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  • FRENCH KNOTS

    FRENCH KNOTS!  There are a total of about 11,300 FRENCH KNOTS!  Kerry is graciously sharing this gorgeous example of embroidery today.  It was created as a gift several years ago for her Mom who chose the background fabric. Now this project required a lot of patience and time.  She tells me it took 60 hours…

  • TEMARI

    Another TEMARI ball to add to my growing collection. I have mentioned before that Verna, a fellow Canadian loves creating Temari balls. The pattern is Interlocking Spindles by Barbara Seuss. Verna used size 8 perle cotton in the following colours Colour #28 Colour #134 Colour #19 was also used which was a bold yellow has…

  • WOOL APPLIQUE

    More of Kathleen’s WOOL APPLIQUE version of Bloomin Beauties today.  This is Block #20!  If you have been following this project you will already know this is the Bloomin Beauties pattern by Kim Schaefer available in Kim’s Flower Festival book.  Kathleen has used a heavy black flannel for her background and a variety of Colour…

  • EMBELLISHING

    Today I have two examples provided by customers of EMBELLISHING ideas. Sheila recently purchased this mini-quilt from Jen at KNJ Studios.  It measures 17” x 10”. She embellished the carrot top with some of my ric rac.  She then added some carrot tops using Kreinik 1/16” ribbon and also added this to highlight some root…

  • TUBULAR RIBBON

    Introducing TUBULAR RIBBON.  I have not had this product in stock for quite some time but decided to dye up a small selection of colours for those of you who have requested it. TUBULAR RIBBON is a knitted rayon tube approximate 5 mm in width (3/16 of an inch).  It can be used flat as…

  • NEEDLEPOINT

    A gorgeous example of NEEDLEPOINT today.  As you all know, I love to receive photographs of projects created using my threads so you can imagine how thrilled I was to receive this.  Barb stitched this lovely design using several Colour Complements threads.  The pattern is a design by Laura Perin called Ribbons with Monogram originally…