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Handy Heart Potholder
This fun project is the Handy Heart Potholder. It was really easy to make with the pattern instructions. The rick-rack and little button are cute additions.
DIY Valentine Gifts for Dogs
Include your pets on Valentine's Day with DIY toys, scarves and tutus. Super easy projects using felt, fleece, repurposed tee shirts and more!
DIY Sweatshirt Makeover: Quick, Easy and Cozy Ideas
Here's a quick and easy sweatshirt update with style! Adjust the shoulders for fit, shorten the sleeves and add texture with a sleeve-leftover appliqué.
How to Stencil a Shirt
What American Girl doesn't like making new matching outfits? We all do! All you need is T-shirts, a stencil and ink pads, and some cardboard. Make skirts, too!
Embroidered Kitchen Towels
I used a few different stitches on these hand embroidered kitchen towels. The iron on designs are from a local creative reuse store. Fun gift to make!
Overcast Stitch by Hand
The overcast stitch for hand embroidery is a laid stitch made upright over another thread and resembles a fine cord. It is used for outlines or delicate stems.
Flat Stitch Embroidery
The flat hand embroidery stitch fills areas that are too big for satin stitch. You can achieve fast coverage of a space that needs a solid look.
Satin Stitch Embroidery
The satin stitch is made from long straight stitches placed close together to resemble satin. Take care to keep your stitches close together for this easy fill.
Long and Short Stitch
The long and short stitch fills large areas with hand stitches. It is a satin type stitch and is used to blend colors with different threads. Adds texture.
Blanket Stitch Embroidery
Blanket stitch is typically used to edge blankets and other edges like table cloths, runners, even wool jackets by hand. Place stitches close or staggered.
Beaded Gemstone Capture Jewelry
Rhodochrosite Beaded Necklace is an original design stitched using off-loom beadweaving techniques. Rhodochrosite. Peyote stitch. 20" chain. Sterling clasp.
Buttonhole Stitch
The buttonhole stitch is perfect for applique, crazy quilting and borders. This hand embroidery stitches is formed by stitching through thread loops.
Closed Buttonhole Stitch Hand Embroidery Tutorial
The closed buttonhole stitch is a variation on the buttonhole stitch and is used for borders and as an edge stitch. It can be used as an applique stitch, too.
Creative Gift Wrap Ideas
Make use of non-traditional wrapping materials or use what you already have in your closet in a whole new way to package a gift creatively.
Closed Feather Stitch
The Closed Feather stitch is a lovely outline stitch for both curves and straight lines. Often used in crazy quilting and applique, this easy stitch is fast.
Embroidery: Open Cretan Stitch
The open cretan embroidery stitch is used for borders, edges and applique. Its feathery look is light and perfect for adding surface texture to your project.
Fern Stitch Embroidery
The fern stitch is great for vegetation fill on your hand embroidery project. Vary the threads and size of the stitches to convey different sizes of plants.
Pekinese Stitch
The Pekinese stitch makes a great outline where you want more texture with its loops. Perfect hand embroidery stitch for linear surface design.