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Tangled Thread - Tips, Trick and Tutorials in Sewing & Stitching

Archive for the ‘Surface Embroidery’ Category

April 4th, 2006

Stitching WIP update

What does one do when the Spring Cold strikes the family with a vengeance? Nothing. At least, that is what one really should do. I managed that for about one day, and then spent the next day stitching.
An update on Frederick - the blended confetti stitching takes longer than I wish it […]

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March 25th, 2006

Turkish Embroidery

Several years ago I bought a copy of Azade Akar’s _Treasury of Turkish Designs: 670 Motifs from Iznik Pottery_ because I loved the images in it. Eventually I transferred one of them to cloth and embroidered it. It was, in my biased opinion ;), quite lovely. But it didn’t quite look ‘right’, […]

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March 18th, 2006

Spring Fever

I was looking through my craft storage the other week and came across a project barely begun and then forgotten. Last evening I wanted something to stitch, but without the concentration that counted cross stitch requires. I retrieved the pillowcases from the box, and examined them more closely. A lovely fully open rose blossom, […]

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