Blanket stitch is used to reinforce the edge of thick materials. It is defined as a decorative stitch used to finish an unhemmed blanket. The stitch can be seen on both sides of the blanket.
Embroidery
If you would like to stitch and personalize your lamp, swedish company LampGustaf’s amusing Stitch Lamp demands a bit of DIY: It comes with a darning needle and yarn in eight colors, so you can add your own pattern to the mesh shade.
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This embroidery stitch is also known as double cable stitch Zigzag. It is a simple but effective variation of ordinary cable stitch. It is a line stitch and filling used on plain-and-even-weave fabrics.
The stitches are formed in exactly the same manner as cable stitch, but each one is worked at right angles to the previous one to make a zigzag line. When used as a line stitch, zigzag cable stitch is usually worked in straight lines, as it does not follow curves well. Continue reading
Running stitch is very easy to do and it can be used for straight and curved lines, for outlines, as a quilting stitch, as a gathering stitch for smocking, and as a foundation for other stitches. This is one of the few embroidery stitches where several stitches may be made at once, by running the needle in and out of the fabric.
Aemilia Ars is an exquisite needlelace, it was created during the period of Renaissance in Italy. Between the end of the XIX and early XX century, was born a prestigious school of applied art that promoted the upgrading Crafts .
Aemilia Ars Workshop founded in Bologna in 1898 by the Alfonso Rubbiani (1848ò1913) , artist, architect, restorer, designer, poet and lawyer in order to recover, distribute and market the arts in Emilia. This initiative was supported by Count Francesco Cavazza, other nobles and in particular by the Countess Lina Cavazza, noblewoman that from her personal collection was made available antique lace for the study and revival of the now lost techniques.
Before you begin to embroider cross-stitch in a hot summer day you can eat a sweet ice cream.
While embroidering a placemat or a dish towel we can learn languages writing with needle and thread “Gelato” in Italian (Gelato) and Spanish (Helado).
Here below you will find the free cross stitch pattern to embroidery these colorful ice cream.
Welcome to my hand embroidery classes dedicated to all those who want to learn how to stitch and know the different embroidery techniques. In this article there are the instructions to learn counted thread embroidery.
Counted thread embroidery requires counting the threads of the fabric and working each stitch over an exact number of threads. You can use even-weave fabric or canvas. The count of these fabric is the number of threads per square inch and this determines the size of the stitches as well as the size of the finished embroidery. Continue reading
Your kids or you have never see the film WALL-E?
If not watch it! There are Wall-E and Eve, two robots that are more of robots. They are more human that robots.
Here instruction for make a soft Eve toy!
A part 1 of a tutorial thank to Lee. She shows us how to transform an oversized t-shirt into a stylish asymmetrical skirt.
Petchy has made a case for her new iPod Nano and she decided to make a tutorial from her second – so here goes…
This is a design by Danielle Kassner to build a Vaasa. These Vaasa gauntlets, are designed in the Korsnas tapestry crochet tradition, in Finland.
For more information on this wonderful tradition, see Carol Ventura’s blog post, Korsn’s Tapestry Crochet.