When I was a little kid, I used to make bookmarks and puppets at my grandma’s house using yarn on big, plastic square grids. These tapestry wool creations from The Pin Pals look like a much more stylish, all-grown-up version of my beloved childhood craft! Isn’t the barrette beautiful?
Our good pal, Jenny Hart, recently introduced some beautiful new cocktail napkins to her textile collections. Now she’s offering up free embroidery patterns to use on them, and they are fantastic. I’m particularly fond of the “R U 2 DRUNK 2 READ THIS” pattern, but there are also great Halloween and winter patterns, as well […]
On our first visit to the Texas Gulf Coast, my daughter was stung by a jellyfish. Ever since, she kind of flips out when she sees pictures of them. I’m thinking this sweet felt jellyfish project from Melissa of Checkout Girl might be just the thing to help my daughter see them in a whole […]
I love the simplicity of this Swedish Weaving hand towel. It looks surprisingly modern and vintage at the same time.
Amelia Harnas made these enigmatic portraits using a combination of embroidery and wine stains. These portraits are created either by using a wax resist (much like batiks) and repeated wine stains with embroidery as a reinforcing drawing over the original design or wine on paper with machine sewing. [via colossal]
Mollie at Wild Olive is celebrating coffee this week with all kinds of brew-related projects and inspiration. She’s offering up a set of very fun and free coffee embroidery patterns as part of the celebration. My personal favorite design is the commercial coffee pot. It makes me think of Flo on Alice, which I’m hoping […]
I love doing embroidery so much, but I always seem to get stuck when it comes to finishing and framing my work. I’ve read countless tutorials and tips for framing it in a way that preserves the piece, but I like to add to my arsenal of techniques whenever I can. This tutorial from Brenda […]
