery of another shipment of khadi for khadi enthusiasts) and that also complements the fabulous clothing that the Anjelms Project do in collaboration with the Stitching Project. I must admit to being a little enthused by the idea of tie-on pockets, inspired by The Pocket ( A Hidden History of Women's Lives) by Barbara Burman and Ariane Fennetaux. Beside it is a tie on pocket I made from a scrap pack of fabric from The Stitching Project. But despite all the kindnesses and some exciting things I am finding it difficult to get enthused- I feel like I am dragging my self kicking and screaming to everything, especially since Fibres West got cancelled- it feels like creative block, it feels like complete adrenalin drain and it feels like I will never have another creative idea in a million years let alone the next 6 months, and I am really sick of my computer screen. I am tired of deleting the spam comments on my blog! I don't feel like writing and I don't feel like walking, both things I have to do and which I force myself to do and my garden needs loads of work (that is another story- I can't operate my whipper snipper at present because I am having some rotator cuff issues- nothing major but the doctor thought it was probably not a good idea to get all macho with a whipper snipper). I have been trying to make my hands dig small amounts of dirt every day ( this often works to get me out of a funk) and if it all comes off I will have enough lettuce to supply all of Morwell, and as it is my lemon tree which is growing through a bucket but is now too big to take out of said bucket ( and has been too big for quite some time) is producing bucket loads of lemons. I would put them out to share but the hooning seems to have escalated to new levels with this lockdown and I would rather not see them used as projectile objects. I do know I have to keep doing work as work often ignites other things and I am trying- who knows maybe tomorrow I will feel more enthused. I did manage to finish my Traveller's Blanket on madder dyed khadi cloth- One World which ended up with 87 worlds. When I started this project late 2018 I had no plan no idea how big it would end up and about half way through the temptation to make it much smaller was very strong but I decided to stick to my guns to make it begger. The background stitching seemed to take forever, even though I worked on this piece steadily. it measures 1 metre by 140 cms (in the past I have made traveller's Blankets this big and I swear they did not take as long as this one) Anyway it is done!Not sure what hand stitching I will start next. So If you would like to make your own Traveller's Blanket, there is plenty of time to enroll. I will be starting the next class on 8 August 2021. I deliver pdf lessons over an 8 week period ( one per fortnight) and i set up a private Facebook group for discussion and question and answer. I also do a fortnightly zoom session for Question and answer. There is some video content but it is a slow process and I use simple stitches to create the effects that I do. The cost of the class is $75.00 AUS

Home from Bombay. Never mind the personal details. Let's just show the STASH: Crochet silk. A suitcase full: And the world's most beautiful antique silk braid: How gorgeous is that? I also made these little baby shoes, to keep myself...

It isn’t too soon to be thinking of embroidery projects for the upcoming holidays! We have a couple of tutorials that will help guide you through the process! Embroidery Pendants with Jessica of Cutesy Crafts Jessica, of Cutesy Crafts, will walk you through creating embroidery pendants in a great video on her site. She also [...]

Whilst showing my friend Kimberley images of the waistcoats below she exclaimed ‘these were worn by men? They’re very girly!’ Indeed the rich embroideries, jewelled and sequinned …

Motif Broderie « Les Baigneuses » par Siwooinparis Brodez pour habiller vos murs et vos êtres chers. Vous trouverez ici « Les baigneuses ». Une œuvre brodée qui vous rappellera le plus agréable et rafraichissant moment de vos vacances. Ce design fera une jolie décoration murale, embellira votre maison. Brodez un ou deux motifs séparément sur vos habits et des accessoires en tissu pour les personnaliser. Elle fera un cadeau fabuleux pour vos proches et vous-même. Ces motifs sont simples à réaliser et toutes les instructions et conseils nécessaires pour débuter sont inclus dans ce document en huit pages. ♥ Vous recevrez : - un livret d'instructions faciles à suivre comprenant un guide illustré de fil et points de base, une liste de fournitures et des suggestions sur des façons de transférer le motif sur le tissu, y compris des conseils pour transférer sur un t-shirt. - Motif de broderie imprimable de deux pages, l'une à l'endroit et l'autre inversée - Motif brodé en photo détaillée - Guide des couleurs et points utilisés (suggestions de couleurs en fils DMC n°25) Assurez-vous d'utiliser le #siwooinparis_EmbroideryPattern sur IG. J'ai hâte de découvrir vos projets. Cette instruction est écrite en deux langues en anglais et en français. Avant l'achat, choisissez la langue qui vous convient. Copyright Siwooinparis © 2018, Camille Yang • LLC. Tous les droits sont réservés. Ce design et toute broderie créée, sont destinés à un usage personnel uniquement et ne peuvent être vendus ou reproduits de quelque manière que ce soit.

Miserable colours are what inspire me ....and moths....while I will never be a neat embroiderer, I am pleased with the way the colours turned out..I dyed lots of squares of linen by dipping them in various pans of dye and overdying to get lovely muddy mothy colors!

Créations broderies au ruban de soie et traditionnelle. Sacs et trousses, boîtes rigides sur Jeffitex, panneaux à suspendre... Le Monde de Gipsy!

