The Embroidery Blog

The Embroidery Blog is my project scrapbook for what I've been working on lately. This blog will...

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May 1, 2012

How to Protect a Tapestry Stool

I have just completed 2 x wool tapestries for covering a duet piano stool. How do I protect the tapestry, i.e. stop it from getting 'balled' when a person

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Mar 22, 2012

Duplicate Stitch Embroidery on Knit Baby Moccasins

I made these two pair of knit baby moccasins while pregnant with our first child. This was my first baby knitting project after

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Mar 15, 2012

I Want to Learn Machine Embroidery

I would love to learn to do machine embroidery. Where do I start? I have not yet purchased a machine, have only a regular sewing machine. I have seen

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Mar 15, 2012

St. Patrick's Day Cross Stitch

Looking for some St. Patrick's Day cross stitch projects?

Here are designs for a shamrock and rainbow from DLTK. Cute!

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Feb 5, 2012

Football for Machine Embroidery

Need something to do while the football fans are glued to the TV? Here's a free machine embroidery pattern from Embroider This!

The design comes in 14 different formats, so you ought to be able to find one that will work with your programmed embroidery machine.

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Jan 17, 2012

Organizer Systems for Embroidery

There are many organizer systems for embroidery and cross stitch supplies. Choose one that matches the way you work and your needlework storage space.

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Dec 15, 2011

Haunted Library

Since I work at a library I wanted to do a stitching of one. I also did not have a Halloween cross stitch. So I found a Halloween Library which worked

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Dec 2, 2011

My Punch Needle Bear and Beach

I am a junior lawyer who just took oaths but I like to do crafts as my family background made with many kinds of crafts. I make cross stitches, ribbon

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Nov 11, 2011

Bugs and Insects

I found a pattern book on silk embroidery with insects and bugs. Oh, how cute!, I thought. I bought a child's pastel sweat shirt and on the back right

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Nov 3, 2011

Oscar the Owl Pattern

Who's that? It's Oscar the Owl!

This free cross stitch pattern comes from DMC and uses Pearl cotton.

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Oct 28, 2011

Daily Bread

My great-aunt Helen Black made this religious cross stitch that says, Give us this day our daily bread. It's a line from the Lord's Prayer. Her husband

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Oct 7, 2011

Working Blackwork Embroidery Stitches

The double running stitch or Holbein stitch and some easy crewel form the basic blackwork embroidery stitches.

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Sep 23, 2011

Huck Tallit Prayer Shawl

I was taught by a wonderful teacher, Ellen Temkin who realized that the horizontal patterns of Swedish Weaving would be perfect for a tallit - a Jewish

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Sep 23, 2011

London - Heritage

It's a hand embroidery by cross stitch. It was embroidered for my mother's birthday as a present. It shows the famous clock Big Ben reflected in the Thames

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Sep 2, 2011