Good morning, my friends! Over the next week, I’ll be giving away a few lovely gifts here on Needle ‘n Thread to put us all in the holiday mood!
Today, we’re going to start with a kit! Read on, and I’ll tell you about the give-away and how to enter.
Ho ho ho! Here we go…
Wildflowers in Wool is a complete embroidery kit featuring 10 full skeins of naturally dyed Eco Vita crewel wool, a beautiful piece of linen twill with the design pre-transferred, full instructions, and needles.
All you need on hand to complete the project is a hoop and some scissors!
This is a great little kit for introducing yourself (or any stitcher) to wool embroidery. The variety of simple stitches work up fairly quickly, making for a satisfactory project that’s perfect for beginners and beyond.
Give-Away Guidelines
If you would like to enter this give-away, please do the following:
1. Leave a comment on this blog post (you can follow this link directly to the correct place to leave your comment).
2. In your comment, answer the following question:
What’s your favorite needlework style or technique and why?
(You must answer the question to be included in the give-away!)
3. No anonymous comments – please leave a recognizable name or nickname – and please make certain that your email address on the comment form is correct. We will contact the winner by email.
4. Leave your comment by Monday, December 16, 2024, 7:00 AM CST. I will draw a random winner on Monday morning and announce the winner that day, when I post the next Give-Away.
This give-away is open to anyone. We will ship overseas if the winner is outside the US. However, winners are responsible for any customs or duties.
Please note that your comment may not appear immediately. Comments are moderated, to keep the comment area free of spam. It will eventually show up!
Here Comes Christmas Sale – Almost Over!
Just a note to remind you that our shop-wide sale ends tonight (Friday, Dec 13) at midnight, CST.
If you’d like to take advantage of it, hop on over to the shop! The discount is automatically applied to your cart at checkout.
We have Wildflowers in Wool (among other kits) in stock and ready to ship – and on sale – if you’re looking for it!
My favorite needlework is crossstitch with a close second being Hardänger. I can carry my projects just about anywhere. We travel a lot and stitching keeps me from being the “backseat driver” while my spouse is driving. The trips are more pleasant!
I love all needlework styles! But lately, I’ve been enjoying “slow stitch” with no particular plan, just the rhythm of making marks on cloth with thread.
I am new to need work and do not have a favorite style. I have only been creating for three years. I do know that French knots are evil. lol
My favorite style is improv because first off I have freedom to create and second I don’t feel like I’ve messed up. I love patterns and use them for my base but almost always change it up some way.
Merry Christmas
I am an embroidery fan, but have tried tapestry work. The meditative focus needed for this work brings me a deep peace. Currently exploring Jacobean motifs. What drew me to your site was the excellent indexed, stitch tutorials. They have strengthened my practice so much! Thank you for sharing.
Julia
It’s hard for me to pin down a single favorite needlework style! I have done so many of them and enjoy almost everything I’ve done. I think right now my favorite is probably gold-work – especially Or Nue. I took an online class for this from the RSN in September and had so much fun with it!
I have found counted cross stitch to be my favorite. I have over the years branched out and changed thread color and or type and t0 some extent created my own samplers. Sometimes it’s just easy to follow a pattern and not have to think about what comes next. I have tried gold-work, canvas work, surface embroidery, hardanger as well but always seem to go back to cross stitch.
Hi Mary,
I really love it all. Sometimes I think I have needlework ADHD because I just skip around. Right now I am into Needlepoint/counted canvas.
Thanks for the give away. This will be a lovely surprise for someone.
Barb
I enjoy two different needlework styles for two contradictory reasons. I like doing crewel embroidery because I like the feel of wool thread and the way it makes the design look as if it is 3D and lifted from the fabric. I also enjoy needlepoint as well, but with needlepoint, I prefer untwisted cotton or silk threads because of their smooth, flat appearance. Maybe that’s because the designs on needlepoint are somewhat pixelated due to the canvas mesh? Not sure. But what I do know for sure is that I love needlework!
I love quilting and doing small embroideries to use on greetings cards. I can’t choose which I like best
Lovely give away thanks. Am still learning and experimenting. Working with wool certainly has a different feel to it. Hardanger mount mellick are favorites!
Hi Mary, I love hand embroidery. I have followed your site for years now and love your ideas and teaching. You are always giving us new things to try. I want to do more Jacobean style and to learn thread painting.
