patterns

Mah Jong Embroidery Pattern

Jenny Hart’s newly released book, Embroidered Effects, takes the easy-to-follow stitching instructions Jenny’s known for and pulls in new, more advanced stitches and design elements to help move stitchers to a new level. Where Jenny’s book Sublime Stitching: Hundreds of Hip Embroidery Patterns and How-To introduces basic stitches and provides dozens of very simple patterns, […]

Halloween Doodle Embroidery

By Vickie Howell If you’re like me, you pretty much start celebrating Halloween by about September 15th. Skulls, witches, bats, and ghosts make me smile like a kid at Christmas (no disrespect). Instead of keeping the visions of pumpkins dancing in my head, though, I prefer to sew them onto cloth. Join me won’tcha, by […]