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Doing Lots of Hand Work from Luann's Loose Threads

Hello Dear Readers

It's a beautiful day here in Indiana. It's a bit cool, but the sun is shining and that makes everything better, right? Of course it does. I saw Patty on Tuesday, and she said she enjoys reading my blog. It's always nice to hear that from a reader, so thanks Patty!

I've been using these winter months to look through my stash and decide what I think I will really use and what I can part with. I have a whole lot of stash in containers in my basement, and they have kind ...

added by LuAnn 1 month, 1 week ago. under antique baskets , embroidery , hand embroidery , little baskets , little embroidered baskets , sue spargo thread , sue spargo wool , transfer eze

Doing Lots of Hand Work from Loose Threads

Hello Dear Readers

It's a beautiful day here in Indiana. It's a bit cool, but the sun is shining and that makes everything better, right? Of course it does. I saw Patty on Tuesday, and she said she enjoys reading my blog. It's always nice to hear that from a reader, so thanks Patty!

I've been using these winter months to look through my stash and decide what I think I will really use and what I can part with. I have a whole lot of stash in containers in my basement, and they have kind ...

added by LuAnn 1 month, 1 week ago. under antique baskets , embroidery , hand embroidery , little baskets , little embroidered baskets , sue spargo thread , sue spargo wool , transfer eze

Impulse English Paper Pieced Heart Dish from Gefilte Quilt

I always get in a Valentine's Day mood at the last minutes. Here's the impulse project I made yesterday, an English Paper Pieced dish that can serve as a pincushion:

...or a thimble holder:

...or maybe an embroidery thread basket....

Or, pile it with chocolates for your sweetie. Here's how I constructed it. There's stiff fusible interfacing inside each piece; both sides are covered with fabric.

The bowl takes shape when you sew up the side seams.

Last, I did a bit of embellishment with the variegated embroidery thread in the ball above.

If you'd ...

added by Cathy Perlmutter 1 month, 2 weeks ago. under 3-d , batik , bowl , embellishment , embroidery , english paper piecing , hand embroidery , polyhedra , polyhedron

Stitching a Sampler and More! from Telling Stories Through the Needle's Eye

This time of year for Teri and me (Kara) is a little crazy. We are getting prepped and ready for our Academy of Appliqué class, and this year we have two new teaching venues, all around the same time. Needless to say we are stitching, cutting, and typing our little hearts out!

Our first class will be our Academy class, and we are teaching the first two blocks from our Woodland Reverie Quilt. We are excited about these two dimensional blocks, and we hope our students are, too! There are a few seats left in the class, so if you ...

added by Teri and Kara—Through the Needle's Eye 1 month, 3 weeks ago. under academy of appliqué , embroidery , hand embroidery , ribbon , ribbon embroidery , ribbon flowers , ribbon roses , sampler , stitching

A Prairie Update from Telling Stories Through the Needle's Eye

As the new year has begun, so has the drive to complete some projects that we have on deck for this year. Teri wrote about hers a couple of weeks ago in her goals post seen HERE, and I (Kara) also have a few in-progress items that I have been working to get finished. As Teri mentioned in her post, I like to have projects as opposed to just blocks—not that there is anything wrong with having blocks. When we finished our Baltimore Fraktur blocks for our September 2020 class at Baltimore on the Prairie, I knew then that ...

added by Teri and Kara—Through the Needle's Eye 2 months ago. under academy of appliqué , applique , applique quilts , baltimore on the prairie , embroidery , fraktur , hand embroidery , hand quilting , painters threads , quilt , quilting , wool applique , wool thread

Examining Crazy Stitches from Telling Stories Through the Needle's Eye

In November, I (Teri) wrote about a lot of three crazy quilts that Kara and I won in an online auction. (See Still Crazy...) I described two of them, but the third was—is—going to be the inspiration for a new project, so I decided to share that one on its own. There are so many lovely stitch combinations to study; it deserves its own post. After writing about my 2020 goals last week, I realized that this new project might be put on a back burner for awhile, so I thought I'd share the quilt with you ...

added by Teri and Kara—Through the Needle's Eye 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under crazy quilt , embroidery , hand embroidery , quilt , stories , velvet

Trust your instinct! from Crazy Quilter on a Bike!

I hope you all had a Merry Christmas! It was a very quiet day at our house - just the way we like it. We had popcorn for lunch while we watched the new Star Wars movie. I'm not going to say anything about the movie today, as I know some of you haven't watched it yet. It was an awesome way to spend the afternoon!

