Looking for something stitchy and sweet, without pulling out the needle and thread? These Cross-Stitch Cookies from Design*Sponge are just the ticket, and look super easy to make. What an amazing little touch these would make at a craft event! Hmm, I’ll have to add it to the list of things to have at our big Urban Threads Craftathon Dance Party event that currently only exists in my head. Someday…
Check out the tutorial on how to make these sweet crafty treats here!
Want a super cute way of incorporating stitches into decor other than pillows? We just saw some awesome designer embroidered furniture, but now there’s a DIY way!
This little street has a sweet little tutorial on how to hack an ikea stool and add a little cross stitch embroidery. Check it out here.
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I just love how today’s designers are using traditional embroidery techniques in totally non-traditional ways. Like say, embroidered Corian furniture from Yaroslav Galant.
In the top photo you might be forgiven for thinking the design is printed on the furniture, given that Corian is a hard molded surface, but you can see in the second photo the embroidery designs were actually applied through holes added to the hard material. The intricate designs themselves were made to celebrate traditional Ukrainian embroidery.
See more about the project over on freshhome.
Embroidery artist Evelin Kasikov’s work has to be seen to be believed. She creates amazing stitched work focusing on the optical use of CMYK colors in order to create form. Instead of the usual printed dots, Kasikov creates her designs will precisely placed stitches of color. Her amazing portrait series (last above) has been making the rounds of late, but I really think her whole embroidery portfolio is worth a look.
Check it all out on her website.
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Graffiti and cross stitch artist Eliot Henning has been hard at work lately stitching up this awesome series of cross stitched robots. I so love the visual offset of the grunge paint and the clean x’s of the embroidery. Plus… robots!
Nothing not to love here.
See 8 of the 10 completed robots over on his flickr page, or check out more of Eliot’s amazing graffiti and comic inspired embroidery on his webpage.
