I mainly use DMC embroidery floss. For DMC No. 5 and No. 8 and for linen thread, I embroider with a single strand.

When most of us were growing up, there were a handful of basic life skills that just about everybody learned. They were simple, useful abilities, like changing a tire, making a dress from a pattern, ...

Chanin (Alabama Stitch Book) adds something extra to this comprehensive anthology of embroidery stitches: plastic prepunched grids that crafters can use to ink fabric for the exact execution of ...

Advocate staff photo by BILL FEIG -- On her sewing cases, Janell Richards used stumpwork, a dimensional embroidery technique that originated in the mid-1600s in England. Advocate staff photo by BILL ...