Clever Embroidery Series - Monika Kinner Whalen
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...