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My free-form design on felt is complete. It is stitched to a rectangle of yellow felt using the fly stitch and French knots around the pinked edges. The yellow felt is stitched to a blue cotton f...

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The flying flower is well tethered to the tree trunk with chain stitches. Beware! It’s one of those climbing plants that you can take over the garden. I’ve decorated the giant flower with a f...

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The new house constructed on the vacant lot next to the trees looks a little stunned by the giant blue dot object hovering overhead. But I’ve stitched the house securely to a mound of solid blu...

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This little free-form design began with a step-out from my Nut House project. By turning the step-out swatch horizontally, the few leaves on the end of a branch become trees. I love being an arbo...

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Welcome to a new free-form embroidery design! This stitch project began with a step-out from the Nut House embroidery found in my book Playful Free-Form Embroidery. On the left you see the image ...

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Now that their felt fabric pieces for the design are in place my students in the Mi Casa es Su Casa class at the Asociación Española de Patchwork Festival will begin to add decorative details...

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