My favorite technique is needlepainting. I love how it completes your projects with dimension and realistic shades (as found in nature). Then for added touches I love to include metallic threads and beads. Second choice would be whitework with color… Ohhh be still my heart❣
I love embroidery and learning new stitches. It adds the extra finish to projects and reminds me of my Grandmothers that used embroidery to decorate their simple belongings during the depression era.
Gorgeous! What a great design
I love to embroider. Fun! Such a beautiful design.
My favorite needlework technique is counted cross stitch. The repetitive nature of making x’s on fabric is very relaxing for me and I enjoy seeing the pattern slowly emerge after each stitching session.
I am a beginner. I paint in acrylics and I always say, embroidery is like painting only with threads. You were the first site, and still the best, that I visited when looking for help. I’m not sure what you mean by style, but I’ll say it’s vintage Christmas design I like. Technique, well I’m learning from you, I seem to enjoy doing the French knots. Hope this is the correct criteria for the contest. Your back story is interesting, leaving a professional teaching career to follow a dream. What an inspiration.
I like all different kind of stitching, embroidery, free style, hand quilting embroidery.
How do you choose❤️
My favourite type of embroidery is using wool felt. I love the dimension that the felt gives to the stitches and the colours that are vibrant.
My favourite embroidery technique is surface embroidery,which I do to embellish my applique quilts. Merry Christmas!
I’ve cross stitched and done canvas work for many years. Lately (last 5 years) I’ve come to find wool applique which lead me to surface embroidery. I didn’t realize I knew how to embroider! But lots of the stitches are the same as wool applique. Right now cross stitch still tops but wool and surface embroidery are a very close second.
Love you newsletters, even when I didn’t realize I knew how to embroider!
Gail
MerryChristmas! Appreciate your gracious giveaway.
Hard to say what my favorite needlework style is because I like most all of it.
Favored is regular embroidery – used on any item to gift someone. This year I made sil and cousin a hussif. Required hand sewing, with embroidery for embellishment.
Last year I had the two pockets off an apron my mom had made my dad more 60 years ago. Pocket pieces were the perfect size to make into hot pads…so I did! The original pockets had a simple outline embroidery of a Mexican, sombrero and basket. By the time I was finished, it was a completely different, colorful filled-in piece. When given to brother, he said they were too nice to use, they were hanging them on the wall. 🙂
My favourite needlework technique is cross stitch because it spans such a wide variety of countries. I really enjoy the history behind designs and cultures.
Merry Christmas, Mary and Anna!
My favorite embroidery style is realistic thread painting of botanicals.
Best wishes for 2025
Sharon K.
I love working on linen, with wool thread, and or silk. I love stitches that are complex and sometimes take two stitches to create one. I’m 78 and have a slight trimmer in my left hand.(thank goodness it’s my non-dominant) I’ve been a hand needleworker for over 50 years, but I love Needle and Thread because I learned something new every week. Sometimes I’m sent off on a resource and go down many rabbit holes, but always come out the other side very satisfied. Mary always.” GETS her adoring public” right where they are, novice or master stitcher. What a grand quality to have.
Caws and Flaps from your fan,Mama Crow ⬛
I love working on reproduction samples, especially the ones with specialty stitches. Amazing to think a lot of these were done by young schoolgirls.
My favorite needlework style is classic stitches using DMC or Anchor floss. I find nice photos or clip art, mostly of flowers and ferns, and convert them into my own patterns. The best technique I have learned from this website is how to combine threads of different colors to get very nice effects.
My favorite style of embroidery is definitely in the crewel family, worked either in wool, floss or perle cotton. I enjoy the many different stitches and it’s applicable to everything from a simple picture to home textiles, clothing, shoes, bags, you name it.
I think I’m actually a jack of all trades and master of none style needle worker but my favorite this year seems to be the smaller embroidery type kits . I have 11 grand children and 6 great grand babies and this year I decided, kinda late, that I wanted to make each of the girls (8) a small embroidered piece in a finished hoop for their rooms. I am pleased how they are turning out as are their parents who have also requested I make them one ..That’s for another Christmas and another time.
Such a beautiful project, and I’d love to try the Vita Eco threads. Crewel is right up there in my list of favorites, but I like a lot of techniques, including many types of whitework, blackwork, silk shading, and canvas work, and too many more to name.
Mary my favorite is surface embroidery. I love the options available. So many beautiful fabrics and threads.
