This tutorial has moved - you can find the whole how-to part one and part two here :-)
image: © C Findlay-Harder
Tags: art-quilt, art-quilts, Creativity, embellishment, Embellishments, Fabric, machine embroidery, machine-sewing, quilting, sewing, sewing-machines, techniques, tutorial, work-in-progress
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This tutorial has moved - you can find the whole how-to part one and part two here :-)
image: © C Findlay-Harder
Tags: cotton, Creativity, embellishment, embroidery-floss, How To, machine embroidery, machine-sewing, quilting, silk, techniques, wool
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I’ve recently started working with felt squares & fabric. I love the no-fray & easy-to-handle nature of it - of course, the fact that it also comes in pink polka-dots & sparkles is a bonus too!
This is a series of cards I’ve been working on, using felt, embroidery floss & buttons:
I wanted to play with […]
This is the least expensive and perhaps the easiest way to store floss, again from Herrschners.
Here’s the winder from DMC®.
Here are plastic bobbins.
The bobbins can be stored in plastic sleeves, or a plastic case, or…
this lovely 3-Drawer Floss Cabinet!
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The search is on! I need a new way to store my floss. It’s on bobbins right now but they are cardboard, they bend, and I don’t have a winder. Here is a system I’m looking at:
This is the StitchBow complete system from Herrschners.
The complete system includes 480 floss holders, 36 […]
Has thread ever confused you? Here is an excellent treatise on beading thread by Felicity Walker.
Walk into any beading store, and once you can tear your gaze away from the amazing variety of beads, you might manage to find the thread section. This is a great opportunity to get completely bamboozled. There are many different […]
Over the last few months I have looked through the floss displays at the craft and hobby shops I’ve visited locally. DMC cotton 6-strand floss can be found just about everywhere, including WalMart. Some of the specialty DMC flosses, and Kreinik fibers (blending filament, #4 braid) can be found in limited variety. […]
Setting the pattern: Adventures in sewing and stitching and the artful use of fabric and fiber
Written by Chloe Findlay-Harder [email] for b5media.
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