After we got home, I took a long walk with the girls to compensate for the popcorn (which had no butter, so it wasn't that big of a deal), but still, a ...

added by Elaine 3 months ago. under applique , christmas , completed ufo , hand embroidery , movie , nutrition , red , redwork , ufo , white quilts

hand embroidery and ribbons from Karen Ann Ruane

hand embroidery work and ribbons

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added by karen ruane 3 months, 1 week ago. under embroidery , embroidery school , embroidery school...stitch along , hand embroidery , online learning , ribbons

Stitching a Tea Cozy Garden from Telling Stories Through the Needle's Eye

A few months ago, I (Teri) joined the local chapter of the Embroiderers' Guild of America. Each month at the meetings, an embroidery project is offered; at my first meeting it was a cute little tea cozy, made with buttons. I love tea, and I have a vast collections of buttons, so I gathered some fun buttons and threads and set off on my new adventure.

I love to challenge myself to learn new stitches or to make them with different threads or applications. For this project, I chose to focus on using Painters Threads and floss by Weeks Dye ...

added by Teri and Kara—Through the Needle's Eye 4 months, 1 week ago. under bee , butterfly , buttons , embroidery , flowers , hand embroidery , painters threads , ribbon , tea cozy , weeks dye works

Woven and Felt Wool Applique from One Designer Pursuing her Dreams

That’s it! I’ve fallen down the wool applique rabbit hole. I’ve spent a good bit of my sewing time talking about ways to avoid hand sewing and here I am… HAND SEWING....

See more sewing and quilting adventures from Jen Eskridge of ReannaLily Designs

added by Jen Eskridge 4 months, 2 weeks ago. under blog , dawn heese , featured , hand embroidery , hand sewing , improv applique , improv quilt , kim mcclean , quilt , reannalily designs , recycle , sewing , sue spargo , wool applique (Comments)

Butterfly Wings and Trilliums from Telling Stories Through the Needle's Eye

Yesterday, on our social media pages (Instagram and Facebook), I (Teri) posted this flower center with the caption "Guess the flower!" We didn't get a lot of guesses, but that wasn't too surprising to me. When we decided to add this particular flower to our new Woodland Reverie quilt designs, I confess that I had to do some research, as it is a flower I don't know very well. But Google is a wonderful resource, and I was able to find some excellent photos to use as models for my flower.

But first, let's look at ...

added by Teri and Kara—Through the Needle's Eye 5 months, 1 week ago. under applique , butterfly , embroidery , flowers , french ombré ribbon , hand embroidery , painters threads , ribbon flower , weeks dye works , woodland reverie

Library Candy from Telling Stories Through the Needle's Eye

We live in a digital age which is quite convenient in many ways—especially when it comes to books. I (Kara) read exclusively on my Ipad for a multitude of reasons; one of which is the fact that my eyesight is not what it used to be and I can make the print as large as I want. Another reason is that my husband got tired of having me pack heavy books when we would go on vacation. But as easy as it is to get digital books these days, I will always buy the paper version when it comes ...

added by Teri and Kara—Through the Needle's Eye 5 months, 2 weeks ago. under embroidery , hand embroidery , needlework , ribbon flower , ribbon flowers , stitching , wet felting , wool , wool felting

Welcome Fall; We've Been Waiting! from From the Strawberry Patch...

At long last some cooler temperatures have arrived and it's feeling fall-like; the wait has been well worth it-- brisk mornings and pleasant afternoons under sapphire-blue skies. Quiltkeemosabe and I got together this week to work and compare notes on our progress with making, and writing up directions for, every one of the 202 six inch blocks from Rosemary Youngs' Quilt Block Bible. We have

added by Mrs. Goodneedle 5 months, 3 weeks ago. under fair , gregory , hand embroidery , lynnleigh , quiltkeemosabe , sampler , the quilt block bible

Welcome Fall; We've Been Waiting! from From the Strawberry Patch...

At long last some cooler temperatures have arrived and it's feeling fall-like; the wait has been well worth it-- brisk mornings and pleasant afternoons under sapphire-blue skies. Quiltkeemosabe and I got together this week to work and compare notes on our progress with making, and writing up directions for, every one of the 202 six inch blocks from Rosemary Youngs' Quilt Block Bible. We have

added by Mrs. Goodneedle 5 months, 3 weeks ago. under fair , gregory , hand embroidery , lynnleigh , quiltkeemosabe , sampler , the quilt block bible

Modern Circles and Squares Quilt from I Love Baby Quilts!

It's finished! This queen sized modern circles in squares quilt is done. It may be my favorite quilt so far. I based it off of this baby quilt I made last year and made it bigger and better. You can't see the quilting in this far view, but the quilting is the best part.

I thought I'd take you through the process, in case you'd like to make one for yourself!

First, decide on how many blocks and what sizes of circles you'd like. For the baby quilt my circles were smaller, but for this ...

added by ilovebabyquilts 7 years, 1 month ago. under all by hand , brown , circle applique , circles , embroidery , fall colors , far far away , hand embroidery , heather ross , modern , modern quilt , queen size , red , solids , squares , yellow

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