I falling in love with crewel again. One of my very first projects was a crewel pillow that my grandmother helped me with when I was 9 or 10. She’d teach me a stitch by working one of the motifs, and then I’d complete all the rest of the motifs that used that stitch. I’ve got a big project ready to start, but I’m trying smaller ones for now until I get the hang of it again.
My favorite needlework technique is crewel embroidery. I especially like Jacobean crewel designs. I still have a lot of practicing to do!
Overall, I’m quite fond of white work in all its variations. But then I get the urge for some color, and I do vivid flowers – like this kit!
And please don’t forget that we’re holding our breathes waiting for pictures of your new storefront and your big party!
Merry Christmas, Mary.
Embroidery is my favorite thread work…but there used to be other contenders.
Alas, I gave up knitting after I’d made the last pair of socks/shawl for a loved one and global weather suggested it stridently. And I gave up quilting after sewing machine work hurt my back too much. (Only swimming laps is allowed to wreck my body!)
Through all the years of my life, hand-sewing remains as my lone, constant companion.
I couldn’t be happier.
Favorite is hard, because I like so many kinds of needle work. I enjoy needlepoint, crewel, really surface embroidery of almost any kind. I love the Bayeux tapestry stitch. I love blackwork. My least favorite, probably because I am not good at it, is thread painting.
What’s your favorite needlework style or technique and why? My favorite needlework style is really both cross stitch and embroidery. I love to embroidery and embellish projects with a variety of stitches. I tend to lien towards projects that are very involved, but do enjoy more than ever learning something new. Wishing everyone the very best this holiday season.
What’s your favorite needlework style or technique and why?
Although I am not great at it, I enjoy Brazilian embroidery. The results look so elegant, and I love the shine on rayon threads that are often used!
My favorite is embroidery. I enjoy watching the design come to life as the thread is stitched
Hi Mary. I have been embroidering for many years. I’ve stitched almost every style. lately I have been stitching Japanese Embroidery also called Bunka. It is done with a punch needle but its finish is smooth. There is a lot of blending of colors. The finished EmbroideryIs beautiful.
Thanks for your newsletter. Happy Holidays!
My favourite embroidery technique is crewel work, particularly where various stitches/threads are combined to make combination stitches which give additional variety and depth. It is even more effective if appliqué is also thrown into the mix, but you do need to take care that the resultant fabric is not too thick to sticth through!
Although I enjoy crochet , I think I probably appreciate crewel embroidery more…
Judy Lawrance
Tallahassee, Florida
My favorite is embroidery. I enjoy watching the design come to life as the thread is stitched.
I haven’t embroidered any way but straight embroidery
My favorite needlework style thread painting by using the long and short stick to create shadows and highlights. Additional stitches can be used as needed to create the design.
My favorite needlework is freestyle embroidery as embellishment on wall quilts, earlier on garments. I learned stitches and stitch combos from Montana’s book Elegant Stitches and an old brochure from the 1960s I picked up as a teenager. I like to add beads, too. I guess it’s crazy quilt stitching but I don’t make that kind of quilt—just ordinary designs like Baltimore/Whig Rose-type appliqués and pieced blocks like Delectable Mountains. I’m learning sashiko stitching and think freestyle embroidery would mix well with it and boro (patching) stitching. But I like following traced and printed pattern stitching on dish towels, esp. the great designs Mary Corbet does.
I really love void work and 3D work. Also cross stitch. How can you make us pick a favorite!? But I am attempting to answer the question so I can be in the drawing for the kit, which I would loooooooove to have.
My favourite overall is probably canvas work—grids appeal to the mathematician in me. Plus you get to use so many beautiful threads and stitches.
However I seem to be trending back to crewel and surface stitching. That’s where I started so many years ago.
Then there’s hardanger .
But NOT cross stitch
Thank you Mary for your wonderful giveaways.
My favorite style of embroidery is crewel. I just love the different styles of stitches. Wool is my favorite yarn/thread of choice.
My favourite needlework technique is embroidery and it’s so versatile and varied. I feel very relaxed when embroidering even the simplest motif.
It’s hard to pick just one. I love hand embroidery and counted Crossstitch. They are beautiful and they calm my soul. About 40 years ago, in California, I was privileged to take classes from a wonderful teacher named Vreni Landolt. She was from Zürich, Switzerland. Her father was the curator of a museum and she and her mother had repaired the tapestries. I could listen to her speak for hours about all the things she had seen and done She was an expert in everything that included yarn or thread. She taught Crosstitch, embroidery, weaving, crochet, and many more things. I learned basic embroidery from my Mom at a young age and from Mrs. Landolt I gained a love of all the many stitches and ways you could embellish it. Your beautiful stitches remind me of her.
