ARTandHANDICRAFTS

Feb. 8, 2008

My introduction to Redwork

Thank you, all of you, for your wonderful comments about the Victorian Bouquet wall-hanging I made.  I appreciate your kind words, very much! A comment was made about wanting to learn more about Redwork embroidery.  I'm so enthusiastic about Redwork that sometimes I forget the whole world doesn't know about it!  Isn't that always the case with our interests?  It was at Costco, perusing the magazines, that I first learned of Redwork embroidery.  There was an article in the August 2003 issue of Martha Stewart Living magazine.  I was so intrigued by it that, strict budget or not, I bought the magazine right then and there.  Once home, I read the magazine closely and learned that the article and patterns were available online.  Ah well!  It's nice to have the patterns that were my introduction of Redwork, or, in this case, Bluework (Redwork in blue). Here are the links to the articles and patterns that were the beginning of a satisfying activity for DD and I: Bird Embroidery Projects (Martha Stewart website) Bird Embroidered Quilt (Martha Stewart website) State Birds outline embroidery patterns - PDF (Martha Stewart website) Later, I'll write more later about Redwork / Outline Embroidery.  Also, I'll post web links to online articles and our favourite free patterns.  We plan to share photographs of our Redwork projects with you.

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