Stump work

This morning, I'm excited to share with you a beautiful guest post for you from Celeste Chalasani. Celeste will chat about what inspires her stumpwork projects and show us some of her favorite stumpwork embroidery pieces. She'll also share a great design tip to help you come up with your own stum

Learn Stumpwork Embroidery techniques including padding with felt, raised embroidery stitches, adding slips and creating wired needlework petals

Just look at this exquisite lace leaf. It was made for the Bernina tutorial written by Carolyn Sinclair. It it quite stunning and now you can make one too. You will need some special supplies, but they can be purchased … Read More ...

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Susan Porter, stump work, from embellish embroidery

Throwback Thursday. This is one of my favourite pieces. I wanted to try stumpwork technique to recreate Cicely Mary Barker’s Flower Fairy. Actually, the whole piece looks like an opened book. When I was mounting this piece, the Duchess of Cambridge (Yes! It’s Catherine!) came to visit us at Royal School of Needlework. Before we […]

Complete List of Ribbon Winners | 2014 Exemplary Booklet (click on any image to see a larger view and read the artist’s statement, and to step through a slide show of each category) Best of Show Aw…

Finally – a finish of sorts! The stumpwork elements for Late Harvest are all stitched up and ready to go! Not that they have anywhere to go yet – I still have to finish the left half of the main part of the project. But it’s always nice to accomplish a minor goal, isn’t it? ...

This is one of the designs I have created for the online class I will be teaching in September through the Online Crazy Quilting Lessons at Maureen's Vintage Acquisitions. The three weeks' class will also offer a revised version of my previous daisy wreath design and complete, detailed instructions for embroidering both designs. Ever since Maureen first wrote to me a few weeks ago, asking if I would teach a class through her shop, I need to pinch myself every day, to make sure that this is…