One of the only dangers to sewing and embroidery work is something called repetitive stress injury (RSI). Repetitive stress injury is believed to be caused by someone performing the same tasks over and over. This repetition causes strain on the muscles and tendons of the area where the tasks are completed by the body. This [...]
An interesting way to add color, texture and dimension to your sewn items, is to add couching. Couching is derived from the French word couchier and is the art of embroidering by laying threads flat on a surface and sewing them down by stitches sewn at regular intervals. In centuries past, couching was a very [...]
Do you know that you can easily stitch embroidery and other similar threads onto paper? Yes, you absolutely can! Adding embroidery to your paper crafts and scrapbooking pages gives them a new dimension and unique look. Embroidering on your scrapbook pages also allows you to easily add elements to your pages while you are adding [...]