Stitching: Back to Embroidery Basics

4.25.2014 In March I was hellbent on learning ribbon embroidery. I bought books. I bought silk ribbon. I dug out my old embroidery hoops. On our roadtrip, I brought 8″ squares of navy blue serge and a variety of ivory ribbons and threads. I can’t practice embroidery in a sketchbook. I’m too unskilled. I actually have to use fabric and thread and needles to experience how they interact. I thought my simple white-on-indigo squares would form a kind of “practice journal.” But alas, one very sad silk daisy was the only output, along with a few rows of  sashiko  straight (yokogushi) stitches. – See more at: http://madinpursuit.com/Journal2014/20140425.html#sthash.IZVEnMX4.dpuf