Book Folding: Heart

One of my MIL’s friends wanted to share something she recently learned and fell in love with, and I got invited over to “wine club” to participate, too.  Everyone pitched in for some yummy food, and she brought supplies and taught us about book...

WIP-TAST-ic Wednesday 13

This week’s work-in-progress is back down to a single project: TAST – the sheaf stitch. I forgot my black thread at home today, so I could not start with the title segment as usual. But I found so many ideas! Holy cow, I really shouldn’t be surprised...

Ribbon Embroidery: the letter R

I first learned about Tatiana Popova’s ribbon work through NeedlenThread’s review. As I’ve mentioned before, floral designs aren’t really my thing, but I had been interested in learning more about ribbon embroidery. I enjoyed Tatiana’s...

TAST: chevron stitch

You’ve read about my idea for this here, right? Ok! See all completed TAST posts here. Here is my sampler for the chevron stitch, front and back: To start, I wanted to see how well the chevron stitch took to a curve (fine!). Then I was curious what happens if you play...

WIP-TAST-ic Wednesday 12

Hola all! I whipped out TAST’s chevron stitch as you can see here. Problem is…. how does one make this into a motif?? I’ll be twirling that around in my head for a while yet… When researching this stitch, I came upon the Half Chevron Stitch and...

Mabel the Raccoon

An embroidery whirlwind blew through town this weekend and I finished up my raccoon embroidery. I had so much fun figuring out what stitch to use and how to solve problems along the way! I didn’t even mind – at all! – re-doing some sections. And...