Folk embroidery

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There's another embroidery book that I've recently become hooked on, quite unlike the fine embroidery I've been 'churning out' recently. I think embroidery is so appealing to me at the moment because of immediate pleasing effect you get, even just after an hour of stitching. It's a beautiful book. Crisp clean imagery and plenty of…

Hungarian embroidery

Earlier this week, I shared a few projects that occupied my embroidery hoop over recent weekends, especially a cheery variety of folk-inspired designs that I had prepared for some (now-cancelled) local classes this summer. I begged you for input on names, and golly! Did you all come through! So M

Crewel

Check out a review of Modern Folk Embroidery by Nancy Nicholson.

Beautiful pattern

I was lucky to have grown up with a tradition of needlework in my family. My mother sews beautifully (she made my wedding dress!) and she cross-stitches and knits as well, so there was always fabric, yarn, and embroidery floss about for me to use. But deeper than that is the tradition I inherited from my father's culture. In the late 1950's my father and grandparents immigrated to Canada from Hungary. They moved into a rural farming community with a strong Hungarian presence and spoke the…

91 years old Agnes Kasparkova turns small village into her art gallery in Czech ! - Album on Imgur