Freehand embroidery

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

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.

"Tomoko Ogawa's sewing machine work is full of playfulness. Just looking at the stitches and collages, which are sewn as if enjoying chance, makes your...

Paint & Stitch

Saturday, I took a class from Dawn Grunwald on making fabric jewelry. She shared a couple ideas that help make free motion machine stitchin...

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.