Month: July 2014

Feather Stitch

Feather Stitching

Needle’nThread.com

You can see how long the stitches are here, to get the right angle going into the feather.… Read more

Orange Tree and Forget-Me-Nots, silk ribbon flowers

Orange Tree

For a panel of a Di van NieKerk design, detailed instructions are presented in her book: Ribbon Embroidery and Stumpwork .

The weaved basket: (Stitched using Perle 8, Sea Sands, color number 70 purchased from Di van NieKerk website).

Directions … Read more

Hydrangeas and Wisteria, silk ribbon flowers

Hydrangeas and Wisteria
Hydrangeas and Wisteria

Though I have Ms. Niekerk’s detail instruction book for this design panel I went to her website and viewed her tutorial on stumpwork Hydrangeas. Her instructions suggested using 2-3 different color stranded threads. I choose to use … Read more