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              Giselle pattern sleeve hacks: a tutorial
            
            
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                The Giselle dress pattern is coming up soon for Frocktober at The Monthly Stitch. In honor of the occasion, I want to show you how to make it with ...
              
             
 
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              Sewing Indie Month: easy Sashiko blouse tutorial
            
            
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                It's my turn to post a tutorial by another participating designer from Sewing Indie Month - and I'm pleased to present Yuki, the designer of Waffle...
              
             
 
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              Sewing Indie Month: my peasant blouse tutorial
            
            
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                As part of Sewing Indie Month, we have created tutorials that we post on each others blogs. My partner to post for is Sylvie of Soma Patterns, and ...
              
             
 
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              How to print embroidery patterns onto fabric with an inkjet printer: a tutorial
            
            
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                With this series, which includes the Snowdrop and the Morning Bouquet patterns, I wanted to try something I'd heard about that would make transferr...
              
             
 
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              Stitching tip: hacking some needlepoint
            
            
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 from the Bewitching Botanicals embroidery pattern set, available here
I've always been drawn to folklore embroidery. There is something about t...
              
             
 
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              T-shirt with Hungarian embroidery: free pattern+tutorial
            
            
              by Kati Lovasz
            
            
              
                
              
            
            
              
                Here is a sweet little free embroidery pattern for you, and a tutorial for how to embellish a t-shirt with Hungarian embroidery. Or any other t-shi...
              
             
 
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              Hungarian Sampler Part Nine (the last): Matyó rose from Northern Hungary
            
            
              by Kati Lovasz
            
            
              
                
              
            
            
              
                This is the ninth and last part of the Hungarian Sampler series, in which we embroider various Hungarian motifs on a tank top made using Colette Pa...
              
             
 
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              Hungarian Sampler Part Eight: "woolly" stitching from Hungary's central plainslands
            
            
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                The next part of our sampler is a symmetrical floral motif with clean lines, inspired by embroidery traditionally made in the central plains of Hun...
              
             
 
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              Hungarian Sampler Part Seven: Variations
            
            
              by Kati Lovasz
            
            
              
                
              
            
            
              
                In the course of stitching this Hungarian embroidery sampler we've thus far used the following stitches: chain stitch, buttonhole stitch, stem stit...
              
             
 
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              Hungarian Sampler Part Six: Stamina - completing our Buzsak witchy stitching
            
            
              by Kati Lovasz
            
            
              
                
              
            
            
              
                It's time to finish the Buzsak witchy stitching section of our sampler blouse!
We will learn two stitches to do this: the backstitch, and the sa...
              
             
 
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              Hungarian Sampler Part Five: Filling in our Buzsak witchy stitching
            
            
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                When you take a look at the stitching we'd done so far in the sampler, you will notice we haven't yet filled in any areas. When you look at this ph...
              
             
 
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              Hungarian Sampler Part Four: witchy stitching from Buzsak
            
            
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                It has taken WAY too long for me to get back to this sampler, but better late than never (I hope)! If you look at the rest of the blog you can see ...
              
             
 
 
 
    
    
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