Embroidery

I did not know anything about Hardanger Embroidery till I read about it in a book and fell in love with it. It is a beautiful form of whitework embroidery with a lattice effect created with drawn thread technique with small cutworks made inside blocks of stitches; It is named after a district in Norway, where it is supposed … Read more

Borderie Anglais is a whitework hand embroidery which is very similar to cutwork embroidery. The basis of this embroidery work is the eyelet stitch.In this work beautiful designs of flowers, leaves and stems are done almost entirely in eyelets and ladders The work has delicate eyelets and ladders which are done in satin stitches, overcasting, buttonholing, … Read more

Have you wished you could make cross-stitch designs in the professional way that the designers do? They give the right shadings and do the most intricate designs with such ease. Other than buying cross stitch kits or having expensive cross stitch software, there is a way. In fact, there are many ways in which you … Read more

Many people I know who love sewing, is fascinated by embroidery but choke when they think about finding and drawing the designs on fabric. They look for shortcuts or look out for the simplest designs. That does not mean that simple designs are not beautiful. They are the most stunning in my opinion. But the embroidery … Read more