OK, I tore out everything I had done and started that green flower over completely. While I still have some issues with it, it is as good as it will get for now. I think it looks pretty good, but I wish I had been able to get the shading a little better, especially on Read More …

This is the first part of the Embroiderer’s Guild of America Group Correspondence Course, Shading Stitches by Judy Jeroy. The left side of the ‘flower’ is stitched in outline stitch, the right in stem stitch. The thread is DMC Medici, a lovely wool thread long since discontinued by DMC. I had never believed that stem Read More …