Stem Stitch: Hand Embroidery Stem stitch is a useful embroidery stitch to know if you need to embroider lines as part of your design. Obviously it’s great for stems, but it can be used in other ways to! It offers an alternative to back stitch and running stitch,…
Woven Wheel Stitch One of the lovely things about embroidering by hand is that you can get all sorts of different textures that you just can’t if you use the sewing machine. Woven wheel stitch is a raised stitch and it adds a little bit of a 3D…
How To Sew Lazy Daisy Stitch This post contains affiliate links. As the name suggests, lazy daisy stitch is useful for when you want to embroider the petals of flowers. It’s a stitch you often see on vintage table cloths where flowers have been embroidered by hand. They…
How to Make a Dried Citrus Wreath One of my favourite pre Christmas jobs is to make a wreath for the front door. Usually I’ll make one from greenery and berries, but this year I wanted to try something different. This dried citrus wreath has slices of dried…
DIY Decorated Glass Jars Making some diy decorated glass jars is something that I’ve wanted to try for a while.Β I’d previously done something similar using glass paints, but they were expensive, messy and difficult to clean up. So when I was sent some Chalkola chalk markers to try…
How to Make Dried Fruit Decorations There’s no question at all that Christmas is a special time of year. Obviously it wouldn’t be Christmas without presents, but I like to focus on getting somebody something they would like rather than feeling that we have to buy all the…