Hand embroidery quilt blocks

Welcome to the weekly hand stitching link up! We celebrate all types of hand work and enjoy seeing what is being created by hands all around the world... slow and steady, one small stitch at a time! Did you know that yesterday (February 8th) was Hari-Kuyo? This is a 400+ year old Japanese ritual called "Festival of Broken Needles". What is that you ask?!? Hari-Kuyo is the Buddhist and Shinto Festival of Broken Needles which is celebrated in parts of Japan on February 8th. For the past 400…

time to stitch the blocks together... pin basting with cotton batting ... a variety of hand quilting threads selected for 'Big Stitch' hand quilting... we had a good run of rainy quilting-and-binding weather... and my favourite photo in the garden... sunshine after rain is extra special isn't it? And a bit of a blurb about the quilt? I started it in May 2016. It measures approx 70 inches by 78 inches and is my own design. I was initially inspired by an antique quilt spotted in Jane Lury's…

How to Hand Embroider A Quilt to give more texture and more color, quilts are always beautiful, but hand embroidery stitches will make them to look even better!

Shelly of The Life of Hazel Ilene is sharing an embroidery quilt-along one block at a time. She says, For these blocks, there’s a plain version, and a fancy version. Which you do just depends on ho…

Bird Brain Designs sells unique Hand and Machine Embroidery Patterns and Kits, Wool Applique Patterns and Kits. We also offer a wide variety of stitching accessories and other supplies for embroidery.

Patty over at Elm Street Quilts and I have been planning a Quilt Along slated to start in January 2019 and we will be hand piecing all of the blocks!

Hand Quilting Patterns will give you a list of different ways to do the quilting on your new quilt to give it its own texture

Over one-third of quilters own an embroidery machine, and about one-third also do embroidery on quilt tops. That leads to a big question - How do you quilt them?

Embroidery On An Applique Quilt Block can be done with different decorative stitches, to add details and a personal style to your quilts. Quilts can be made with different methods, patchwork and applique are two stitching methods quilters often use to make their quilts. When you love hand stitching, you might love to make your

Great Tutorial for Beginners – Larger Stitches Show Best! Most quilters, whether they hand quilt or not, deeply appreciate the fine quilts produced by those who do. There’s just something about hand quilting that makes quilts stand out over their machine-quilted counterparts. Quality hand quilting is all about the stitch size and how even the …