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Stitches on Paper: Discover Ana Falceta’s Embroidered Mixed-Media Art

The contemporary stitched paper art of Ana Falceta in Waterdown, Ontario is a joyful profusion of vibrant color. She delights in crafting rich, highly textured abstract composition...

STITCHING...WELL KINDA SORTA

While my stitchy mojo vacations somewhere wonderful (I hope), I am pulling things from the WiP basket and poking them with needle and thread. Here's the latest FeeNee:I'm sorry tha...

Sewing something?

toryroo: got a pack of the little clips for sewing I like the clips too, once I worked out that the was a right side to have up not a natural sewer me! Most of my stuff is sti...

STITCHED

The ladies of the Ogden Quilters Association are gearing up for another Simpton Family Quilting Extravaganza, and this year’s nationwide competition is extra special: It’s taking p...

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Putting text into textiles

In March I attended a workshop, with the above title, given by a visiting tutor Jo Yeates (see – instagram@made52). The idea was to hand-stitch a layered fabric collage featuring t...

Stitch a Silly Goose Wizard

I have never been one who can predict trends, and even when I hear about trends for crafting I don’t always believe them. When I heard ducks and geese were going to be big this yea...

Glue basting

 One of the things I have learned about from watching YouTube videos on quilting is glue basting. Back when I first started quilting, I only knew about long basting stitches with a...

Quilted!

 The blocks for my next quilt have all been quilted. Next up, trim them to size. I'm going to approach this quilt a little differently. I have been binding all the blocks, and then...

Textile Closeup

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Cross Stitch a Job and Get a Jump on Holiday Crafting

I was recently doing a scroll through some crafting websites that I follow and I came across this amazing collection of cross stitch job patterns from Koekoek. It includes more tha...

Stitch a Color Wheel in Flowers

If you’re someone whose favorite color is all of them, or you know someone like that (in my world it’s my daughter!) this color wheel bouquet cross stitch pattern is one you might...

New to me

The new sewing machine foot to help with seam binding hasn't arrived yet, but I really wanted to try this new to me technique for attaching the binding. I decided to play around wi...

Trimmed and stacked

 Mom and I went shopping and out to lunch with daughter Carol. It was a great day, and I even managed to trim all of my quilt blocks and put them in order for binding and joining.I...

Easy Ways to Fancy Up Your Biscornu

The cross stitcher behind the blog Sirious Stitches is quite into biscornu. If you’re not, a quick primer: biscornu are three-dimensional cross-stitched objects with eight points,...

Designer Spotlight: Works by ABC

Works by ABC sells both PDFs and paper patterns of many of its designs, which include temperature projects, intricate designs that look like lace, floral designs and more.  The pat...

Keepin' busy

 I had quite a few squares left over from my most recent wall hanging quilt, so I decided to make them up into four patch blocks. I'm not sure if they will stay this way, or if I w...

Free Felted Woodland Mini Mending Pattern Review

This one is especially charming because it mixes felting with embroidery, which gives it a more textured, storybook kind of finish. If you’ve been searching for free mending patter...

12 Trapunto Quilting Tutorials and Dimensional Quilt Projects to Try

There is something wonderfully irresistible about a quilt with texture. Not just ordinary quilting texture, either. I mean padded flowers, raised geometric shapes, softly stuffed l...

I've Made A Start

 Right, I've committed to using the Kaffe Fassett kit and made a start. It feels a bit like that game where you rub your tummy and pat your head at the same time, but it is doable....

The Wild Craft of “Stitching with Nature”

What’s the wildest thing you’ve ever stitched with? Maybe you’ve explored different fibres, played with old and new materials, or picked some wacky colours, but we’ll be you’ve nev...

How to Sew the Blanket Stitch for Crochet Borders and More

Have you ever wanted to add a crochet edging to a dish towel? Or maybe you've admired beautiful crocheted borders on quilts or fleece blankets and wondered how they got there witho...