Queen Letizia of Spain's gold-embroidered wedding dress garnered lots of attention at her 2004 wedding, not least because of its impressive £6 million price tag, but do you remember her accessories?
We’re quite partial to the classic elegance of embroidered wedding dresses, but if you’re longing for drama for your big day, there’s a truly fabulous way to step this look up a notch. Enter ...
HELLO! Magazine: Queen Letizia teamed £6m wedding dress with unexpected heirlooms from royal in-laws
Queen Letizia teamed £6m wedding dress with unexpected heirlooms from royal in-laws
Hand Embroidery: Lettering and Text 8: The split stitch works great for embroidered writing, especially when worked with a non-stranded thread, like floche or perle cotton. This tutorial shows you how to embroidery letters using split stitch and it talks a bit about threads, too.
Embroidered Writing – My Favorite Stitches for It It’s happening again! I’m getting lots of emails lately about embroidered writing – which has me thinking that there’s either a big project going on out there somewhere involving embroidered text, or embroidering hand-written text is becoming trendy again on the social media waves.
This would include items like embroidered tablecloths, table runners, cloth napkins, towels; embroidered clothes such as jackets that get taken off, shirts, skirts, and so forth; embroidered blankets, winter hats, mittens, curtains for a window – all the typical used items of life that might get embellished and that don’t normally have a ...
Tutorials for Hand Embroidered Leaves & Flowers Do you want to add more variety to your hand embroidery projects by stitching different types of leaves or flowers? After all, when you look at flowers and foliage in their natural setting, they’re rarely exactly the same!