Sketches, Doodles, & Cetera
Embroidery Tutorial: Blending Colors with Seed Stitch
Embroidery Tutorials Hand Lettering Tutorials
I always love a project that challenges me to push my craft forward, and I've been running into quite a few of those lately. One of the new techniques that I've been having the most fun with is for a project where I was asked to recreate the garish festive look of an ugly Christmas sweater as embroidered text. I'd like to share with you the shading method that I used in this project to blend together the clashing cheery colors in the embroidery.
Embroidery Pattern: Ugly Xmas Sweater Cat
Embroidery Patterns Printables & Downloads
If you're in the mood to learn a bunch of new embroidery stitches and to celebrate your love of ugly Christmas sweaters, you're in luck! Stitch along with this embroidery sampler to try your hand at nine different embroidery techniques.
Printable: Felt Blythe Cape Pattern
Miniatures Printables & Downloads
When the weather starts to cool off, I always get in the mood for hand stitching and felt. There's just something so cozy about working with my hands like that.
Tiny objects are best for hand stitching, so I decided to make my Blythe doll a few capes to wear. I made the pattern into a PDF so you can try it, too.
Embroidery Tutorial: Duplicate Stitch
Embroidery Tutorials Tutorials
Today I'm sharing a tutorial for a special stitch to add embroidered elements to knit fabric. You can, of course, use traditional embroidery techniques with knitwear, but traditional stitches do not have the same stretchiness that knitted fabric has.
Enter the duplicate stitch. This is a stitch that essentially duplicates the knitted stitches, giving you the look of knitted color work. The stitch is easy to learn but can give you lots of creative options.
Printable: Miniature Loteria Cards
Miniatures Printables & Downloads
Today I'm getting together with some friends for a dolly meet. Every time the Portland Blythe community gets together, there is a theme, and the theme of today's meet is Piñatas. I have made it my goal to make a new printable for each of the dolly meets' themes (see my Springtime theme and my Valentine theme), and a piñata party seemed like a good fit for a set of Lotería cards. (The excellent kitty dress in the photo below was made by my good friend Julie for my birthday this year. I had a cat-themed birthday party, and she wanted to make sure that my...