Welcome to Stitchin'spiration's "Friday Fill"! What's a "Friday Fill"? Well, bi-weekly I’m going to introduce you to all kinds of blackwork fills, and try to break them down showing you how truly easy it is to stitch blackwork. Most importantly, I want to show you how...
As a needleworker and a crafter, I'm certain that you've seen or played with variegated threads or yarn. These multi-colored threads make it easy to introduce a lot of color into your needlework project, without having the hassle of constantly changing threads. But have you...
Way back in 2005, I began a new concept of designs - called Needlework Building Blocks. It actually was a way that you - the stitcher - could personalize projects (should you want) and make them you own. It gave you - the stitcher -...
We have talked about color wheels, but now we need to deconstruct them down a little bit and see how they are built. In pulling the color wheels apart, you will begin to see how you can apply the same steps to begin to explore...
One day, a needle, some thread, and a Rolodex walked into a fabric store to get all creative… Wait, what? That's exactly how I feel about creativity and inspiration sometimes. I've always been a creative girl, and even embarked into the world of interior design as my...
As we have previously seen, there are many different ways that color can be organized and studied. We don't need to look at all of them to get us playing with color in fabric and thread. But looking at some of them will help us...
So in those spare moments that you're sitting around thinking about color and color theory (which for a color geek like myself may be more often than I care to admit), what comes to your mind? Why a color wheel, of course! Really, what is...
Color is everywhere, it surrounds us. But, is there really anything simple to color? What is color anyway? We see it everywhere, but what makes it? Wikipedia defines color as "the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, blue, yellow, green and...