Stump work

Just look at this exquisite lace leaf. It was made for the Bernina tutorial written by Carolyn Sinclair. It it quite stunning and now you can make one too. You will need some special supplies, but they can be purchased … Read More...

Stump work

This morning, I'm excited to share with you a beautiful guest post for you from Celeste Chalasani. Celeste will chat about what inspires her stumpwork projects and show us some of her favorite stumpwork embroidery pieces. She'll also share a great design tip to help you come up with your own stum

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Learn Stumpwork Embroidery techniques including padding with felt, raised embroidery stitches, adding slips and creating wired needlework petals

Finally – a finish of sorts! The stumpwork elements for Late Harvest are all stitched up and ready to go! Not that they have anywhere to go yet – I still have to finish the left half of the main part of the project. But it’s always nice to accomplish a minor goal, isn’t it? ...

Last year, I made the over-hasty announcement that I would be attending Beating Around the Bush, 2012, down in Australia. Alas, for me, it was over-hasty, because I’m not going after all. At the time, I wasn’t aware of the various project deadlines that Country Bumpkin had to meet for marketing the event, and, having ...