Bordado jacobean

I promised to show you this, my crewel embroidery piece 'Tree of Life' started and completed in the mid 1970's. I recall it took me perhaps a couple of years, picking it up now and then between family and work commitments when we lived in Massachusetts. I bought it as a kit - complete with the skeins of wools in beautiful colors, printed Belgian linen, and stitch instructions - offered by one of the most admired American stitchery women ever, the late Elsa Williams. After a lengthy search…

I loved the blue linen that I used when I first set up this Jacobean “whitework” embroidery project. But since it is a discontinued fabric, and since I had some design tweaking I wanted to do, I decided to start over. I couldn’t find a blue linen I liked well enough that is suitable for ...

Crewel Embroidery Kit A Jacobean Study Entitled Jacobean - Etsy 5F2

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In this fourth title in Hazel Blomkamp’s series on crewel embroidery with a twist, the focus is on farm and game birds. The birds give a nod to current trends, most notably the Zentangle look with crewel-style filling-in stitches and techniques. Crewel Birds is a celebration of Hazel’s signature techniques: a wide variety of surface/crewel stitches, some of which are brand new and many with a different take or different ways of combining stitches to make them more interesting. Also included…

Hello my favourite people.....Just to let you know that this embroidery is finished and I can now proudly showcase All my hard work ! ...

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