Pet Portrait Embroidery: Lovingly Stitch Your Dog or Cat
A Modern Guide to Thread Painting
Cats and dogs seem to always have a paw planted firmly in our hearts. Capture the life in their eyes and the texture of their fur with a unique embroidered pet portrait! Self-taught artist Michelle Staub puts a modern spin on thread painting with her easy-to-learn approach. Get started with 4 basic embroidery stitches, and follow the detailed tutorials to hone your skills. Capture awe-inspiring details of your pet with lessons in full-color thread painting or go clean with a simple line drawing¿the choice is yours. Learn to personalize your art piece with names, dates, and decorative accents. With 20 sample patterns to customize, you can easily recreate any breed!
The Be Mine Cut and Sew Mailbox and Goodies panel is the perfect kit for your little ones to deliver the perfect love note. Whether it's putting a sweet treat in a heart pillow, writing a note and putting it in an envelope or sending something soft and cuddly, there are plenty of ways to send your love. It's also a great way for other friends and family to send messages. Your little one will be so excited to see the flag up because they know hugs and kisses are on the way!
Sewing supplies -- so tiny!
The five hand-formed pins are:
Hand-crank sewing machine
Tape measure
Scissors
Spool with blue thread
Spool with pink thread
The pins are made by hand by an artist in Kyoto who specializes only in making miniature pins. We absolutely love that this is a thing...that someone gets to spend their days not only making miniatures, but only those that are made into sewing pins.
The cypress wood base is adorned with a traditional floral print fabric.
Dimensions: 1-1/8"w x 1-1/8"d; pins are 38mm long
Each pin cushion and set of pins comes boxed.
HIRO Co., Ltd., is a company with over 85 years of experience in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. The company collaborate with Kanazawa-based artisans to create the contemporary and playful products for daily life using with the multiple traditional crafts inherited in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, such as the Kutani porcelain and Yamanaka Lacquerware.
Hiro's work with distinct designs adapting traditional craft techniques nourished in Ishikawa Prefecture are very popular in Japan and highly regarded around the world. They are selected in shops associated with museums or art galleries.
Made in Japan
Breakfast time!
Pins with all the essentials for baking and brewing your morning treats!
The five hand-formed pins are:
Enamel coffee pot
Rolling pin
Ironware tea pot
Knife
Cutting board
The pins are made by hand by an artist in Kyoto who specializes only in making miniature pins. We absolutely love that this is a thing...that someone gets to spend their days not only making miniatures, but only those that are made into sewing pins.
The frying pan is a sturdy ceramic base filled densely to hold pins. It's topped with textured white and yellow poly fabric.
Dimensions: 4-1/8"w including handle x 2-1/2d" x 1-1/2"h; pins are 38mm long
Each pin cushion and set of pins comes boxed.
HIRO Co., Ltd., is a company with over 85 years of experience in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. The company collaborate with Kanazawa-based artisans to create the contemporary and playful products for daily life using with the multiple traditional crafts inherited in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, such as the Kutani porcelain and Yamanaka Lacquerware.
Hiro's work with distinct designs adapting traditional craft techniques nourished in Ishikawa Prefecture are very popular in Japan and highly regarded around the world. They are selected in shops associated with museums or art galleries.
Made in Japan
All supplies and materials are included in this one-day sashiko workshop with guest instructor Sanae Suzuki on Sunday, September 13th and Sunday, October 18th!