Casalguidi is an embroidery technique, rather than just a stitch. It consists of very heavy raised stem stitch worked in curves, lines, squiggles, or what-have-you (whatever the design dictates), usually with a lighter background of pulled thread stitching. Casalguidi is usually a whitework embroide

Stumpwork Last weekend I went with a friend of mine to a Needlework Class in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was sponsored by the Indianapolis Chapter of the Embroiderer's Guild of America. We belong to the chapter called Needle Artisans of Northwest Indiana (NANI) that meets in Munster. Once a year they have an event called State…

The design for this piece was commissioned by one of my students, Angela Webb. She attended my raised embroidery course at the RSN, where she was inspired to create a large panel in the style of the fabulous designs of the C17th. I designed the piece based on her ideas, which she subsequently worked under[...]

Learn Stumpwork Embroidery techniques including padding with felt, raised embroidery stitches, adding slips and creating wired needlework petals

Hey Friends!! Would you like to add some dimension to your needlepoint canvases? Well, stumpwork is one of the best ways to do just that! Stumpwork is a very old form of embroidery and it's SUPER fun!! Never heard of it? No worries, I'm going to tell you all about in my blog post and what kind of raised surface stitches you will use in stumpwork! Needlepoint Stitch | Stumpwork | Stitches | Embroidery | Embroidery Stitch | Embroidery Stitches

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The fun thing about free style surface embroidery is that you can add texture and dimension here and there, just by changing up the stitches a bit. Flowers, for example, don’t have to be embroidered just in daisy stitch. Lines and borders sometimes need a bit more oomph to them than backstitch or stem stitch ...

Step by step tutorial on how to work Outlined or Raised Satin stitch. This version of Satin stitch will clearly define the edge of a hand embroidered shape.

Today I bring you a new stitch tutorial. Along with the lesson itself, I thought it would be nice to see where it can be used, so you will also see the process of stitching this little blueberry twig :) To be honest, this stitch fascinated me from the first time I saw it in some pictures a long time ago. But when I tried to learn it, it didn't work so after a while I gave up, haha. Well, not really gave up... It's just that if something is not going right I tend to put it away until a better…

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