How strange it is

Stitched by mel.sundquist

I'm loving this quote from a Neutral Milk Hotel song, very gorgeously embroidered by Mel. Her embroidery is based on a print by Fionn Breen. Beautiful work, Mel!

Fabulous Filling Stitches

 

I must admit that I seldom use the Split Stitch as a filling stitch but this wonderful example embroidered by Refabulous. shows it can do the job perfectly!

The filling stitches I most often choose, not taking into account  'semi filling stitches' like the Seed Stitch, are probably the Satin Stitch , the Long and Short Stitch and the Brick Stitch. What's your favourite filling stitch?

Fab ferret!

From Marisa Bogg

In the title of this photo it says it is a ferret, but it reminds me of a panther - like an Inca type panther. Thpse spots and tail led me in that direction. Anyway, ferret or panther, it doesn't take away the fact that this is pretty cute and the stitching is fab!

Embroidering with wax paper

My 4-year-old starts preschool in a few days. Her name needs to be on her backpack and I was itching to embroider it. I used wax paper as a tear-away stabilizer substitute.

Before:

I printed out her name.

Put a piece of wax paper over the name and traced with a Sharpie.

Pinned the wax paper to the backpack.

Started stitching. I used "old faithful", the split stitch.
I noticed that it helped to move the left pin over as I completed each letter. It helped stabilize the wax paper in the middle.
Tear away the wax paper. It tore away very easily. I used tweezers to get any bits of paper that were stuck.


The end result: