As a bag designer graduated from Tama Art University, Japanese artist Yumiko Higuchi started to focus on embroidery as a side activity at first. But her passion for needles & thread grew quickly, and now, Yuki creates the most beautiful, whimsical patterns – often involving nature and animals – on fabrics, pouches, bowtie brooches, bags and many […]
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Caitlin Benson believes that flowers should last a lifetime, which is why she stitches them into colorful, delicate hoop embroideries I’d love to see up on my wall. Based in Vancouver and founder of her brand called Cinder & Honey (which she runs with her husband Michael), she loves to sketch all kinds of florals before finalizing […]
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Beautiful, natural sceneries that drip right off the gallery walls.. oh how I love these magical works by Peruvian artist Ana Teresa Barboza. Ana uses embroidery, wool and yarn in to create unique pieces and sculptures in which nature, animals and the human body often play a central role.
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It’s such a special feeling to put an original piece of art on your wall. There are more details to admire and more structures to absorb. And the very fact that you’re staring at something that someone dedicated time and effort on is so awesome! For today’s themed blogpost I created a collection of beautiful original […]
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Remember when I wrote about the beautiful embroidery of Albany based artist Sarah Benning? Well, I’ve seen so many amazing new creations appear on her site since then. Every time I check, her work grows more detailed, more complex and more beautiful. I guess hard work and dedication really does pay off!
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We have a winner… Congratulations, Bernadette! You’re the winner of this week’s giveaway and the embroidery is yours! Thanks for joining the competition everyone. A new giveaway will open next Monday. This competition closed on Friday, March 18. A lucky winner was selected randomly.
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Finally! Back to the crafty experiments! Sorry for the delay of sharing the results of Crafty Moods Project nr. 5. The website’s new look took quite a bit of my time. These weeks I spent such long hours behind my computerscreen that my eyes turned square and I ended up with a bad need for some old fashioned offline handwork. Which […]
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