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Luscious Strawberries in Stumpwork....

Roby’s strawberries were printed onto two panels of cotton fabric — one panel to use for the main design, the other to make the stumpwork shapes with.

Valentina Razenkova

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How To Make a Nature Scene of Embroidered Wildflowers

How To Make a Nature Scene of Embroidered Wildflowers . Hello, good morning from Kloof near Durban in KZN, where it’s much warmer and I am slowly defrosting. Cape Town has had a very cold winter! I thought you would like to learn how to make a country scene filled with wildflowers (we call them veld flowers). It’s a natural phenomenon here in the Cape that happens in...

Silk Ribbon Daisies

Silk Ribbon Daisies See how these daisies are almost life-like in their appearance, raised up off the surface of the design? Would you like me to show you how these daisies are made? If I hear back from enough embroiderers, dress designers, milliners, crafters, I will write a step-by-step tutorial. I just need to know if you are interested in learning how! Let me know...

How to Make White Roses Using a French Knot Technique

French Knot Roses See the white rose arch above the gate in this picture? These are French Knot Roses from our Lady in Red project/kit They are easy to make with stunning results and I will show you how on to this page. . . In Karen's instructions, she wrote: . White Rose Bush Make the French knot roses in Di van Niekerk's silk ribbon: 2mm and 4mm white (103) ribbon. Add...

How to make tiny butterflies with silk ribbon

Hi good morning stitching world! It is World Embroidery Day today, 30 July and to mark this special day, I thought I would show you how to make tiny little butterflies from silk ribbon. They are the sweetest butterflies ever! . . . My friend Karen Nell who has moved down to Knysna on the Garden Route in South Africa uses them as her signature on all her embroideries. Here is one that...

A Beautiful Landscape in Silk Ribbon Embroidery “Oranges and Bougainvillea”

“Oranges and Bougainvillea” . Before we start, one question for you. Would you like me to teach you how to make the lovely oranges with silk ribbon? Please go to my Facebook or Instagram pages to answer under the oranges and Bougainvillea design. Please tell me whether you would like to learn how to make the oranges and mention where you are from. It’s always interesting to...

Beautiful Ribbonwork by Ilona Tsvigun from Kyiv

I saw Илона Цвигун (Ilona Tsvigun’s) beautiful work and asked her to tell us a little about herself and her journey in embroidery. Ilona (who is from Kyiv in the Ukraine) wrote: “War has turned our world upside down, destroyed our ordinary lives, and disrupted the balance. But the beauty of nature helps to distract from the horrors of war, to feel that life goes on! By transferring the...

Folded Silk Ribbon Roses

I thought I would show you some lovely folded ribbon roses. . . How to make Folded Ribbon Roses . . Folded Ribbon Roses Folded ribbon roses are made separately as illustrated below, and then attached to the background. Use needle and thread (insert the needle between the folded petals) and tidy or re-shape the rose. Ribbon stitch leaves made underneath the folded rose will lift the outer...

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