Freehand embroidery

Francesca Kemp Textile Art creates the most beautiful pieces with freehand machine embroidery. Here, Francesca explains why she loves these three weights: 🧵80wt – Her latest addiction offers a fine finish, perfect for sketching with thread and allowing a slow build-up, ideal for fluffier projects. 🧵50wt – A trusted outliner, her go-to choice until recently. 🧵40wt – Excellent for fonts and color flooding, adding boldness and a needed pop against strong colors like orange.

A scrap of fabric that I was practicing a new transfer technique on. I think it's gonna work.

Japanese embroidery ideas and techniques to try something a little different and learn about a different culture.

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Paint & Stitch

There are hundreds of embroidery stitches in the world. Some are simple, and some – are more complex. Some embroidery stitches are made for outlines, while others work best for borders or lettering. Also, there are many stitches for filling. We might group filling stitches by how much surface they cover and how much fabric […]

Here's 5 embroidery projects to get started with hand embroidery. At Mindful Mantra Embroidery, we believe that everyone is creative in some way, and can embroider if they want to! Learn embroidery with our beginner friendly embroidery patterns

What is free motion embroidery? How long has it been around? What can you do with it? How can you get started? Read more here!

gallery of freehand machine embroidered pictures by UK textile artist Alison Holt using silk painting and freehand machine embroidery

Kate Tarling on Instagram: "Salcombe, 44cm x26cm paint and freehand embroidery on canvas. #textileart #stitchedart #embroideryart #embroideredmap #mapart #landscapeart #freehandmachineembroidery #embroiderersofinstagram #maps #salcombe #salcombeestuary #katetarlingtextiles #bristolartist"

Polish artist Ewa Cieniak isn’t really sure why embroidery calls out to her.

Sarah Becvar on Instagram: "The place has now been filled, we’re fully booked! There’s just the one place remaining at my workshop on Friday 30th August, could it be for you? What time? 9.30-4pm Where? My garden studio, just north of Lewes, East Sussex What will I learn? Freehand machine embroidery with lots of guidance and troubleshooting tips What will I make? Being an all day workshop you’ll have time to make two projects; notecards, makeup bag, bookmark, hoop artwork and more Do I…

"Tomoko Ogawa's sewing machine work is full of playfulness. Just looking at the stitches and collages, which are sewn as if enjoying chance, makes your...

Katie is a textile artist based in East Sussex, creating, designing and teaching. A published author of 'Layered and Stitched Pictures' published by Search Press, Katie loves equipping others with their own textiles skills. Specialising in freehand machine embroidery, applique, painting and needle felting, Katie has a unique technique and life like style, creating beautiful mixed media artworks.

Named after her maternal grandparents, Gabriela is the textile artist behind Ofelia & Antelmo, a proposal based on two joint formats: Textile art and Wearable Art. Its visual approach is the result of the exploration of organic textures by the repetition of patterns that invites the viewer t