If you’re ever curious about stumpwork embroidery, but don’t know where to start, we’ve got just the tutorial for you! Our easy-to-follow instructions will have you stitching away like a pro…
Learn how to create a wired butterfly
Megan Zaniewski grew up surrounded by textile makers and stitching. She now creates 3D stumpwork embroidery art.
Stumpwork Flowers by Sachiko Morimoto is an excellent instruction book for helping you apply one of the more challenging embroidery techniques in a floral context. It is a must-have for the keen embroiderer and will empower you to make elegant flower embroideries for friends and loved ones.
Learn Stumpwork Embroidery techniques including padding with felt, raised embroidery stitches, adding slips and creating wired needlework petals
Megan Zaniewski grew up surrounded by textile makers and stitching. She now creates 3D stumpwork embroidery art.
FEATURED as one of Etsy's picks! This design, as featured in the beautiful new book from Inspirations – A PASSION FOR NEEDLEWORK – where this is one of 12 projects featured, is now available to purchase from me. Berries for the Birds stumpwork was designed to encourage beginners to try their hand at stumpwork embroidery. It is available either as a pincushion or as a small picture for framing. This is a full stumpwork kit designed for a beginner who has some knowledge of embroidery stitches. Careful step by step instructions take the embroiderer through a number of techniques specific to stumpwork embroidery. If you are an embroiderer keen to learn about this form of 17th century embroidery, this contemporary piece will guide you through covering wires, needlelace techniques, and covering beads. DESIGN SIZE: Size: 7 cm ( 3″) approx. KIT CONTENTS: This complete kit is screened (printed) onto a high quality linen/cotton blend fabric. It contains all the threads, needles, beads for acorns, beads, wires, muslin (calico) for backing, instructions, photograph and stitch glossary necessary to complete the design. A 13cm or 5 inch hoop/frame is recommended for working this design - https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/61679363/english-beech-hoop-5-or-12cm?ref=shop_home_active_13 It is also to be found as a pincushion design - https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/450389342/pp19-berries-for-the-birds-stumpwork?ref=shop_home_active_1 All of my designer kits are beautifully packaged and presented in sturdy carrier bags, making them very suitable as gifts.
We are going to stick up for “raised” embroidery. Not that it needs sticking up for; it is a very popular and well appreciated form of needlework with many extraordinary people teaching raised, padded, and wire-form embroidery. But here we go… Raised work became very popular in the 16th and 17th centuries and was used on book bindings, mirrors, pictorial embroideries, heraldic clothing or accessories, and most famously caskets. People, animals, flowers, trees, and buildings were all cl
Megan Zaniewski grew up surrounded by textile makers and stitching. She now creates 3D stumpwork embroidery art.
Use this stitch video and step-by-step tutorial to learn how to hand embroider the buttonhole stitch with Melissa Galbraith of MCreativeJ.
Lately, I’ve been needled a lot about hand embroidery needles – lots of questions from beginners and beyond about this mysterious tool that we certainly can’t live without. Today, I want to share a few points about hand embroidery needles, so that you can make a good choice when you select the needle you’ll use ...
