Do you sometimes need help telling what colour something is? That might sound a little strange… Who needs help seeing colour better? After all, red is red, blue is blue, right? Well, ish! How we perceive colour is very much affected by it’s context. As I found out the hard way while stitching my Royal […]
Before getting too caught up in what I’d like to focus on in 2026, I find it can be useful to look back on the previous year. So I’ve been thinking about my 2025 stitching and embroidery highlights. What did I particularly enjoy? What do I want more of? What do I want to avoid!?
What’s one of the most overwhelming things about stitching a detailed silk shading embroidery? If you’re anything like me, it’s how do you keep a track of all those different threads?! Let me share with you the challenge I faced. Lessons learned. And most importantly, what I’ve learned not to do! For my Royal School
There was so much preparation for my Royal School of Needlework (RSN) Certificate botanical silk shading project, that I wrote two blog posts about it! You can catch up on the preparation work here and here. Now with all that preparation done, I was finally ready to start the stitching of my botanical silk shading
In my last post about my silk shading module for the Royal School of Needlework (RSN) certificate, I shared a lot of the preparation work. Of which there was a lot! However, that wasn’t all!! I still needed to pick the thread colours for my silk shading. And of course there was some sampling to
Having completed my blackwork portrait of Bracken, I’m now half way through the Royal School of Needlework (RSN) certificate. My next module is botanical silk shading, for which there’s A LOT of preparation to do! I shouldn’t really be surprised by this point in my RSN journey. 😂 And I’ve certainly felt that the preparation
It’s been quite a while since I last posted about my Royal School of Needlework blackwork embroidery module. As it’s been quite a while since I’ve worked on it! However, in the last few months I was able to get back to class again and my blackwork has now been handed in for assessment! Woohoo!
Are you a fan of details? My attention to detail has often been commented on. I’ve always been drawn to little details. So getting into the details of Bracken’s facial features in my blackwork embroidery for the Royal School of Needlework certificate was something I looked forward to! Would that still have been the case
It’s been a little while since I’ve posted an update on my blackwork assessment piece for the Royal School of Needlework (RSN) certificate. I’ve enjoyed and learnt so much while stitching this piece. Meaning there’s loads I want to share! Today I’m going to focus on what I’ve learnt about creating texture in blackwork. I
One of the criteria for the Royal School of Needlework Certificate blackwork module is to have an area where you blend two or more stitch patterns together. This is perhaps one of the trickier parts of the module. So I of course wanted to jump straight into blending my blackwork stitches! Before starting the module,
