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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...

It's the height of summer in NYC, and one of the (many) things that went wrong in my house in the past week and a half, we were without air conditi...

You know all those pretty embroidered Hungarian blouses I'm obsessed with? Like this one (which is, in keeping with this week's Matyó theme, stitch...

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...

Dora had the following question about embroidering on the Róza blouse: how do you support the weight if you sew the blouse out of a very light-weig...

The other day I came across a couple sentences quoted on Jenny Hart's blog: We used six-strand cotton for the Jacobean work. The instructor taught...

We just got back from Hungary last night - it was mostly a family trip but we also saw some amazing folklore-y things. This trip turned out to be i...

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...

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...

In the course of stitching this Hungarian embroidery sampler we've thus far used the following stitches: chain stitch, buttonhole stitch, stem stit...

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...

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...