Links I love: Primrose Design
OK, there are just not enough words in my effusive vocabulary for how much I heart this woman. I want to run away with her to embroidery land and live happily ever after while she teaches me everything she knows (and only then will I let her out of my clutches and she can come back and do other things).
Janet talked a lot about embroidery, so in order to help her blog readers, she started posting what she called “stitch school“. And for months on end, she would post, with extensive photos, how to do oh so many embroidery stitches. Incredible.
All those confusing instructions with two dimensional photos from other sites suddenly popped out and made sense because you could see which way things were supposed to go and which way to pull the thread and where to poke the needle.
She has multiple shops where she sells all her incredible work (if you have pocket change and can support her, by all means, do it).
This is where those transfer pens and papers and methods that we keep going over to the craft stores to investigate come in handy. We download embroidery patterns (or if you are like me, clip art patterns that you adore) on linens that we scored for super cheap and spend some time in front of the telly over the next few weeks relaxing and mutitasking getting some presents out of the way. Then we have absolutely gorgeous handmade and inexpensive items to give this Christmas.
Janet also made some incredible rumbles (you did not really have to read between the lines but she mentioned it quietly) that she reserved www.stitchschool.com, so you know what that means. Another out of this world resource. I am watching that space anxiously myself. Her photos are so incredibly helpful, and I just cannot wait to see how the school turns out.
If you are trying embroidery and finding it a bit of a challenge, or you want to explore some new stitches, I cannot recommend Primrose Design highly enough. Janet’s stitch school rocks. She just rocks.
via Primrose Design (see in particular the posts in the sidebar listed under Stitch School)
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July 10th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Well, it only took 6 months for me to find this post and to thank you. I usually watch for blogs linking to me through Technorati but I somehow missed this one. Thanks for all the kind words. I do, indeed, have plans for a Stitch School website. I just haven’t had time to do much with it yet. I’ve been so busy that I haven’t even done many new SS blog posts, although I do have more in the works. Be patient - I’ll get there