I am very honored today to bring you an interview with artist Michelle Kingdom - an incredibly creative embroiderer whose work I have admired for a very long time. There's something so mysterious and lyrical and gorgeous about her work - read on, then, to meet Michelle! They could feel themselves shining in the dark How did you learn to embroider? Are you self-taught? I am a self-taught embroiderer, though I grew up surrounded by crafts and sewing. My background is in fine art with a particular interest in drawing. My loves for fiber and art ran parallel for a long time, but I eventually started to merge the two, essentially drawing with thread. When I first started embroidering I used regular sewing thread and basic hand stitching. Then I referred to an old 1970's "Reader's Digest Guide To Needlework" books, which I still have and use. I adore beautiful technique and fine embroidery, but prefer expressive stitching in my own work. The challenge of making interesting marks, especially curves out of tiny stitches fascinates me. Little by little there was scarcely anything left Is there a particular style of embroidery that appeals to you most? I am a huge fan of all historical and ethnic textiles. The delicacy and understated palette of ancient textile fragments, the vibrancy and graphic design of folk costume, the awkwardly poignant stories in colonial "school girl" needlework, the simplicity and nostalgia of twentieth century house linens, and most of all the dense, rich fantastical worlds stitched in Stuart embroideries are all among my favorites. Do you sketch all your pieces before you embroider them? Do you see your embroidery as sketches or paintings done in thread perhaps? Yes, everything is sketched ahead of time, though I use the drawings as a skeletal framework that will continue to evolve during the stitching process. I almost never have a complete image in my head that must be executed exactly. In fact, I don't think I would bother to stitch at all if that was the case. I enjoy the surprises and detours each embroidery takes along the way, and how the narrative takes on its own life. I do see my work as drawings in thread, mostly because of my process and the similarity to sketching. It is never my intention to make my work imitate drawing or painting though. In progress - Duties of gossamer Is there a reason you embroider your works at such a small scale? I do prefer to work on a small scale for a number of reasons, the most important being my overall vision. The content of my work is an exploration of private, even secret, thoughts, fears, hopes and dreams. This inner world feels best represented in an intimate way. Working on a small scale portrays the fragility and vulnerability I prefer, more like a whisper rather than a shout. I also make small embroideries simply for aesthetic and practical reasons. Thick and knotted with the lives they had lived You are an admirer of literature - do you also keep a journal and write? No, but I do have several sketchbooks for images and literary snippets filled with ideas for future embroideries. Your work is also very poetic to me - do you have a favorite poem or poet? I don't have a favorite poet but I do have favorite writers that influence my work, most notably Virginia Woolf, Carson McCullers, Leo Tolstoy, and Hans Christian Andersen. How cloudy the glass had become If you had to make a choice between expressing your ideas visually or in words, would you be able to? Your pieces have such a lovely relationship to each other, both visually and verbally, in the titles you give them. I appreciate your comment because I find words to be terribly frustrating. It is much easier to express my ideas visually and if I had to choose there would be no contest - visually would win every time. A lot of time is spent on the title because I hope the added layer of words will enrich the image and crystallize my own concept. Sometimes the title does come first, and inspires the visual piece. Overall my work is a collage of ideas, visuals and words, and pieced together they create a larger story. The years fell and grew into vines Aside from embroidery - do you enjoy any other “crafty” pursuits like knitting, sewing, quilting, etc? These days I am more interested in embroidery but in the past I have dabbled in sewing, weaving, knitting and many other forms of craft. Do you exhibit your work, have a shop, or sell your work in any way? My embroideries are exhibited in galleries and I do sell my work. Some already framed pieces are listed at michellekingdom.bigcartel.com but others are available through direct inquiry on my website michellekingdom.com. I also do commission work as well. *** Thank you Michelle, for your thoughtful responses and a glimpse of your creative work. For more on Michelle, don't miss this wonderful post about Michelle on MrXStitch to see more of her process and gorgeous photos of her sketches.

La boutique de l'Exquise Trouvaille sera un lieu de perdition pour les amoureuses de borderie sauvage, le samedi 6 juin après-midi. Nous chatouillerons un coléoptère en raphia, taquinant un goujon écervelé d'une autre main tout en espérant réveiller...

Un étui à lunettes avec un joli nom : "Arbousier". C'est un adorable kit de broderie qui vient de chez "Les trésors de Nath" (clic) . De jolies couleurs et de jolies matières... Merci Nath pour ce joli modèle... Je commence mes cadeaux du 25/12......

Oatmeal felt background with our cardinal perched on pine branches. Snow and pine cones created with seed beads. Frame is 8"x11" and art is 5"x7".

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De retour vers vous après un peu d'absence... Trois petites pochettes brodées de roses. Rubans, perlés et perles. Modèles tirés du Livret 3 de Facile Cécile (clic) Une pour moi ! et une autre déjà offerte à ma copine Liane. Une rangée de perles en...

Et voici le début de Misore, pas mal de travail encore, Je vous mets le modéle ci dessous.

If you know me, you know I love to hand stitch. I'm guest posting on Alisa Burke's blog today, showing some of my favorite (...

Chris of Ella’s Craft Creations explains how to create embroidered dragonflies with gorgeous iridescent wings. See her tute. The Dragonfly represents change, metamorphosis, adap…

These are the most detailed and colorful brooches (and one pendant) that I ever made. They're like "small paintings" but instead of paint they're made out of wool felt, glass (tiny beads) and thread. These are really pretty in person....