I’ll be honest, I want a bit of Kit Lane marvellousness in my collection one day, so they’re not too cute, but they sure are hella cute. This is Lambykins.Too Cute Tuesdays are brought to...
Welcome to eMbroidery, a series of interviews with male embroiderers. This month, Spike Dennis.Name: Spike DennisLocation: WalesMain embroidery medium: Cotton Thread/Canvas/Linen. Normally with a spl...
Hi everybody! It’s Saturday, and you know what that means – so if you’re ready, scroll past the Otterball and get to it!WARNING!NSFW SATURDAYS WILL CONTAIN CONTENT THAT IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK!IF YOU RE...
We all know how important education is, but few of us know how important fashion graduates are for setting the seasons trend in fashion. The final push is over and most have handed in for show select...
We love those Urban Threadsters and their Look Book is a fantastic source of inspiration of what to do with machine embroidery. In honour of their fourth birthday on 28th May, they have updated the L...
Pierre Fouché is a lace artist from Cape Town, South Africa. His work is astonishing. Fouché (b.1977) completed a Masters degree in Fine Art (cum laude) at Stellenbosch University in 2006. His produc...
Louise Riley is definitely one of my favourite stitchy artists. She’s just produced this short film – LITTLE DEATHS – Diagram 1 – Cordelia Ophelia - featuring one of her more ...
Time for another look at some of the great work featured in the forums at Craftster. Note: Although they’re the pick of this week, they may have appeared before this week. This week, we feature Amper...
Manbroidering superstar Eliot BK dropped me a line to share his latest cross stitched art piece – Kuhschädel! I got inspired by the tradition of drawing designs, mostly flowers and names on hum...
Thanks to Sarah Beth for alerting me to LittleVoice‘s Merry Monsters. This one is Fiona who, despite being involved in the Hairy Scary Rollers, is still too cute for me.
Drop Dead Quirky scares the crap out of everyone (apart from me) with her Ring hand embroidery. #itscaredmetoo
Though we’re thrilled to showcase all kinds of mechanized embroidery here on Gear Threads, it’s a rare treat to come across an artist who heavily incorporates digitizing techniques into t...
5erg‘s needle-felted kitty might be bad, but he’s making me smile.
Professor Julian Ellis OBE is a recognised expert in the field of Fabric Technologies. He has carried out extensive work exploring the “rapid design and manufacture of textile surgical implants...
The latest issue of Cross Stitcher magazine hits the shops today! It’s an exciting issue from my perspective as it features my first two designs for the magazine, ideal for the man in yo...
Time for another look at some of the great work featured in the forums at Craftster.Note: Although they’re the pick of this week, they may have appeared before this week.SisterTwisty had a go at Carr...
Last post we were talking about filling stitches and how to perfect the shiny smooth satin stitch. That got me thinking and this month I’d like to go into textures a bit more. Sure, we know tha...
This month I decided I wanted to post about plush versions of my favorite animals! I am obsessed with dogs, and anything with tentacles. I’ve yet to see a plush that combined the two, and I cha...
A bunch of news items for you today in the Good News Sandwich format. For those of you that don’t know, the Good News Sandwich is a great way of sharing bad or sad news with someone, by using g...
This may only be in half stitch, but damn does it look cool. Water pokemon by glasnt.I’ve posted a stained glass window or two on here before, but I honestly think this one takes the biscuit. I...
Time for another look at some of the great work featured in the forums at Craftster. Note: Although they’re the pick of this week, they may have appeared before this week.This week’s pick was b...
We love Etsy, it’s filled with handmade joy. We’ve been allowed to rummage through their blog archives and share our findings with you. This month’s post features a wonderful video ...
Lets talk high-art quilting.“R.W.S.O.” ; According to an interview:“Ai Kijima is a Japanese born textile artist currently living in Chicago. A self-confessed fabric ‘addict’, Ai’s dis...
Alpaca embroidery, a photo by wildolive on Flickr.
Almost exactly a year ago, Mr X put out a call as part of the FFFoF series for stitchers to take part in the Embroidered Digital Commons project. He had agreed with the organisers to co-ordinate one ...
Hi everybody! It’s Saturday, and you know what that means – so if you’re ready, scroll past Lil Miss Brishtail and get to it!WARNING!NSFW SATURDAYS WILL CONTAIN CONTENT THAT IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK!IF Y...
Thanks to Robin for emailing me about her excellent 3D cross stitched TARDIS! I hope this inspires other sculptural cross stitch creations!
Victoria Martini is an embroidery artist from Munich, Germany.“I love in a way to copy artists that have also copied existing ideas (from other artists pictures or advertisements) and made a co...
Mr X Stitch favourite Ellen Schinderman has her first major show at the Hive Gallery this month. Titled “Flesh & Fiber” it features a series of works where Ellen has only stitch...
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