Needle weaving

You might remember that, last autumn, I was fiddling around a bit with some fun needle woven fillings that can be used to add color, texture, and pattern to large areas of embroidery. Needle weaving is pretty much just weaving embroidery thread on the surface of fabric. In concept, it's not too

My latest favorite thing has been referred to as many things . . . Needle weaving, teneriffe embroidery, pin weaving, and more. What I'm trying to do is encourage weavers and fiber artists to think small and scale down their weaving. This makes many forms of needle weaving portable. It may not be the quickest…

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Playing with embroidery stitches is Good for You. It's good for you, like sunshine and fresh air are good for you. Or fruit and vegetables. Or ... chocolate... When you allow yourself to dabble about and play with stitches, you learn a lot! Besides learning just the construction of a stitch

I do mend some things as almost all of my clothes are thrift store finds.not always with the best of practices though. Just one of many 'lost' skills ;).

Pin weaving is a simple way of creating a small woven piece without the use of a loom. It is weft faced weaving, that is, the warp thread will not show on the finished design. A design is created on graph paper and taped to a piece of foam core board. Pins are placed at the top and bottom of the design. A strong warp thread (waxed linen) is wrapped taughtly around each pin in a continuous motion. Weaving of the weft thread is done with a tapestry needle. Weft threads can be nearly any fiber…

Last Saturday, I finally tried something that I've been curious about: pin weaving!

I made a start on translating some of my recent watercolour doodles into stitch. Spring Days in progress I’ve applied some tiny fragments (mostly about an inch or two) of hand-dyed silk, cotton, an…