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Folk embroidery – Love, Lucie

Hungarian embroidery

Crewel

Earlier this week, I shared a few projects that occupied my embroidery hoop over recent weekends, especially a cheery variety of folk-inspired designs that I had prepared for some (now-cancelled) local classes this summer. I begged you for input on names, and golly! Did you all come through! So M

Beautiful pattern

Check out a review of Modern Folk Embroidery by Nancy Nicholson.

If I could categorize embroidery books into types, I’d probably divide them up like this: Embroidery techniques, embroidery projects, embroidery history (and culture), old embroidery books, embroidery patterns… I’m sure if we all put our heads together, we could come up with a few more general categories that hand embroidery books usually fall into, but ...

Embroidery at it's finest !