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A Regency-Era Doll Dress to Sew and Embroider
Craft an heirloom for a beloved doll.
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Craft an heirloom for a beloved doll.
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This eBook is a very rich resource for all the sewing techniques you really need to make couture garments from your handwoven cloth.
Beautiful handwovens deserve beautiful finishes!
Handstitching is the perfect complement to handweaving, as demonstrated in this top woven on a rigid-heddle loom. Weave two long strips to create four panels that are joined and then shaped with strategic tucking before decorative stitching is added. You’ll love wearing your one-of-a-kind, bespoke top.
Indulge your love of knitting, embroidering, and felting with this fun pillow design. Have fun experimenting with texture and dimension.
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Find out about needlework education throughout time and different cultures, from hand-to-hand knowledge to twenty-first century virtual classes. See what you’ll learn!
Eighteenth-century ecclesiastical vestments were the inspiration for this project, although the motifs were modified so that they would work on this smaller scale object.
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A classic Moorish motif with gorgeous filling patterns that are composed of long, thin, rectangle-framed segments, with diagonal lines of tiny squares.
Worked in silk thread on even-weave linen, this pinkeep is stuffed with wool yarn and features the tree motif peculiar to Nantucket needlework samplers.
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The fine art of knotted needle lace can be readily worked anytime and anywhere and once you’re familiar with the basics, the work progresses faster than most other needle-lace techniques.
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Our globe, with place names such as Chinese Empire, New Holland, and New Amazonia, is based on globes available between 1800 and 1840.
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Among the over 190 patterns in this collection are numerous borders, centers, corners, flowers and leaves, plus a variety of applique and smocking patterns.
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In this video, Sara Bixler will show you how you can use hemstitching to add interest to the body of your fabric, as a way to enhance handwoven lace, as a lace technique in itself, and as a way to add color and graphic elements to your weaving.
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