Mastering Straight Stitches: A Beautiful Autumn Sampler Tutorial
Our featured stitch sampler shows just what you can achieve when you use even basic straight stitches!
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Autumn Palette Perfection: 4 Essential Fall Colors for Your Needlework
The transition from summer to autumn brings a beautiful display of nature’s warmest colours, and today, we’re highlighting the stunning and timeless shades of a fall colour palette.
Blue And Yellow Palette
Our ongoing Ginkgo Needlepoint pattern series, where Dominique continues to explore new colour palettes and techniques with each pattern, bringing different interpretations to this existing design. She has been using different canvases and stitch techniques and experimenting with various strands of floss to see how this pattern transforms with each change. Dominique used a contrasting…
Crazy Quilting Tools
Similar to ribbons, trims and laces there are a vast array of crazy quilting tools available. Let’s start with marking pens. How to Use Marking Pens as a Useful Quilting Tool Through the years I’ve experimented with a number of marking pens, many of which have provided disappointing results. Finally, after considerable experimentation, I started…
Needle Garage
- back in stock mid April
- kit includes hand dyed threads and PDF pattern including finishing instructions
- features a colourful palette of EIGHT different colour combinations
- PDF pattern emailed once purchase in complete
- a delightful counted canvas project
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Simply Stitches Thread Kit
- Custom dyed thread kit
- PDF pattern is available for purchase at Freda’s Fancy Stitching
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Blue Green Palette
Embroidery is an art form where colour choices can truly transform the look and feel of your work. One combination I personally love is the blue-green palette. In this blog post, I will explore this nature-inspired colour combination using some of the colours in my collection—colours #47, #73, and #162. This palette is perfect for…
Stitching on Black mono canvas
Today’s Ginkgo leaf card is stitched on black mono canvas. While many of our samples on the blog use white canvas, which is easier to source, we wanted to highlight the striking contrast of using black. Although stitching on black mono canvas can be a bit challenging, the result is well worth the effort for…
Decorative Trims For Crazy Quilts
Today we have an abundance of decorative trims and embellishments to choose from when designing our crazy quilts. Let’s explore some of these options. What About Lace When I select my fabrics, I generally choose decorative trims including laces that will coordinate or complement my main fabric choices. Initially, I would pick up bits of…
Halloween Inspired Needlepoint Design
“Brew” is the third design in our Mug Series. It’s a fun, Halloween-inspired needlepoint design and it features a festive pattern that captures all of the spooky things that embody Halloween. Think witches brew!! Hopefully this series keeps your creative juices flowing with the introduction of each design. Brew features a unique holiday theme, perfect…
