Posts Tagged ‘art’

Woodgrain Embroidery For The Seasons

Oh wood grain, still such a hot item in the design world. I’ve seen it on mugs and stickers, and all over letterpress. I have to say though, I have never seen it used to such delicate and gorgeous effect as in these stitched patterns. These beauties are part of Purl Soho’s new embroidery collection in collaboration with Egg Press. I love the effect when combined with typography, and the bold pops of color. It puts me just in the right kind of mood for the changing seasons.

Check out all the prettiness over on their blog.

You Are More Beautiful

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I just love this piece. It makes my eyes hurt and my heart dance.

This piece was stitched up by Mel of Thrifted, all 11,399 cross stitches (Wow!)

She made the pattern herself using a computer program and then painstakingly stitched it out by hand. Read more about her process and see more photos over on her blog!

Amazing Animated Blackwork Music Video

You think stitching one design is time consuming, check this out…

Artist Toni Buckby created a stop motion embroidery video that is just stunning. The track is called “Why you so cold?” by group called Wet Nuns, a group with a growing popularity in the UK. I have no doubt that a unique music video like this is bound to get them noticed worldwide.

Click the image above to watch the video, and after your brain has melted from trying to process all that work, go have a peek at a little behind the scenes on the process over on her blog.

Giant Rustic Cross Stitch

Raumseelig had this old board laying around for ages, until she finally discovered what it really wanted to be was the coolest cross stitch canvas ever. See more on her German blog Raumseeling, which you can get google to translate or just ogle the pictures.

Someone find me an old door and a drill stat.

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Digitized Art by Jess Larson

I love finding new an unexpected machine embroidery artists. I especially love finding out that they’re local! The fab Mr X Stitch featured embroidery artist Jessica Larson today, who happens to be a Professor of Studio Art and artist from Morris, Minnesota.

Her work is a sublime mix of machine and hand embroidery, digitized with some stunning detail. I just love seeing what creative folks get up to when they get their hands on digitizing software. See more on the X Stitch post, or check out her website!