embroidery

Melissa of Crafty Daisies writes: I appologize for not having Lesson 5 ready this week – time has gotten away from me and I don’t see it happening. So this week we’ll continue practicing all the stitches, and next week we’ll combine the stitches for Lesson 5 & 6 for the final lesson. Event tho […]

Check out the beautiful embroidery by Amiee Ray in our CRAFT Flickr pool. I love this embroidered fantasy scene of Jacques Cousteau riding a big fish. She has a whole set dedicated to her illustrated embroidery in her Flickr photos. Check out her site dreamfollow, her etsy store, and her blog too. Link.

Spring Maxfield says, “Totally cool western shirts and dresses with [embroidered] tools or monkeys or most recently, rock paper scissors embroidered on them. The website only shows a small bit of what she does but her flickr is super cool.” Link.

Curiously Crafty Steph has made some awesome embroidered poetry with “The Girl who was pigeon-toed”. I also loved her past one of “The Boy who was Afraid of Balls”. So fun. Link and Link.

Embellishing your knitting with embroidery isn’t as hard as you thought. This step-by-step tutorial by weasleysweaters on Live Journal takes you through the whole process with lots of great photos. Link.

It’s great to find that there are more explorations happening between the technology and crafts world, in this case open source computing and embroidery. From the site, “The Open Source Embroidery project brings together programming for embroidery and computing. It’s based on the common characteristics of needlework crafts and open source computer programming: gendered obsessive […]