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Who is making decorations?
I want to make mini biscornus to go on our tree but I don't think I'm going to get around to it.
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Favourite stitches
What's the difference between surface embroidery and decorative stitching?
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Favourite stitches
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When I was taught embroidery in 2005 I learnt back stitch, stem stitch, chain stitch and split stitch. My interest in embroidery really increased this year when I taught myself to cross stitch. What…
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I tend to like the stitches I do fairly well. Satin stitch and long & short stitch are beautiful, but I do them badly and don't enjoy struggling with them. I really enjoy texture stitches like Palestrina knot, coral knot. I love chain st…
My favourite stitch is ghiordes knot or turkey stitch as it's commonly called. I love the fuzziness of bees etc done with this stitch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9u4PA_pvbw Shows you how it's done.
I want to make mini biscornus to go on our tree but I don't think I'm going to get around to it.
Wow that's amazing looking.
the bullion knot, cretan stitch, and the raised fishbone! *yeah!*
I love these ones, though I use backstitch and satin stitch 70% of the time...
As I learned it at school, some 25 years ago, there are two ways of using the term surface embroidery: One is for stitching that does not enter the fabric, but only weaves, whips, or skims along the upper surface of the fabric, usually using other s…
Hi mauvedragon,
I don't know that I have a favorite stitch but I do use the long and short stitch a lot.
You might want to buy a good book that demonstrates (with photos) many of the different stitches. The A-Z of Embroidery Stitches published by C…
Here's Maya's blog address, Carmen.
http://millionlittlestitches.blogspot.com/
If you look on the right hand side of The Story of the Traveling Pages blog, you'll find a list of all our participant's blogs that have one. Maya is one of our partici…
What is the whole address for that blog? Dreaming Quilts : ) Carmen
One of the nice things about making a fiber book is that there are so many options for binding. Just about anything that holds the pages together is good! If you know how many pages you will be putting in, then you can use a running stitch or ladder…
Which stitches did you use?
This is a good question. Like Carol-Anne and Romilly Surface stitches infer by usage in various embroidery books etc as being stitches used in a design worked on the surface of the fabric. In other words stitches used to work motifs on a piece.
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For those who love hand embroidery both traditional and contemporary
What Carol-Anne is referring to, I believe, looks like the decorative seam trimmings used in crazy quilting. In this case, surface embroidery would be more figurative.
My definitions: Surface embroidery is any embroidery done on the surface of a gr…
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- What aspect of textiles are you interested in?
- Embroidery especially cross stitch, sewing
- Where did you learn your textle skills?
- I did machine sewing at school, I picked up some embroidery basics in the SCA, the rest is from books and the net.
- Anything else you want to say to introduce yourself to the group??
- I also enjoy knitting, reading, and history.
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- At 1:56am on December 2, 2009,
Carol-Anne said…
- The "Rhythm and Blue" picture that you commented on is a good example of what I was referring to when I used the term "decorative stitching". You see how different stitches have been combined to make decorative seam treatments. This piece has used a few stitches in lots of different combinations, add to that the clever use of a limited pallette, some lovely laces and beads and as you say the result is amazing.
- At 8:42am on November 29, 2009,
Tina Abert said…
- I am not really sure of all the stitches....I returned the book to the library but I will try to figure that out.. All of the stitches are on a 14 count canvas worked with a parel 5 DMC fiber. Thank you for your question
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