Today, I have another Craftside exclusive project. This one is by Lisa Solomon, author of Knot Thread Stitch: Exploring Creativity through Embroidery and Mixed Media, and features Kreink thread. Lisa has designed a wonderful diamond pattern that uses Kreink thread to accentuate the diamond sparkle!
How to embroider diamonds with Kreink thread.
Lisa shared that this project works great with any of the many colors and weights of Kreink thread.
First up transfer the diamond image to your fabric with a water soluble tracing pen.(If you need details on how to do this technique and more grab yourself a copy of Knot Thread Stitch.)
Then just backstitch with 3 different threads.
Feel free to download this diamond gem pattern and stitch yourself up some bling with Kreink thread.
More about the Quarry book:
Knot Thread Stitch: Exploring Creativity through Embroidery and Mixed Media
by Lisa Solomon
Knot Thread Stitch presents a modern, experimental, and creative approach to thread and embroidery projects. You'll find fun and surprising project ideas, a unique artistic approach, and unconventional mixed-media materials such as stamps, paint, sequins, paper, and shrinky dinks. With easy-to-follow steps and project variations, this book also includes project contributions and embroidery patterns from a long and stellar list of renowned artists and bloggers, including Lisa Congdon, Camilla Engman, Heather Smith Jones, and Amy Karol, just to name a few.
Profoundly interested in the idea of hybridization (sparked from her hapa heritage), Lisa Solomon’s mixed media works revolve thematically around domesticity, craft, and masculine and feminine triggers. She is drawn to found objects altering them conceptually so that their meanings and original uses or intents are re-purposed. She often fuses “wrong” things together – recontextualizing their original purposes, and incorporating materials that question the line between art and craft. Visit her online at http://www.lisasolomon.com.
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Also if you are looking for a creative and fun retreat check out
artstream ARC - Art {retreat} Camp
August 14-18, 2013, Mayhew Island, Newfound Lake, Bristol, NH
Imagine going to summer camp as an adult, on a forested island in a pristine freshwater lake. Imagine creating in this special place alongside a small nurturing community of seasoned instructors and others like yourself.
ARC is a place to play, a quiet place to learn, a setting to be refreshed in and a time to reconnect to yourself. Whether you are a seasoned arts person or have never picked up a paintbrush, your creative self will blossom here!
Refresh your soul and creativity
artstream's belief that we are born creative drives our interest in hosting this island retreat designed to open up and nurture the creative side of you. The daily schedule has a diverse offering of creative workshops taught by top-notch teachers: Rachel Blumberg, Mati McDonough, Lisa Solomon, Mimi Kirchner, Jess Greene, Monica Pasqual, Rebecca Emberley and director Susan Schwake. They will be your guides for the stay. Evenings will bring a variety of programming and there are times during the day to relax, hike, swim or canoe around the island too.
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