Embroidery stumpwork

Learn Stumpwork Embroidery techniques including padding with felt, raised embroidery stitches, adding slips and creating wired needlework petals

If you’re ever curious about stumpwork embroidery, but don’t know where to start, we’ve got just the tutorial for you! Our easy-to-follow instructions will have you stitching away like a pro…

Green frog stumpwork embroidery by Megan Zaniewski; Megan Zaniewski finds time for stitching most days. Inspired by the outdoors, she creates three dimensional stumpwork embroidery art.

Throwback Thursday. This is one of my favourite pieces. I wanted to try stumpwork technique to recreate Cicely Mary Barker’s Flower Fairy. Actually, the whole piece looks like an opened book. When I was mounting this piece, the Duchess of Cambridge (Yes! It’s Catherine!) came to visit us at Royal School of Needlework. Before we […]

Oh golly! I've been wanting to write this book review for Alison Cole's new book, The Stumpwork Masterclass: Raised and Embossed Embroidery, for a long time! If you acquire this book - and you must, if you have any interest in stumpwork, historical or contemporary - you'll understand the delay.

Fantasy Remembered by Dawn Pollard

French Knots are one of my very favorite embroidery stitches, especially when they are used in high concentration. Di van Niekerk shares a nice tutorial

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Finally – a finish of sorts! The stumpwork elements for Late Harvest are all stitched up and ready to go! Not that they have anywhere to go yet – I still have to finish the left half of the main part of the project. But it’s always nice to accomplish a minor goal, isn’t it? ...