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Sewing Projects and Such?

May 25th, 2012 2 comments

I’m bored and I want to do something artsy

I don’t have anything extravagant to do as art but I was thinking something more like sewing…

-sewing
-embroidery
-painting
-cross stiching
-drawing
-building -wood-paper-etc…
-beads

I was thinking of painting but I don’t know what to paint, I don’t know what to embroider, I have no beading ideas…I don’t know what to draw…I want to build something but don’t know what

you get the point?

could you help me out?

I don’t want to buy anything I just want something simple and easy to do!\

I don’t want to download patterns so could you get me a free pattern website?

and if you have any other art Idea’s i’m all "ears"

Thanks
I was thinking of something more artistic… something like patchwork embroidery or something….

This is for beginners and there may be something your interested in.

http://www.craftown.com/lessons.htm

Introduction: Creative Machine Embroidery with Alison Holt

December 1st, 2011 3 comments

DVD Title: Creative Machine Embroidery with Alison Holt

Alison Holt is a free-hand creative machine embroider. Rather than work with machine embroidery settings, Alison has devoted 30 years towards becoming a world recognized leader in the art of freehand embroidery of flowers, foliage, landscapes and more.
The author of 3 books on machine embroidery, Alison now offers an intensive 3-hour workshop on the art of Machine Embroidery in this film, “Creative Machine Embroidery with Alison Holt”. Here we see Alison setting the stage for what will be covered!

Duration : 0:1:12

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Creating a Machine Embroidered Landscape: Penylan Lane

November 15th, 2011 3 comments

DVD Title: Creative Machine Embroidery with Alison Holt

Alison Holt is a world-class machine embroiderer who devoted nearly 30 years to creating, teaching and writing books about the art of free-hand Machine Embroidery. In this DVD, we explore creating flowers, foliage and landscapes with Alison as she provides step by step instruction in how to create the magnificent flowers and photo-like landscapes that have made her famous. In “Part Four – Penylan Lane” Alison combines all the skills learned in Parts 1 thru 3 and adds some new techniques — specifically working with a series of photographs to create an original machine embroidered work of art, “Penylan Lane”. “Penylan Lane” is a road in Oswestry, Shropshire, near the Welsh Border in the English countryside. It has magnificent wild flowers such as daisies, poppies, and cow parsley, hedgerows, fields, and tall wild grasses. Alison uses more than 20 colors of thread to achieve the magnificent and one of a kind landscape, “Penylan Lane”, the Cover and Centerpiece of this educational DVD. The theme music, “Penylan Lane” which plays in the background was written by the Director, Andrew Galli (ascap), specifically for the film.

Duration : 0:1:13

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Astilbes: Creating Machine Embroidery DVD

October 17th, 2011 2 comments

DVD Title: Creative Machine Embroidery with Alison Holt

Alison Holt is a world-class machine embroiderer who devoted nearly 30 years to creating, teaching and writing books about the art of free-hand Machine Embroidery. In this DVD, we explore creating flowers, foliage and landscapes with Alison as she provides step by step instruction in how to create the magnificent flowers and photo-like landscapes that have made her famous. In “Part Two – Astilbes” she draws the shape of an astilbe flower and then proceeds to demonstrate how the sewing machine is used to create the flower and stems.

Duration : 0:1:5

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