Friday 29 January 2021

January Newsletter

 You can read the January Newsletter HERE.

You will find lots of ideas for stitches and some online talks coming soon.

Friday 22 January 2021

Positivity

Macclesfield Branch have responded to the NW Regional challenge by working items reflecting Positivity.

Examples of the work can be seen here 




Monday 18 January 2021

More Stitch Sources

 Hopefully you are well underway with your hand-stitch sampler.  It can be difficult to find stitches that represent every letter in the alphabet . Here are some more sources of ideas.




10 unusual hand stitches

50 embroidery stitches

Pintangle

Monday 4 January 2021

Happy New Year 2021

 The meetings on 2 January decided on a common activity for the next six month. Members will create individual Stitch Samplers.  The sampler can take the form of a hanging, a roll, a book, tags or any format you can think of.  For the first month members are going to be working on stitches A. B, C, and D. The choice of stitch is left to the individual, and there were many stitches suggested, but members were encouraged to tackle stitches outside their comfort zone

There are many potential sources of stitch are abundant.  Many books have alphabetical lists and many websites have descriptions, diagrams and video samples.  

Here are some suggested sites:-

Needlenthread

gatheredhow

pinterest