Paisley, aka Mango design, is a pattern that brings contrasting emotions in different people. Some people adore the paisley flower motifs and try to incorporate them in some form or other in their designs. Some dislike the paisley pattern and avoid it. At one point, I belonged to the second category and thought that the … Read more
Applique is a beautiful fabric embellishing technique in which fabric pieces are layered over the fabric to create beautiful designs. The fabric pieces are stitched to the background fabric with several decorative stitches like zig-zag, satin stitches, or buttonhole stitches. You can do applique work by hand as well as by machine. High-end Embroidery machines and … 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
Cutwork is embroidery done on fabric with spaces cut out in between. Renaissance cutwork, Broderie Anglaise, Richeheu work, and Reticella cutwork are all different forms of this work and involves the same process with varying effect in the sizes of spaces when the spaces are cut out and the stitches used in between.Beautifully done cutwork … Read more