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A Weaving a Day Keeps Creativity at Play in an Ambitious Year-Long Project
1/365 Textile artist Jessie Mordine Young is embarking on her most demanding project yet. For every day of 2023, she is creating something new as part of her A Weaving a Day (also called A Woven Year)...
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Learn How to Thread Paint and Create Stumpwork Embroidery in Megan...
This post contains some affiliate links. If you make a purchase, Brown Paper Bag may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more here. Do you look at 3D embroidery and find yourself in total awe? (I’m...
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How to Make, Mend, and Find Meaning Through Thread
A long time ago, I was on “book leave” from Brown Paper Bag… and sort of never returned. (Yikes!) Well, I’m happy to announce that the text and fiber-arts-focused projects I was working on are now a...
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Needle-Felted Fiber Art Inspired by the Forest Floor
Harmony I started writing a newsletter this year! Every Friday, I publish Orts: Threads of Creativity. Through it, I collect and share small snippets of creativity: embroiderers, textile artists,...
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Discover Crafty Inspo in Your Inbox Through ‘Orts: Threads of Creativity”
I don’t write in here as often as I’d like. But you know where I publish new content consistently every Friday? My newsletter Orts: Threads of Creativity. Each week I collect and share small snippets...
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How an Embroiderer Honors the National Parks, One Stitch at a Time
This article was originally created for Orts, my weekly newsletter collecting small snippets of creativity: embroiderers, textile artists, illustrators, DIY projects, and how we can make time for our...
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Learn ‘Foolproof Freeform Embroidery’ With the Help of Jennifer Clouston’s...
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Learn How To Embroider Wild Animal Patches With New DIY Craft Kits
Learn to embroider wild animals! I’m excited to announce that I’ve created DIY embroidery kits for you to Make Your Own Menagerie. An axolotl, red panda, and sloth kit are now available in my shop,...
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Doodle Your Knitting With These Illustrative “Doodle Decks”
I’m not a knitter, but I sure admire it. But I do doodle, however, and I know how satisfying it can be to create something quickly. There’s also the opportunity it presents—to be inspired and remixed...
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Ranking All the Ways I’ve Stored Embroidery Thread
I originally published this in my newsletter, Orts. Subscribe to read my essays and get inspiring links to you sent every other week. I have a lot of embroidery thread and a small house, so storage is...
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