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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