Pat Winter of Gatherings shares images of some of the many crazy-quilt projects she has completed over the years. And she encourages us to participate in Crazy Quilts Are Quilts, Too! sponsored by …
The NAN Exemplary, held each year in March, has some of the most innovative a beautiful needlework you’ll see. Although it encompasses more than just needlepoint, you’ll find lots of inspiring pieces here. They have just added this year’s winners to their website. The first page has an overview with thumbnails of all the winners. […]
Purple Haze WIP................... Glazig.................... Beading........................ Thats all for now folks..........Enjoy xxxxx
Penny Nickels is hanging out over at MrXStitch, buffing up our appreciation of contemporary blackwork. Go see.
We've pulled together a sampler of endless stitch-spiration.
Since putting together my book back in 2008, the feedback I have received has always been along a similar vein...The book includes my own...
We've pulled together a sampler of endless stitch-spiration.
Bari of We Love French Knots posted the covers of four contemporary Japanese embroidery books. I got lost in the details for at least ten minutes. Imagine how long I would be on Planet Embroidery i…
We've pulled together a sampler of endless stitch-spiration.
Good Things puts your head in a creatively tidy place with a celebration of the best artistic grids
Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr pool: "free form hand embroidered colour storm!" by Flickr user chimaera2007.
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When I first got my partner assignment for the Alison Glass Mini Quilt Swap, I was pretty intimidated. My partner, as in the person I was making a quilt for, was Kim Johnson. Kim is phenomenal. She…
We've pulled together a sampler of endless stitch-spiration.
The supply of eye candy never ends at the blog of the Crazy Quilt Journal Project 2012. See participants’ blocks–such as this lovely example by Shari J of Colorado–as they’r…
We've pulled together a sampler of endless stitch-spiration.
textiles and textile related activities
My finished Brazilian CQI Round Robin. The group working on this RR did a great job. The block is beautiful and very delicate. The majority of work was embroidered with Edmar threads which are not for the faint of heart. Thanks to Karrin, Kathy, Rebecca, and Deloris (Dee). Deloris' lovely corner spray. Dee, you are certainly more than a beginner at Brazilian! Karrin's sunny daisy and cast on stitch flower Karrin' very neat bullion and french knot sprays and cast on stitch seam. See the whole block photo for it all. Kathy's classy bullion roses spray and bullion seam. Kathy's feather stitch and star flowers! The flowers sit high and are very pretty with the variegated boucle thread. Rebecca's pretty and colourful spray, and Rebecca, there will be no unpicking by me, it's lovely work! Rebecca's "falling roses"! I had to wait to take the photos because I left my photo box behind at my sister's in NY on my way back from the Adventure in Connecticut. I found two different sized opaque containers and my handy friend cut the circle out to hold my camera lens. Using these I don't need a tripod and can use the macro for close ups.
Creating everyday art through the fiber arts.
Last year, I made the over-hasty announcement that I would be attending Beating Around the Bush, 2012, down in Australia. Alas, for me, it was over-hasty, because I’m not going after all. At the time, I wasn’t aware of the various project deadlines that Country Bumpkin had to meet for marketing the event, and, having ...
Lilo Bowman, producer of The Quilting Show (starring Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson), visited the studio of ribbonwork expert Helen Gibbs recently. She is sharing her beautiful photos of Helen’…
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So I promised you some eye candy from the Mountain Quiltfest Show in Pigeon Forge, didn't I? Warning! This is a very picture-heavy post!!! There were some absolutely GORGEOUS quilts in this show. I'm sharing a few of my favorites. It was a smaller show compared to some of the AQS and International shows, but I thoroughly enjoyed it and hope to go again regularly :*) I posted about this quilt - my favorite - in an earlier post HERE. Circle of Curiosity by Anne B.G. Armour You can click on the link to see more closeups and details of this wonderful quilt. Here are the other photos I took, in no particular order. I was a very bad girl in that I neglected to get the names of the quilters for most of them. I hope you enjoy! Talk about pineapples!!! Wow!!! Interesting quilting motif here.... I loved the scrappiness of this row quilt! It was much brighter and very colorful :*) Closeup details..... Now this quilting took time! But it was very effective. I like how the quilter split some of the squares up diagonally. (Sorry, no pictures of the actual quilt - apparently I just loved the quilting LOL) Gorgeous quilting - and those birds in the corner are machine embroidered! Paula Nadelstern's Caribbean Blues. There was a special display of some of her quilts - YUM!!! One of my classes was with Paula and I'll be sharing more about her later :*) I have this one ear-marked to make one day from the AQS Magazine I just LOVE mandalas!!! My camera does not do this quilt justice!!! It was simply GORGEOUS!!!! The quilting on it was just as gorgeous! Can you see the shape of the edge? Just one more special touch :*D Lots of couching with metallic threads :*) Very visual impact - and this was in the Teen Quilt section! Can you see the musical symbols quilted into the black area? This looks like a fairly simple art quilt from a distance, but...... Move in a little closer and you begin to see all the details quilted into it! Can you see the hummingbirds? How about here? This was absolutely beautifully quilted! This quilt hung in the lobby of the Convention Center The details were amazing!!! All sorts of extra needlework details were lavished on this beauty!!! This one is for all of us strip lovers!!! It was ablaze with color... I loved it!!! Botanical Fantasy by Lorilynn King What can I say? Words can't begin to describe this masterpiece!!! These next ones are for my fellow cat lovers!!! (You may notice that I never got a photo of the complete quilt - just the kitties LOL!!!) And finally, I saw this lady standing in line next to me to have our scissors sharpened. Her necklace just fascinated me, so I asked if I could take a picture to share with you all. Isn't it FUN???? I hope you enjoyed the Show! I still have to share the classes I took, as well as a few fun things I encountered during my travels, so stay tuned =^..^= Hugs & Blessings! Teresa =^..^=
Do you love scrap quilts? Bonnie Hunter has been a mainstay here at Quiltmaker for the last 10 years. Her scrap quilts were so popular that she started writing her “Addicted to Scraps” features in 2010. Whenever one of her quilts comes in we all gather around it and marvel. They are the eye candy of scrap quilts!
