I had hoped to post my completed sashiko embroidery yesterday, but alas, even today all I have to share is my work-in-progress. I vastly underestimated the sheer number of hours this project would take! (Almost 7 so far!) I’m working from a nifty kit that contained a printed piece of linen, special sashiko thread, and […]
While I was at the Maker Faire Detroit, I picked up a sweet Japanese embroidery kit from Tadaa Studios. It’s called Sashiko which translates to “little stabs” so it really is the perfect embroidery for me, the chronic needlefelter. The technique involves stacking up stitches on a long needle to create perfect little dashes. The […]
Jenny Hart points us to the embroidered work of artist Peter Crawley. I love the crisp, stark quality of the stitched illustrations, and think Jenny sums it up well on her blog, Embroidery as Art: Worked almost exclusively in black thread on paper, the precision and line work that could be mistaken for pen and […]
There are a lot of fun Christmas in July series circulating on craft blogs this month, including over at Sew, Mama, Sew! This awesome felt paisley stocking Cathy Ziegele makes me want to drop everything and come up with fifty million different ways to stitch felt paisleys on to stockings for everyone I know.
Embroidered Digital Commons is a participatory artwork facilitated by Ele Carpenter. You can sign up to embroider a patch of text for display at the AND Festival in Manchester UK this coming October: The Embroidered Digital Commons is a collectively stitched version of the Raqs Media Collective’s text ‘A Concise lexicon of / for the […]
Doe-c-Doe has been sharing gifts she made for a recent baby shower this week on her blog, and I’m loving the projects. Forget about the baby, I want a set of these adorable embroidered pillows she made, using vintage coloring book pages, for myself! I used images from a vintage coloring book, scanned them, re-drew […]
Get your embroidery hoops ready! The Sublime Stitching Contest is challenging you to a Sublime Stitching mashup! I’m one of the judges for the contest and we want to see the most original, stitched-up combination of various patterns from Sublime Stitching themes. There’s a host of a fabulous prizes so don’t miss out on this […]
