Danish embroidery patterns

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 ...

Hi, everyone! I'm here with a new complete process! If you follow me on Instagram, you've probably already seen few sneak peeks. I also mentioned it on the blog before and said that I want to experiment a little. Well, I did! And at last, it is finished. So, catch some details and a new stitch tutorial. As always, I didn't really bother to think of a name for this process, because it was just something for my own practice (if you have any ideas, though, please share). Hence, the ambiguous…

Provides precise, thorough instructions and illustrations of 45 historic, remarkably beautiful Danish pulled thread designs. Each is accompanied by a photograph of a finished section of embroidery made with the stitch. 84 line drawings. 89 black and white photographs.

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Have you seen Rosalie Quinlan's new BOM Scandinavian Rose. As soon as I saw a picture of the finished quilt on Rosalie's blog I knew I wanted to make it. Sarah had the patterns for sale on her stall at the Burnie Friendship Day. Throughout the day I kept picking them up and looking at them longingly. By the end of the day (and with 'encouragement' from Cathy) they were mine. Each block is preprinted onto white hanky linen and as soon as I got home I started stitching. I am using a pinky red…