Freehand embroidery

“freehand embroidery by melissa de meuleneire”

Francesca Kemp Textile Art creates the most beautiful pieces with freehand machine embroidery. Here, Francesca explains why she loves these three weights: 🧵80wt – Her latest addiction offers a fine finish, perfect for sketching with thread and allowing a slow build-up, ideal for fluffier projects. 🧵50wt – A trusted outliner, her go-to choice until recently. 🧵40wt – Excellent for fonts and color flooding, adding boldness and a needed pop against strong colors like orange.

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Smaller textile artworks. Available framed and mounted.

Embroidery has been around forever — the earliest surviving pieces of this craft are Scythian, dated to between the 5th and 3rd centuries BCE. Virtually every culture has some form of it in their textile art history.

A scrap of fabric that I was practicing a new transfer technique on. I think it's gonna work.

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Katie is a textile artist based in East Sussex, creating, designing and teaching. A published author of 'Layered and Stitched Pictures' published by Search Press, Katie loves equipping others with their own textiles skills. Specialising in freehand machine embroidery, applique, painting and needle felting, Katie has a unique technique and life like style, creating beautiful mixed media artworks.