Ribbon Embroidery: the letter R

Tuesday, March 27th, 2018

I first learned about Tatiana Popova’s ribbon work through NeedlenThread’s review. As I’ve mentioned before, floral designs aren’t really my thing, but I had been interested in learning more about ribbon embroidery. I enjoyed Tatiana’s...

TAST: chevron stitch

Sunday, March 25th, 2018

You’ve read about my idea for this here, right? Ok! See all completed TAST posts here. Here is my sampler for the chevron stitch, front and back: To start, I wanted to see how well the chevron stitch took to a curve (fine!). Then I was curious what happens if you play...

WIP-TAST-ic Wednesday 12

Wednesday, March 21st, 2018

Hola all! I whipped out TAST’s chevron stitch as you can see here. Problem is…. how does one make this into a motif?? I’ll be twirling that around in my head for a while yet… When researching this stitch, I came upon the Half Chevron Stitch and...

Mabel the Raccoon

Monday, March 19th, 2018

An embroidery whirlwind blew through town this weekend and I finished up my raccoon embroidery. I had so much fun figuring out what stitch to use and how to solve problems along the way! I didn’t even mind – at all! – re-doing some sections. And...

WIP-TAST-ic Wednesday 11

Wednesday, March 14th, 2018

I made some progress on my ribbon embroidery this week! As you might recall, TAST is on hiatus this week for people to catch up. Sharon announced a small project, to combine a few stitches we’ve learned in a new project. I did not do this per se, but I did...

Colored Pencil Techniques 4

Sunday, March 11th, 2018

This week’s lesson was to draw bananas. Tom had an image of bananas pre-cut for each of us to speed along the class for those who can’t draw quickly (or at all). Then we set to work, making our bananas. Tom lent a few of us his pencils to take home so we...