Gold Work

Introduction to Goldwork. This kit teaches you how to couch a cord around a bumblebee to define it, how to cut and lay purl wires and how to cut and apply chippings to give texture to the bees body. The kit comes with all materials included. You will need an embroidery hoop to fit the project, cotton

Quick Sewing Tip: Add Goldwork Dove Appliques to Red Stoles for Pentecost - Simple little trick to transform a simple plain stole into an elegant Pentecost Stole with Goldwork Dove appliques.

In England, I was fortunate enough to have two private lessons with Nicola Jarvis on goldwork techniques. These few days have helped clarify some things and teach me others that I didn't know. Often I learn from a book or a web site how to do certain techniques and more often than not the instructio

Good morning, sweeties! Happy Valentine's Day! I really wanted to send everyone a big bunch of exuberant roses for Valentine's Day today! But since it's also Ash Wednesday, I was thinking maybe it was a good opportunity to share some ecclesiastical embroidery with you. Wonder of wonders! I

So today at about 4:30pm, I finished all the embroidery work for my RSN Goldwork piece. Pretty excited to say the least, especially after the previous 2 modules took a bit of time after I got home! All I have to do now is mount it and send it off for accessment. Yippee! I thought I would share a couple notes on the "challenges" of this piece: - The intersections where the blossoms overlapped the stem were especially challenging because it meant that the cutwork needed to meet the pearl purl…

Whenever I hear from Larissa Borodich, a stitching friend from Moscow, I always know I’m in for a visual feast! Her goldwork and pearl embroidery is always sumptuous, meticulously worked, and downright beautiful! Larissa’s latest piece – like the last stylized pomegranate she sent photos of – comes from a design I shared on Needle ...

The expression of ideas and concepts through symbols, both in arts and science is represented by objects and signs. The embroidery of India has been acclaimed the world over as an exquisite handicraft.

Real moss isn't meant to live in a glass jar. It likes to creep up things, fill in cracks and spread out. In my experience, and I've tried the terrarium thing a few times, it dies. So if you don't...

On Monday, we chatted about setting up this slate frame for a goldwork embroidery project that I’m starting. The project is quite simple in concept, as you can see below. Once the frame was set up, I gathered supplies so I could jump to the fun part as quickly as possible! These are the supplies ...

I have been able to do so little, for so long. Today is graduation day for me, in a way :) It was 8 weeks ago today that I had surgery on my wrist. I can now be without the brace as long as I am sitting down, and there is no chance of me falling, and causing re-injury. So, when I am out and about, I do have to wear it for another 4 weeks, but the best part is that I can once again !!!!!!!SEW!!!!!!! It's such an amazing sense of freedom. I jumped the gun, just a bit as I took a wonderful…