Category: embroidery
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Last week, a Townsend’s warbler showed up at our backyard bird feeder. The picture of this little guy comes from the All About Bird’s website, Cornell University’s ornithology lab, which is an excellent site for birding info. The Townsend’s warbler is a West Coast species, a bird about the size of a chickadee, and it…
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Thread painting — using embroidery thread to create images — is a thing I’ve been trying the last three years. I’m starting to get the hang of it. The chickadees are DMC cotton thread on linen fabric dyed using Derwent Inktense pencils. To see the genius artists of this genre, check My Modern Met’s collection…
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Hand embroiderers call this thread painting. I’ve been playing around with it for a couple of years. While I’ve done some experimenting with my own designs, there are some amazing embroiderers out there who sell designs, even kits including fabric and thread. I’ve done a few of those and quite enjoyed them, but there’s a…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 