Sharon Boggan of Pintangle offers online embroidery classes off and on. If you’re interested in building a repertoire of stitches but your schedule restricts you from getting out to a class, why not try one online? If you’ve ever checked out Sharon’s stitch dictionary, you know the classes are going to be top-notch.
Another great idea that she is working up can be found on her blog – a weekly stitch challenge, where she posts detailed instructions on a particular stitch each week, and we interpret the stitch, work something up, and post pictures. To me, this sounds like a great idea! Creative, fun, interactive, and – best of all – perfect for improving embroidery skills.
September 15, 2006
Thanks Mary for the link and the plug both for my classes and the stitch challenge I appreciate it
The challenge should shape up to be alot of fun and hopefully a good skills sharing exercise so I am looking forward to it
I am enjoying your blog thanks for the effort you have been putting in I will be swinging by regularly.
I am very interesting your designs to collect
Hi Mary
I have done very little embroidering in my life but am now looking for simple designs. I am busy crocheting around 16cm Calico Squares with the idea of joining the squares once I’ve done the borders. I want to do a very simple design in the a winter white on top of the beige squares, for a table cloth. Your rose design will work well and if you have any others similar to them I would appreciate it if you let me know where to find them.
Thanks for the rose design I will try it out but am not sure yet which stitches to use. I guess I will play around until I find the perfect stitch(es)
Groete
Suzette
Hi, Suzette – there’s a “pattern” link in the top menu here on the site, that takes you to this page: https://needlenthread.wpengine.com/patterns where you can find all the hand embroidery patterns I have available on Needle ‘n Thread. Hope that helps!! By the way, a simple line stitch (like stem stitch) would work great with this pattern! Best, Mary
i love this site!!!
I want to learn all types of embroidery stitches
Muito bom, gostei muito.