Heirloom Legacy
Carol Harris combines a tailored jacket, hand-embroidered blouse, and a knife-pleated skirt for the essence of winter elegance. Complete instructions on making a knife-pleated skirt, finessing a beautiful embroidery design to fit any size collar or round yoke, and tailoring a jacket pattern for the final touch are provided. |
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Greek Key
This ancient design, consisting of symmetrical repeats, is beautifully applied with lace to a linen hand towel.
Project kit
available. Click here
for details. |
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A Basic Guide to Color &
Embroidery
Learn when to use the various shades of green in projects (from brights and darks to muted and pastels). Trudy Horne showcases these guidelines with a dress pairing a shirred/smocked bodice and a floral embroidered lower edge.
Project kit
available. Click here
for details.
 Click
here to read Trudy Horne's
article on pattern adjustments for an Unsmocked Back Yoke
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Dear Santa (Pictorial)
Christmas cookies bring smiles to everyone, even Ebenezer Scrooge. Garments–such as smocked pajamas and robe, redwork jumper and jacket, appliquéd overalls, and holiday dresses–are all inspired from cookies. Creative Needle takes you from Christmas Eve to morning to holiday festivities with this year’s collection.
Project kits available. Click here
for details.
Click
here to download Martha
Foose's gingerbread cookie recipe.
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Christmas Ornament Challenge
Fresh ideas and creative interpretation overflowed when Creative Needle invited six top designers to participate in our first-ever ornament challenge. Each received a mitten-shaped cookie cutter to use as a pattern and the rest was up to the designer. The resulting ornaments range in techniques from smocking, machine embroidery, to shadow appliqué. Each unique design will inspire you to add a few new ornaments to your tree and they make great gifts. |
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Smock Plate 1
“Christmas Lights”–Debbie Hayden makes the holidays merry and bright with a strand of lights around a dress collar.
Project kit
available. Click here
for details. |
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Smock Plate 2
“Gingerbread Children”–just in time for Christmas, this original picture smocking design, brings to life the memories and smells of Mom’s gingerbread cookies.
Project kit
available. Click here
for details. |
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