Lina Britton
I enjoy freestyle/surface embroidery because of the flexibility it affords me in interpreting designs and because one can create 3-D effects.
My favorite has been cross-stitch for many years, but I’m thinking this next year I’ll try something new. Not sure just what yet . . . I’ve tried crewel and wasn’t very good at it, but that was years and years ago. I’m going to get out my long-neglected copy of The Stitches of Creative Embroidery and see what looks appealing.
My favourite needlework technique is embroidery as I just love the great variety of stitches to fit all moods, project ideas and eventualities. I am totally relaxed when I embroider and forget the things which are bugging me. A stress free activity.
I’d love to win the kit.
Thank you.
Nonx
My grandmother taught me the basic stitches about sixty years ago. I returned to embroidery about ten years ago. It brings great peace to me. Although I quilt and do many sewing projects, I always have an embroidery task at hand. I guess my favorite style is traditional and the many ways the stitches can be manipulated. I have really enjoyed the projects you share and the way you teach each stitch. Thank you for sharing all you do.
My favorite needlework at the moment is bead embroidery. It just makes me so excited to imagine all of the infinite possibilities that I can create with a batch of beads.
My favorite needlework style or technique is: surface embroidery. So many stitchs, types of fiber, color and ways to use them. Just use your imagination to create something beautiful.
Thank you for this opportunity.
Blackwork but I don’t do it nearly as much as I would like.
My favorite needlework technique is needlepoint. I enjoy anything on an even weave fabric.
My favorite embroidery is crewel embroidery. I love to see the piece develop as I go on. Crewel just brings the elements to life. Lately I’ve been doing simple embroidery on children’s clothes. It adds so much to the outfit and is pretty quick to work up.
Thanks for the giveaway but mostly for your posts that provide so much inspiration and tips.
What’s your favorite needlework style or technique and why?
I love to stitch samplers, whether on linen or canvas. i love to see the various stitches and textures coming together.
Woo-hoo! I love a give away!
I also love smocking. That’s my favorite type of needlework. I love the technique itself, the rhythmic meditative repetition of the stitches. But, I love that it’s a functional type of needlework. Not only is smocking decorative, sometimes it shapes the fabric into a garment (like a bishop dress) or it adds flexibility (like a smocked yoke dress.)
I also love hand embroidery of a beautiful floral design, which is why it would be splendid to win this kit.
Pulled thread speaks to me. I’m learning many different stitches and it just amazes me that so many designs are structured with a needle, thread and fabric by pulling stitches.
Needle point is easier for me and I seem to be more able to follow the wanderings of my imagination.
My favorite needlework style or technique is embroidery. I especially love to find old patterns that I can use on pillowcases and dish towels. I like all the traditional stitches too, and pretty much stick to the easy ones as my hands and eyes are getting old, just like the rest of me. I do often change the colors and kinds of stitches to give my work an original twist. I find it almost magical what one can do with just colored thread and a piece of fabric. Recently I have been exploring freehand embroidery, and even have a couple of sweatshirts that I embroidered without any pattern.That was quite fun, and I like them enough to even wear them in public. I like to think of needlework as my form of painting and I love making “thread pictures”.
My favorite needlework technique is cross stitch. It’s simple enough I can converse or watch streaming while I stitch. It also calms my mind and body.
I don’t have a favorite style since I’m a beginner. I am drawn to embroidery and cross-stitch kits and knitting.
I love embroidery the best of all needlework, even needlepoint which is what I do most. A lovely fabric, a little needle, some pretty threads and a hoop, and I’m lost in my work as well as any good book. Thanks for your generosity Mary❣️❤️
My favorite needlework style is embroidery. I am currently working through some of the wreaths from last year’s Christmas stitch-along and the Key to My Heart project. So. Much. Fun!
I get great satisfaction from doing the turkey stitch – I love how something 2 dimensional becomes 3 dimensional. So fun!
the one that I always come back to is cross stitching. But, I also love Hardanger and Schwalm for their timelessness.
Merry Christmas from S.C.!
My favorite type of embroidery is Brazilian. Every design has something new and different and the dimensionality and texture are just a wonderful sight to see.
crewel embroidery
With wool I can my more creative. I like raised stitches to give the piece a more “live like” feel.
