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A Little Chat About Pearl and Her Friends from Telling Stories Through the Needle's Eye

Teri and I (Kara) are feverishly getting ready for the Academy of Appliqué in Williamsburg, Virginia, the first week in March—making kits, gathering threads, and writing patterns. Since many hands make light work, I asked a friend to come over and help me put together thread kits. I was explaining that there were a few different types of pearl cottons in the kit along with the floss. She mentioned that she hadn't even heard of pearl cotton only floss. That spawned an idea for a short post on pearl cotton and its variations, along with how it compares ...

added by Teri and Kara—Through the Needle's Eye 2 years, 2 months ago. under embroidery , embroidery floss , painters threads , pearl cotton , threads , weeks dyeworks , wool embroidery

The Weather & Stitching from Where Art & Life Meet

My mother hasn’t sent me anything in a few days other than requests for rain, which I’ve done my best to accommodate, but I only have so much reach when it comes to the weather. Speaking of which, it’s in the upper nineties here in New York City for the next couple of days and […]

added by Ariane Zurcher 2 years, 10 months ago. under ariane zurcher designs , ariane zurcher on the other hand , ariane zurcher youtube , creative process , design , hand stitching , improv stitching , improvisational hand stitching , life , painters threads , stef francis , the thread gatherer , weather memes (Comments)

Baby, It's Cold Outside! from Telling Stories Through the Needle's Eye

Depending on where you live, it is cold outside. Some of our friends in the northern climes are experiencing some bitter, cold temperatures. It is one of those very cold locations that we envisioned when we created this block for the Winter Wonderland Mystery Sew-A-Long. Our snowman builder just couldn't take the weather anymore—not when there was a warm and cozy fire nearby.

Before starting your block, please read our pattern directions thoroughly. Our directions for how we cut out our appliqué pieces (especially the footprints) are very specific for the method we use. We use freezer paper ...

added by Teri and Kara—Through the Needle's Eye 3 years, 2 months ago. under embroidery , painters threads , snowman , stitching , valdani , winter wonderland mystery sew-a-long , wool , wool applique

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 4 years, 3 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

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 years, 5 months ago. under bee , butterfly , buttons , embroidery , flowers , hand embroidery , painters threads , ribbon , tea cozy , weeks dye works

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 4 years, 6 months ago. under applique , butterfly , embroidery , flowers , french ombré ribbon , hand embroidery , painters threads , ribbon flower , weeks dye works , woodland reverie

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