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Quench Your Thirst for Style: Unveiling Our Must-Have Reusable Bottle Bag Pattern!

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Are you ready to take your sustainable lifestyle to the next level? We’re excited to introduce our brand-new reusable bottle bag pattern, the Eco Bottle Bag! As a cross-body style, one-size-fits-most bag, the Eco Bottle bag carries just the essentials – phone, water, keys- for a day out adventuring or at the stadium. The pattern …

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The Art of Felt Butterfly Embroidery: From Basics to Beautiful Creations

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Learn how to create stunning felt butterfly embroidery designs with step-by-step tutorials, expert tips, and creative ideas for your next crafting project. The moth and butterfly patch I am using today is designed by Lori Everette of Make Merry Co. The pattern is a free download from The Felt Store which you can find HERE. …

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My Looped Bullion Knot Experiment

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This month’s Embroidery Garden Journal is the humble violet. I used the Looped Bullion Knot stitch from the book Foolproof Flower Embroidery by Jennifer Clouston to teach myself the stitch. Find the book HERE and join in my looped bullion knot experiment this month as we embroider a cluster of violets! Pushing Stitching Boundaries As …

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What the Heck is Battlement Couching?

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This month’s embroidery garden journal is all about trying a new-to-me technique I learned specifically for this entry to enhance the design of my embroidery flowers. Join me in practicing this embroidery stitch in answering the question, what the heck is battlement couching!?! And how do you use it in an embroidery? Pushing Stitching Boundaries …

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Celestial Stitching: How to Create Moth and Moon Cyanotype Embroidery

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Dark as night and mysterious as the moonlit path, today’s embroidery uses a cyanotype print background as the spooky foundation for some celestial stitching. Creating an embroidery scene from plain fabric may leave you confused as to where to even start. But beginning with a foundational background to work from can be a great boost …

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Delicate Bulb Details – Stitching A Snow Crocus for February

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My second entry in the 2024 Embroidery Garden Journal is a small snow crocus for February. I live in zone 6b in central Pennsylvania. The small white snow crocus is one of the first flowers to appear in my garden each year. We have been having more snow this month, and my garden remains mostly …

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2024 Monthly Embroidery Journal: Capturing Stitched Memories of the Garden

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Have you ever wanted to capture a record of the beautiful abundance of life in your garden in a format other than photographs? Embroidery journals have been circling around the internet for a number of years, but an icon a day is not something a lot of us can keep up with. How about one …

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