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The Art of Annemieke Mein: Wildlife Artist in Textiles Аннемиеке Мейн(Annemieke Mein) - художница по текстилю из Австралии. Она делает потрясающие реалистичные картины из жизни дикой природы, используя текстиль. Техники ее виртуозны и разнообразны - она расписывает ткани, вышивает по ним вручную и…
Index page for a Stitch Dictionary of hand embroidery stitch tutorials. A library of Illustrated step by step instructions for each stitch.
Christmas has come and gone for another year, much to Frankie’s chagrin. No sooner had he gotten used to all the ‘new’ Christmas-y things that invaded ‘his’ space when it was time to pack them away. *wink* Although it wasn’t in the forecast, we had a beautiful white Christmas. It snowed almost all day on Friday, the 23rd and the entire day on Christmas Eve. Here is what it looked like out our back door just after daybreak on Christmas morning. How many times have you said to yourself that you wish it would snow on Christmas Eve and be gone a few days later? I guess we have to be careful what we wish for, huh? And here is the same view this morning…only five days later… at around the same time of day. We’ve had amazingly mild temperatures for the past three or four days with lots of rain and high winds and in the blink of an eye, the snow vanished. The grass has remained green because we haven’t had many nights to speak of where the temperature has dipped to below freezing. Even Mac prefers the outdoors without snow because there are more places for him to sniff and explore. This morning while Mr. Painted Quilt was at the gym, I decided to put Christmas to bed for 2011. The antique poinsettia quilt on our bed has been replaced with this Lemoyne Star , pieced by me and quilted by my friend Nancy who is in China for the next two years because of her husband’s job. Miss you, Nancy! Nancy did all the free motion quilting in my favorite motif…feathers! The photos really do not do justice to the quilting. And it’s ‘Frankie-approved!” In our other house, I always referred to our guest bedroom as ‘Emily’s room”. Do we have a daughter named Emily? No. Then why Emily? It’s a name that I’ve always loved and over the years, it just kind of evolved into a girl-child’s room. After a few changes and additions, our Nova Scotia home is also ready for Emily…or anyone else for that matter…to pay us a visit. When I unpacked more boxes a few weeks ago, familiar treasures from Emily’s room in Ontario began to reappear. With a few nails here and a little folding there, the transformation started to take place. Of course I had to put my Raggedy & Friends quilt on the bed, along with Miss Ann herself. And here she is just settling down in her new digs to read a few chapters of her favorite book… while surrounded by familiar things that were packed away for what seemed like a lifetime. Home at last! For those of you who might be new to my blog or are visiting for the first time, the Raggedy & Friends quilt was a free BOM that I designed and released about a year and a half ago. The PDF files are still available to download on the right sidebar of my blog just by clicking on the individual links. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ And I really have to show you these neat labels that I ordered and received only a few days ago. They are made from 100% natural cotton twill and the quality is wonderful. They come in a roll as shown below and are very reasonably priced. I started to compose this post around 10 a.m. and am just finishing it now. In the interim, our mail was delivered to our roadside box and I decided to run out to check if any of my orders had arrived. No orders but a card was left indicating that there was a parcel waiting for me to be picked up at the post office. I whined asked Mr. PQ if he would drive me to the post office in town and I was thrilled to bits when I found out that the parcel was the one that Mary had posted on December 7th that we both thought had been lost in the mail. The timing couldn’t have been better. I am writing these next words with tears rolling down my cheeks…not because of what I am about to say…but because the wording on the plaque that Mary sent says it all. The source to my cancer has been determined and treatments will commence on the 23 of this month.
Stitch this tiny take on Toulouse-Lautrec's famous Chat Noir poster using the Eye Candy canvas (purchased separately) and this stitch guide. The guide has all the information you need to stitch the canvas. PLEASE NOTE: This is a digital pattern ONLY. No canvas, thread, or other materials are included in this listing. The file will be available for instant download upon confirmation of payment. You will receive an email that will contain a link that you will use to print the pattern. No refunds will be given. You may not re-sell, share or distribute this pattern in any form, printed or digital. Doing so violates copyright law.
Battlement couching is used in hand embroidery as a colorful filling stitch. Continuing with different lattice stitches in the Stitch Fun series, today we’re going to look at battlement couching and see just how easy it is to do! I think this is my Favorite laid thread / lattice technique – I love the way ...
