Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now

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Category: embroidery

  • Better tool

    That moment when you decide to try stretcher bars after four years of embroidery using the classic hoop. Should have migrated years ago. No matter what I did, I couldn’t get the fabric for the owl project, and many others, sufficiently tight in the hoop. For me, the big challenge with thread painting embroidery is…

  • Close observation

    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…

  • Chickadees for Liz

    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…