embroidery

Embroidered Ears of Corn

I am smitten with these wee ears of corn that Shawnee of Life With Monkey stitched onto a wool beret. She revamped the beret with some bias tape to keep the edges from being itchy when worn, and then added these sweet, unexpected embroidered accents to finish the upcycle. I’m a sucker for a cluster […]

Stitch Diagrams For South Paws

I was thrilled to see these stitch diagrams and instructions for lefties over on the Sublime Stitching web site today. My mom is a lefty, and she’s mentioned how she’s never been able to find stitch diagrams and instructions that really make sense to her. I can’t wait to share these with her! Here’s a […]

Stitched Samplers With a Twist

American-born artist, Kate Westerholt, lives and works in England where she creates stitched samplers with a dash of modern pop culture. Kate Westerholt creates original samplers with a 21st Century twist. Her work is a kind of cross-stitch time clash – Westerholt playfully adds snippets of contemporary culture to the 18th Century colonial American embroidery […]