Watch These Meditative Embroidered Zoetropes
Elliot Schultz created these animated zoetropes by embroidering fabric and spinning them on record players, and the result is hypnotizing.
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Learn to Make Soutache: Braid-and-Bead Embroidery Jewelry
Soutache is a common element in the French art of passementerie (decorative trim). Find out how you can use it to many fancy jewelry pieces.
Skill Builder: Using an Awl to Sew Leather and Heavy Fabrics
Introduction If you think about tools that we use today that are passed down from ancient people, the knife, or possibly a modern version of the spear might come to mind. Lying somewhere between those two implements in the modern-day usefulness is the awl. Made out of bone in ancient times, the basic purpose of […]
Play Kitchen: Felt Tea Bags
Whip up these simple felt tea bag toys for more play time fun with the kids!
Mending with Monsters
Worn out knees in your favorite jeans? Patch it with a monster face!
Sew Your Own Doll Clothes
Dolly dress up time. Give your dolls a new handmade wardrobe!
DIY Japanese Bookbinding With Embroidered Covers
Have you spun a tale that’s ready for DIY publishing? Then go ahead and thread your needle and stitch your story into a beautiful book, like these elegant examples of Japanese bookbinding with embroidered covers by Anne of Flax & Twine.