It is hard to pick a favorite, but crewel embroidery would be my all time favorite because it is so soft looking when finished. It is like painting a picture with wool.
My favorite embroidery technique is design printed on fabric because that way I have a guid for correct dimensions but can fill in design with whatever stitches and colors my imagination chooses!
Lovely flowers. My fav technique is anything that involves beads and metallic threads!
My favorite embroidery technique is design printed on fabric because that way I have a guide for correct dimensions but can fill in design with whatever stitches and colors my imagination chooses!
I think my favorite technique is cross-stitch but that’s mostly because that is what I’ve done the most of. I look at goldwork and stumpwork and crewel and think that I’d love to try it, but I don’t have the confidence.
Thank you for the giveaway.
My favorite embroidery technique is invariably the technique I happen to be using when asked— so today it is goldwork. There is something magical in the effect, almost as if your needlework turns into jewelry.
Happy holidays to you.
I love all kinds of embroidery-crewel, embroidery on wool, cotton embroidery in linen. And I love needlepoint. Your emails are inspiring and instructive. Thank you for all you do for us out here in the hinterlands!
I love Mary Corbet website, it’s always be so helpful and inspiring. I have learnt so much and still do.
My favourite style of embroidery is white work.
I don’t think it’s fair to ask which is a favourite as I love all embroidery.
Stem stitch is a favorite because while simple it is very versatile in applications.
Crazy quilts are my favorite project because you can experiment with many techniques like surface embroidery, beading, stumpwork, and needle painting.
I love your lovely embroidery and admire the patience it requires. I am a quilter and weaver foremost, but I always have handwork or knitting for early mornings or evenings watching TV with my husband. I have done crewel and ‘regular’ embroidery in the past and your blog has inspired me to get back into it. My favorite handwork at present would have to be the more complicated cross stitch kits such as Dimensions Gold as they require precision and can take weeks and weeks to complete.
Crewel work, then needlepoint-oh but there is cross-stitch Oh My hard decision! But my favorite place to visit yours Mary!❤️
I like pieces that touch my heart, bringing back a memory, a story, or an inspiration. The flowers in the kit remind me of my grandfather’s colorful flower gardens.
Hello Mary,
I’ve enjoyed reading about your recent projects so much! My favorite needlework style is – whatever I’m stitching at the moment! But if I had to choose I’d say crewel embroidery. The motifs are SO creative… I’ve had fun tracing basic outlines and choosing filling stitches as I go. Last year I embroidered the yoke of a loden jumper with a varigated red sock yarn, adding some beads here and there for sparkle, and totally fell in love. I hope to make another one next year.
June House
My favorite needlework style is embroidery. I’ve tried others, but embroidery seems to lend itself to being more creative. There are so many different stitches you can use when trying to depict a subject. To me, embroidery can be used to make something more life like.
I love cross stitch — I have for decades, since it enjoyed popularity around 1990. While I love all needlework, it still is my favorite. It is SO easy to do, too.
Counted Thread cross stitch is my favorite needlework style. My stitches are much more even with cross stitch than with other embroidery. I do love the other embroideries, I just don’t think I am as good at it.
How to pick just one? I guess love needle weaving & needle lace best. I love the patterns and textures you can achieve with these techniques. I love the way they change depending upon the thread I use. I love how they play in conjunction with other stitches and techniques and that they can be padded or left solitary. I love that there is scope for so much creativity with them. I don’t think there’s a project I’ve completed recently where I don’t employ one or both in the work. It’s true love.
My favorite needlework style/technique to work on is counted cross stitch and most particularly, samplers and that style. However, more and more I’m enjoying surface embroidery a la Needle n Thread and have started to really enjoy and appreciate the look of added beadwork. I have a few of the kits that – ahem! – I haven’t started yet. But I did finish and loved working on the Bee Jeweled pin cushion. I couldn’t get enough beads on that thing! It was so much fun. Thanks, Mary, for all you do!
I think my favourite is goldwork because the metal threads adds a richness to the project. I love combining techniques and have a project in mind that will combine surface embroidery with stumpwork with some gold thread high lights.
Thanks for the Christmas give aways.
Over the years I have done all kinds of needlework. Right now I’m back to embroidery. I love needlework, because I can sit in a chair and watch a movie.
