Have you heard of an embroidery sketchbook before? If not, this is a friendly warning that you may want to make one at the end of this article! 😉 The concept of keeping an embroidery sketchbook was born already a couple of years ago when I began to experiment with thread-sketching. Thread-sketching, invites you to …
Threadsketching – A personal story of artistic development Did you ever wonder – why architectural embroidery? And what is threadsketching? Truth is, my artist journey didn’t begin with the embroidery medium. It started already when I was just a few years old and discovered that it was much more fun to play with pen and …
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Reflections on being an artist and entrepreneur This article contains the full script of my second studio vlog. This time you get to follow along through video snippets filmed throughout the week. As I was filming and editing the vlog, I couldn’t help but start thinking about how I ended up here. Or more specifically, …
Have you ever tried abstract embroidery art? Did you like it? Did you feel intimidated by it? If you didn’t try it at all, why? First, to ask these kind of proactive questions is a first step in identifying potential creative blockages and ultimately being able to find solutions. Personally, to create abstract art can …
How to paint a watercolor sky on an embroidery design? When you stitch architectural embroidery designs, the sky can sometimes feel like a big empty space. But instead of feeling intimidated by the “emptiness”, look at it as the perfect area for creative exploration. In this guide you will learn all the techniques of how …
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7 things you should know about watercolor embroidery Watercolor embroidery is a stunning combination of watercolor painting and hand embroidery. At a first glance it can look very difficult and intimidating. And to be fair, it is quite tricky to find good information about it. Thus to solve that problem, I have put together an …
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Step by step guide on how I made one of my recent embroidery designs by free hand Free hand embroidery and how to make your own embroidery designs are two of my favourite things. Yet if you’re new to modern hand embroidery as an art form, it can feel overwhelming at first. Therefore, I want …
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3 insider tips by professional embroiderer, on how to create your own free hand embroidery design Creative free hand embroidery is incredibly liberating, stimulating and FUN! Yet very few dare to give it a try. Why? Because we are so entrenched in the idea that what we make has to come out pretty. Let’s imagine …
Everything is embroiderable; A love story to the creative freedom of modern hand embroidery Ever since I began to do embroidery more seriously, I have the mindset that anything is “embroiderable”. I don’t know if the term embroiderable even exists in English. Honestly I just made it up… 😉 Yet, I think that it describes …
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5 Misconceptions about creating your own embroidery designs To create your own embroidery designs is perhaps one of the most fulfilling processes of modern embroidery art. However, it may also be one of the most daunting… Because where to start? How to start? And perhaps the most burning questions of them all… How to know …
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