Do you know that beads have been found in graves of men who died a long time ago – like thousands of years ago. Check out a recent report here in Huffingtonpost.com – Researchers have discovered three glass beads from a Fifth Century burial site in Japan. In Africa glass beads have been found which … Read more
With hand embroidery and hand sewing, you are spoiled for choices – so-many types of embroidery techniques, threads for embroidery, embroidery fabric hand sewing methods, and embroidery needles. And they are selected based on type of fabric, thread used (e.g., ribbon, wool yarn, floss), and the type of embroidery work (e.g., cross-stitch, ribbon embroidery, appliqué).. … Read more
I have always been fascinated by smocking done on my girls’ dresses and always thought it is too difficult to do. Realistically it is a little bit difficult to do than other embroidery work but the effort is worth it. I have given this post the title beginner’s guide because even I am a beginner and … Read more
Simple feather stitch The feather stitch is a wonderful embroidery stitch you can use for border designs and used in floral designs. It is named so because of the feather like look of the finished embroidery stitch. Looped stitches are made on the left and right, base stitch being the one in fishbone stitch. How … Read more
The fish bone stitch consists of a number of slanted diagonal stitches made inside two imaginary parallel lines.It is great filling stitch, especially for leaves as it leaves a center spine ( it is called the midrib, I suppose) just like what we have on the leaf Check out the post onembroidery stitches for large … Read more
Couching is the art of attaching other fibers to a fabric with little stitches. Any fiber – different types of yarn like hemp yarn, ribbons, embroidery thread, cord, zardozi thread, or even beaded chains can be attached to the fabric with the couching stitches. The couching gives you a beautiful 3-D texture to the whole … Read more