I am new to embroidery at 72 years young. I love surface hand embroidery. I am keeping my mind active by learning and trying to remember new stitches. The feel of the thread and the fabric, the repetition and sound of stitching have a very meditative quality for me. Embroidery requires my focus and attention which is a distraction from other stresses. I feel a sense of community through Facebook, blogs and other social media. Although it is more about the journey than the end product, finishing and admiring my completed project brings me joy.
My favorite style of embroidery is simple stem stitch. I learned it as a child and it’s nostalgic and soothing to outline something with this versatile stitch. Love the giveaways!! Thank you for being an amazing resource on needlework 🙂
Favorite needlework? I love working with wool because it covers a lot of surface area in a short amount of time. But, I really love padded satin stitch with standard floss because I do it well and looks amazing.
Pick me!!
I like Blackwork, because of how it can convey an image so sparingly in just one color.
The wildflower kit is lovely. Hope Im lucky!
I really enjoy complicated, technically challenging designs with stitches I haven’t done before …… Especially if there are beads or other accessories to add to the piece. It’s so satisfying to complete a design and feel a real sense of accomplishment.
My favorite needlework style is counted cross stitch because I like working puzzles. I go to great lengths to plan the stitches such that the back looks almost as good as the front. It takes awhile to finish a project, and my eyes aren’t the greatest anymore, so I don’t do as many as I would like.
I have more than 1 favorite depending on where I am. Embroidery produces the most detailed results and silk thread really shines, but it requires good light, strong magnifying glasses and concentration.
Bargello is easy and the mesh canvas makes it possible to do in a moving car, while watching TV or while talking with friends.
My favorite needlework style is embroidery. I love doing the button hole stitch as it can be done on most anything and looks different based on stitching it close together as a filler stitch, far apart, and it can looks great on curves or points. Thank you for the oppotunity to win the lovely kit.
I think wool applique is so beautiful. I’ve only done a little, and would like more practice. It is pretty forgiving for newbies, too.
Relearning crewel and love it
My favorite needlework style is wool applique/stitching. Most people hate hand work, but I personally enjoy having a needle in my hands to work at my own pace. Merry Christmas.
While I have really been enjoying wool appliqué lately, I think I have to claim my first love as my best love- counted cross stitch. It was taught to me by a dear friend who is no longer here, and it is a lovely way to feel close to her. When I work on unfamiliar stitches to learn them, there is some stress involved as I try to master, or at least reach a certain level of consistency – very much a work in progress. Now, I don’t mind learning. In fact, that is why I enjoy the stitch snippets so much. I get to learn and practice new-to-me stitches and techniques on a relatively small project project with very clear and complete instructions, and I don’t feel overwhelmed by a huge project or an enormous investment. But when I cross stitch, it is pure relaxation. I know what to do, and I know that I do it well. And this comfort has allowed me to experiment with various threads, fabrics, embellishments, and techniques without any stress because of my bedrock comfort with the format. I have the most wonderful floss storage system, and always keep multiple skeins of every DMC color in every form. This gives me immense satisfaction. Who’s afraid of a zombie attack if you have that, plenty of needles, and fabric. I know some people sneer a little at counted cross stitch. But it soothes my soul and fills my life with joy. How can you ask for more?
I actually have two favorites, Whitework Embroidery and Needlepoint. I have been using many of the techniques that you have shown on Needle n Thread to embellish needlepoint canvases. These flowers would be perfect.
My favorite embroidery technique is surface embroidery, with crewel work a close second. Then stump work and gold work.
My favorite hand technique is wool appliqué. I am also a quilter. I love learning new stitches and trying them on my appliqué table runners, pillows and quilt blocks.
I love the basic redwork embroidery! I’ve made many projects over the years and I never get tired of the look
Single line embroidery. I can get pretty detailed on items for everyday use
I don’t have a favorite yet. I’m still learning!
I love crewel, not only because it is fun, but because my grandma taught me.
My favourite needlework style is silk shading because it creates such beautiful pictures which look realistic
Right now I’m using a stash of embroidery thread to do clothing repairs with floral flourishes… the truth is I started doing this because I was too lazy to set up the sewing machine and now find myself a bit addicted to turning a tear or hole into a little scene. My latest is repairing a shell jacket that really should be retired but now has happy flowers over the tears so… how can I get rid of it now even if it isn’t waterproof any more?
I love Embroidery and love learning new stitches. I enjoy your news letters and projects but have not tried any yet. Still trying to learn more stitches, and also do some knitting.