Sharon boggon

Sharon Boggon is an embroidery artist, crazy quilter and author. With needle and threads, she creates works of art on fabrics.

Here is my first TAST effort: Week One- Fly Stitch. Sharon Boggon's Take A Stitch Tuesday challenge to explore various embroidery stitches looks like it's going to be lots of fun. There are over 500 participants from all around the world (wow!) ranging from beginners to very experienced. If you'd like to see what types of things people are stitching, just visit here and click on "Comments" at the top of the post. Then as you scroll down through the comments, you can click on participant's…

Just in case you were thinking that a busy Summer here means that no stitching is taking place, I thought I would pop in to give you a quick update of the TAST stitches that I have worked since my blog break started. The first stitch is week 84 of the TAST Challenge hosted by Sharon Boggon at Pin Tangle and is the Woven Cross Stitch. It is a very pretty stitch which I really enjoyed working. I added a line of stitches to my sampler using variegated silk thread. I really think the variegation…

Index page for a Stitch Dictionary of hand embroidery stitch tutorials. A library of Illustrated step by step instructions for each stitch.

An illustrated tutorial on how to hand embroider crazy quilt seams with tips on where to use these ideas and a free PDF file download

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Illustrated step by step instructions on how work Kikos flower stitch which is a versatile motif that can be adapted easily to use in many sewing projects.

Stitchers Templates Set 1 enables you to create patterns for your crazy quilting and hand embroidery projects. Easy to use, and compact in your sewing box

It is time to move on to block 13, of the I dropped the button box crazy quilt. I know many people enjoy monotone crazy quilt blocks and I hope people will enjoy seeing it in more detail over the next week or so. As you can see there are 6 …

Many people find block 48 interesting when they notice the small bullion roses in the top right hand corner. they are stitched in wool thread. You can get a sense of scale if you compare them with the seed beads on the block. If you click on the image above …