I have a brand new tutorial for you today. A tiny plush flower embroidered using the plush template embroidery technique. Also known as Amish stumpwork, among other things.
This tiny flower is an unusual motif, very quick to stitch, and is great for using up tiny scraps of yarn, and filling in empty spaces in larger designs.
I hope you enjoy it, and if you’d like to see a video showing how to stitch it, let me know in the comments!
I’ve added a new tutorial today, for working plush template embroidery (aka Amish stumpwork, plushwork, German tufted wool embroidery), without any knots.
This tutorial includes a new star shaped template, which will be the first of a large collection of motifs that I will be uploading over time. I hope you enjoy what will be an ongoing series, that will include lots of new information the technique of plush template embroidery as well as many traditional, and unusual template designs.
If you would like me to make a video to go along with this tutorial, let me know in the comments!
I’ve spent the last week happily playing with the new Caydo 4 needle, manual I-cord machine*, and I have to admit, I was impressed even more than I expected.
Check out my full review video below, and if you’d like to buy an i-cord machine, or are curious about any of Caydo’s products, you’ll find them here.
* Links in this post will earn me a small commission as an affiliate. Rest assured, I only promote products that I have tested, and I would be happy to purchase. This machine was given to me by Caydo to review at no cost to me.
Today I’m uploading three new beautiful lace edging patterns from the 19th century, all named Valenciennes Lace!
As usual, I’ve updated the patterns into modern knitting language, charted and test knit them.
Valenciennes Lace 1 from the Ramsgate Book of Knitted Lace Edgings, 1848
Valenciennes Lace 2 from “Knitting and Crochet, an Illustrated Manual”, 1880 and
Enjoy!
First a little housekeeping: Regular visitors may have noticed I have removed mention of my fledgeling Patreon from the site. This is because I very quickly came to the realisation that I cannot make tutorials and downloads on a strict schedule any more. This means the ads on the website will stay (unless I win the lottery, ahem).
BUT!
This is good news for everyone, previous Patreon members included. Firstly, I refunded everyone with a paid membership. This is because I’m still going to supply all of the original tutorials and patterns I was going to use to reward Patreon members, I’m just going to post them here with ads. I’ve also updated my CSS file so all of the ads disapppear when you print a page again, which means all you have to do to save any pattern or tutorial as a nice clean pdf is hit print and choose to save as a pdf, or you can print them on paper.
So now all that’s out of the way, I hope you enjoy the first set of 19th century lace edging patterns I released. The Baby Edging Collection. They are:
Baby Edging from Weldon’s Practical Knitter
Baby Lace (1) from 5,000 Gems for the Household and
Baby Lace (2) from Needlecraft Knitted Edgings.
I will also be writing a series of tutorials for making Teneriffe Lace, and Plush Template Embroidery that will be added to over the years to become more than I could have ever published in book form. I will upload the first few tutorials over the coming weeks.
I hope you enjoy these techniques and patterns as much as I do.
