Ever wanted to learn the exquisite art of Japanese Silk Embroidery? JEC certified teacher, Karen Plater, will be giving two 4-day workshop...

On Monday night at Homewood Embroiderer's Guild, Jane and I will be demonstrating methods for getting your design onto your fabric to st...

For Phase II I'm doing Golden Fan. I've changed some of the colors--from black to dark green and from orangy red to winey red. I...

This is the back of my Bouquet once all was fixed, pasted, steamed and done. I cut a piece of foamcore to size and covered it with thin whit...

I didn't get photos of all of the steps involved in this process, but I did take some as my teacher and a classmate worked on finishing....

I'm working diligently on a number of projects I can't show yet...mostly the summer challenge for Homewood Guild. Our project this y...

I think I may have been overwhelmed by all of the books on Friday because I just kind of shut down for a bit on Saturday. A four-hour long n...

Over the three-day holiday weekend I worked each morning on my Japanese embroidery. I'm at the point where I want to get this one done a...

Thanks to the Vintage Workshop for this image. This was a holiday weekend in the U.S., Decoration Day when I was a child, now Memorial Day. ...

Our teacher took this photo of our class, ready to stitch. I think this was the last day of class last week. We met in the lovely apartment ...

Work is nuts at the moment and taking all of my energy. What's left over is used up getting ready for classes--I teach the crewel chatel...

I've been working 10-12 hour days, at work last week and at work and not this week. Last week I ran a conference at work. A second is in...

I finished it! It's far from perfect but I'm happy and I learned a lot. This weekend I dug into my Japanese Embroidery case and snap...

I got the kits for these wooly lock Christmas trees from Esther's Place . I sat outside on Halloween passing out candy and needlefelti...

Reminder - There will be two special opportunities to learn Japanese Silk Embroidery In Chicago: "Flex Studio" August 17th - 20th...

Coming up next month in Chicago (and, lucky for me, right in Hyde Park where I work), will be a four day workshop in Traditional Japanese Em...