Creative resources

People often ask me for suggestions about websites and artists  to investigate , so I've put together some of my  favourites.

This list is by no means exhaustive, and if you have any thoughts or suggestions then please get in touch.

My favourite sites for information, stitching tutorials and inspiration......

Stitchin Fingers
Brilliant social network site for anyone who loves textiles

Pintangle
Sharon Boggon's  (Sharonb's) terrific daily  textile blog, covers online resources, news and information about contemporary and historical textiles, embroidery and crazy quilting, the fiber and book arts including journals.

inaminuteago
Contains Sharonb's excellent on line stitch collection

Hand Embroidery Network
On-line community for contemporary hand embroiderers

Mary Corbet's Needle and Thread
Excellent traditional embroidery  site with a wealth of advice, techniques  traditional patterns and information.

Trish Burr
Totally exquisite needlepainting!

Di Van Neikerk
Wonderful silk ribbon embroidery and lots of eye candy.

Helen M Stevens
The  English doyenne of  needlepainting.

Karen Ruane
Just beautiful stitching!

Needleprint
A great resource to find out about antique  and historical needlework

Feeling Stitchy
Flikr embroidery group blog,  covers a wealth of embroidery  styles with  lots of contemporary stitching. Full of diverse and thought provoking interesting stitching.

Sew in Love
Elizabeth Braun's extremely entertaining blog covers fine embroidery, cross stitch, raised and counted work.

The Raspberry Rabbits 
Michelle May is a textile artist who makes wonderful things using her unique 'folk art fusion' style

Spirit Cloth
Jude Hill's fantastic blog  detailing her 'slow cloth' working  methods.

Big B 
Kim's lovely blog is full of gorgeous, colourfull  stitching and designs and helpful tutorials. Check out her 100 stitches project.


Art Dolls

There are so many  great sites, but these stand out for me

Susie McMahon Dolls
The work of the totally amazing Susie McMahon

Sandy Pine Art Dolls  My mentor! Sandy makes the most wonderful dolls in cloth and clay -  check out some of her older posts for some great demonstrations.

Patti Medaris Culea  
The doyenne of cloth doll making - and a lovely  lady!

The Magic Bean 
Colleen Babcock is a doll designer with an interest in making dolls that have a practical purpose as well as decorative one.She hosts a free project roundup every Friday.

Sewing with Moonbeams 
The beautiful dolls of Shashi Nayagam, one of the UK's most talented art doll artists

Papillon Bleu  Patricia's dolls are whimsical, charming and magical! Her blog is beautiful.

Tact Iles
Linda Misa's  imaginative work


Blue Heron Dolls
Deanna Hogan's delightful and charming dolls.

Cloth Doll Artistry
Great networking site with  lots of resources (small subscription)

Cloth and Clay Dolls
Fun and informative networking site with tutorials and resources ( small subscription)

Doll Street Online doll club - srt and doll making classes and downloadable e patterns ( small subscription, but classes and information accessible to all)













































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































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