hi… A first of its kind post.

I thought of penning down some of the popular Embroidery blogs available on the net apart from my own EDG of course! The first I cam across is Feeling Stitchy and it is just as its name sounds – full of stitches. This has come up through the efforts of a group of embroiderers who have collectively put in their techniques to bring up a beautiful collage. Many of the designs are traditional hand stitched embroidery patterns giving a nostalgic feel around it. Many images try to bridge the gap between words and action. (words can be confusing leading to the wrong design being printed).

The second I came across is Polka and Bloom. This goes a step further than just embroidery, and also goes into ebooks and embroidery tutorials. They have just begun a Christmas stitch class in Aug 2012. The Nature Jewel Patterns are a highlight.

Stitching Fingers is a forum rather than a blog and has close to 5588 contributing members. This gives a boost to the community who share and learn along with each other. It also has a link to Flickr which makes it easy for images to flow in from the group.

If you are looking at free tips and techniques for hand embroidery primarily in the area of needlework, you must visit Coats & Clark’s Hand Embroidery Center. You would find some great projects here along with line by line tips and images to accomplish the task.

This is the first phase and I would be adding more blogs shortly! Hope you enjoyed reading..

Horse embroidery (part of the animal embroidery set) is becoming famous as a showpiece in some of the large institutions. Horse signifies power and speed and many of the corporates are resorting to these designs in order to motivate their employees.

I came across this free resource at Needlework which gives us machine embroidery horse designs. These are photo stitch embroideries which means that the final product looks real. Check out the image next to this post which is an embroidery pattern. This is done using Embird Sfumato Stitch embroidery software with just 2 colors : black and grey. Simplicity personified! This comes in 2 sizes : 98 x 78 mm, 3.85 x 3.05″ and are available in all machine embroidery formats like art, jef, pes, husqvarna to name a few. To know more about machine embroidery formats, click here.

Welcome to the world of fantasy… All of us love this world where we can express ourselves freely and creatively. Kids live in this world and so do adults! So what would be the works of fantasy which can be brought down to the art and design formats.

We have a range of resources catering to all kinds of tastes. Lets start with the fantasy fairies. Starting with the Unicorn, Pegasus and the Praying Fairie, this resource moves on to finer fantasy creatures like the Pixie Boy, Dove, Frog Prince to name a few. Most of these machine embroidered patterns are for the 4 inches by 4 inches hoop and they would make some cute designs for baby outfits. All designs are created using Janome colors and metallic thread is a must use to get the final perfect embroidery design output.

Closely linked to the fantasy fairies are the fantasy embroidered ladies. These come in larger hoops of 5 inches by 5 inches and available in all machine embroidery formats. The threads recommended here are sulky threads with med lightweight woven fabric or well stabilized knit as the base.

The castles and flying dragons are the fantasy of every small child and there are numerous movies to fuel his thought. The cloud castle, fire breathing dragon, green mystical serpent and the pocket tropper dragon are some of the embroidery appliques that are available and they can indeed be spaced out to form a cute set to fit your loved ones clothes.

The castles can take on a new turn and shape with various permutations available like the patch castle, starburst castle and dream castles and these are available in larger embroidery formats (72 inches by 92 inches) which would form the perfect pattern for your wall hanging at your living room. These patterns are made for twin quilts and each design is unique. For example, the patch castle embroidery pattern which you see alongside this post is constructed of 6 different pieced blocks and 4 different sash blocks, which are pieced into rows to form the castles. There are detailed cutting instructions and piecing instructions for both sizes.

So thats it from my side and I hope you enjoy your own personalised fantasy world… Dont forget to invite me in case you find something new there!

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Gods are the Almighty,  and their true teachings are based on pure Love.   This attracts most humans towards baby and infant Gods in all religions since children are the manifestations of love.    We found a couple of resources dedicated towards religious idol embroidery and thought of putting in a post on the same.

Baby Infant Jesus – very famous and you find this embroidery next to this post.  This is machine embroidery available in ART, DST, EXP, HUS, JEF, KSM, PES, SEW, VIP formats for ready download.  It consists of 13530 stitches, 10 colors and sized at 2.82 inches by 3.59 inches.

Baby Krishna – Indian God well known for his naughty nature and pranks.   This is again machine embroidery available in most formats and can be downloaded.

Baby Angel – A beautific child angel holding a bird is a symbol of peace.