In my opinion it is important to know the basics to be good in something. To know the basics enables creativity and the ability to create lovely things. Even if the focus is on medieval hand embroidery, it doesn’t hurt to look into the basics of hand sewing if you don’t want to spend the rest of your life creating wallhangings… but well, even for that you would need some basic hand sewing techniques if you don’t want a wallhanging with untreated edges… 😉 But let me share a nice little secret with you – the stitches for hand sewing are rather easy and can be found in the same…
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Personal thoughts about hand-sewing and hand-embroidery…
After my recent posting with which I started my new “fast and easy pouch tutorial (handsewn)“- I started working at the first step for the second “Craft with Racaire” project. Thinking about the new project, about hand-sewing and hand-embroidery, I remembered the problems some people have when it comes to hand-sewing and/or hand-embroidery or when they are just thinking about trying it. I know that for many people just the thought of doing some hand-sewing or hand-embroidery is already scary and intimidating. In my opinionthis feeling is absolutely natural and I can tell from my experience that it is not limited to hand-sewing. It seems that especially newcomers seem to suffer from it.…
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Working at an embroidered 14th century pouch for the 9th blog-birthday raffle… :D .2
Wooohoooo! Countdown! -11 days! Just 11 days left till the 9th blog birthday and my very first raffle for my blog-members! …or, well, lets put it another way: I have still 10 days + 1 evening to finish the embroidery for the embroidered 14th century pouch for the 9th blog-birthday! *grin* However, if you compare the picture underneath to yesterdays progress, I am on a good way to finish the pouch in time. See for yourself: Cute, isn’t it… too bad I can’t keep if for myself when it is finished… 😉
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Working at an embroidered 14th century pouch for the 9th blog-birthday raffle… :D
Wow!!! The 9th birthday of my blog is coming up soon! I am so excited! …and I I already started working at an embroidered 14th century pouch for the very first “birthday raffle”… *happydance* I thought I have still more than a month till the 9th birthday of my blog. Then I checked the date and realized that I have less then 3 weeks left… omg… *panic-mode-on*… 😉 Why I panic? Because I wanted to make the next birthday – the 9th birthday of my blog – a very special one by celebrating it with a gift and a raffle for my blog members. Well, I have to admit that…
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Impressions from Vienna – the best panoramic view over Vienna
Welcome to another embroidery-free-sunday. Today I have something special for you – I found the best panoramic view in Vienna. This week a friend of mine visited the “Haus des Meeres” and invited me to accompany him. I really like this “Aqua Terra Zoo”. It is a great example of how something as ugly and huge that belongs to WWII history can be turned into something good and useful. Well, who would expect an “Aqua Terra Zoo” in a WWII Flak tower in the middle of Vienna? …but on the other side – isn’t that the perfect solution, especially when you also think of the climbing wall at the outside of…
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14th century French Pouch .1 – sneak peek progress .16 – Endspurt! :)
…and the first outlines for my 14th century French pouch – enjoy! 😀 Though I don’t know yet with which color(s) my customer would like to see the hood filled and the figures outlined, I took the freedom to already start with some of the “not-so-important” outlines. In my opinion this “not-so-important” section is the small yellow section between the red and green sections and looks like a very slim cross. For this section in the middle I decided to use my white wool-silk thread for the outlines. The white thread nicely accentuates the section but does not distract from the embroidery as you can see on the following picture. I decided to…
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14th century French Pouch .1 – sneak peek progress .15 – Endspurt! :)
End-spurt! 😀 …I am very happy to say that I nearly finished the basic embroidery for my 14th century French pouch. Just a rather small section is still not embroidered but I hope to get the information I need to complete it soon. Nevertheless, I enjoy this moment very much and would like to celebrate it with you by sharing some progress pictures – enjoy! 😀 As you can see, the embroidery for the hood for the upper right section is still missing. Concerning this section and also concerning the outlines for the figures I am waiting for the decision of my customer concerning his preferred colors. Btw. this…
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14th century French Pouch .1 – sneak peek progress .14
End-spurt! Well, it is not finished yet but I am very happy to say that I am rather close to finish the embroidery for my 14th century French pouch. …and I have another sneak peek photo of the embroidery for you – enjoy! 😀
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14th century French Pouch .1 – sneak peek progress .13
…another day and another progress picture of my 14th century French pouch for you – enjoy! Btw. I finally reached the point to declare that it is “End-spurt” time again… *happyadance* …you know, what that means, I am getting close to finish this embroidery… 😀
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Craft with Racaire – Project #2 – Pouch #1 – fast and easy pouch tutorial (handsewn) & how to work with “rapports”
I know that many of you really have enjoyed my pouch-projects and I guess that some of you miss my “old” fast and easy pouch tutorial. Therefore I started a new project for you and also for my “Craft with Racaire” section: My fast and easy pouch tutorial Before I introduce you the more difficult techniques and we start with the embroidered and fancy pouches, I decided to show you a simple way how to make a hand-sewn pouch for yourself, for a gift, your favorite card game,… or whatever you want to store in it. Btw. this is a tutorial for a hand-sewn pouch which you can easily embroider and…
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