While playing around with silk gimp the other day, I was struck with the inspiration to embroider this tree. Now, trees may seem like fairly mundane, unimportant things, but can you imagine life on this earth without trees? Trees may be common, but they are, at the same time, essential, and in art, throughout history, ...

I designed “15 Trees” with simple composition to give confidence to members of my embroidery course, especially the beginning ones. This piece is a good sample to show that they can create beautiful embroidery pieces by their own ability in every steps of the work. The blank pattern clearly shows simple design shapes, circles, ovals and straight lines, and the pattern background. I gave easy coloring of contrasting combination of two colors, green and pink. It has several shades of green…

An embroidered tree dancing under the light of the new moon. A new series based on the magic of the night. 2 3/4” x 4 3/4”, framed 7 1/2” x 9 1/2” SOLD www.chursinoff.com/kirsten

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When I first started exploring embroidery with any seriousness, one of my favorite resources was this old (as in almost 100 years old) book on ecclesiastical embroidery. Whenever I looked at that old book, I yearned to see the details of the embroidery in those black and white photos. The photos were good – but ...

Medium Three Majestic Pine Trees HOOP SIZE 5 x 7 Stitch count - 27904 Stitch time (approximately) - 35 minutes For best results I recommend 2 layers of wash away stabilizer on the bottom and 1 layer of wash away on the top and bobbin thread to match the top thread. * * * FORMATS PES, DST, EXP, VIP, HUS, XXX, JEF, VP3 **If you don't see your format here, please contact me and I will send you the format you need.** * * * PDF files Thread color-charts included. (Some formats change the colors…