Carli The Quilter

Hello and welcome to this very popular series! This week, I have a Canadian fiber artist who hales from Saskatchewan. I've been following her blog and enjoying her growth and success with admiration.  Let me introduce Monika Kinner-Whalen! I started hand embroidery at the age of 40.  That's not very long ago.  My mom was a landscape artist who did not sew or hand stitch.  I just never grew up with fibre art!  Sometimes I resent that.  For the most part,  it still feels new and terribly exciting!  I bask in it. 2.  teaching I don't even remember how I learned my first French Knot.  I guess it was either a youtube video or an embroidery instruction book.  For the most part, I am self taught.  I began with free machine threadpainting, and added my own 'freestyle' hand stitches for the parts that needed to be hand stitched.  I quickly discovered how handwork - even just a l...

I love to find new people doing some extensive work in embroidery. This next guest is very special indeed, let me introduce Penny Berens of Tanglewoodthreads blog. What age were you when you began hand embroidery stitching? I picked up needle and thread many, many moons ago before the age of seven.  I used to have to embroider tray cloths and tablecloths and napkins as birthday and Christmas presents for the women in our family. What teaching did you have when you started?    It was my two grandmothers and my mother who were my first teachers.  My paternal grandmother was a home economics teacher, though it was probably not called that in her day.  I still have and treasure some of her linens and darned sheets.  My maternal grandmother used to make my dolls dresses beautifully embellished with shadow embroidery.  By the age of seven my mother had instilled in me a love of crewel work which was the type of embroidery we used to ...

This new hand embroidery series is all about profiling skilled talent of embroidery artists all over the world. This first post is profiling the hand embroidery, using cross stitch of Wendy Welch's hand made art of New Zealand. Wendy started this project in January and has now finished this awesome Haunted House all by hand.  Isn't this collection dreamy?? Hello I'm Wendy Welch and I love hand embroidery!         I think I started before I was 10 years old with wool on plastic canvas.    My mum taught me embroidery, knitting, crotchet and cross stitch. She is very talented and studied embroidery at high school.       I take classes at Nancy's Stitch Studio in Wellington, New Zealand. They run a full programme of needlework classes each year and I've had the pleasure of learning from some very experienced teachers there.   I follow Kathy Andrew's blog -  http://www...