Taller de bordado at home

Teaching myself embroidery techniques...
Since I can't be in Chile for Karen Barbé's workshop, I am trying to make a sampler of my own looking at her pictures.

Thread conditioner with velcro top

After watching Jenny Hart's Embroidery 101 video for Kin Community I wanted to try using Velcro to separate embroidery floss threads and also try using thread conditioner. I must say I was very happy with both. The conditioner really smooths the floss and the Velcro helps untangling the threads. To make sure I didn't loose the Velcro piece I attached it to the top of the thread conditioner box with Krazy Glue. I use Krazy glue a lot...

Ryan Berkley embroidered animals

One of my first projects for the nursery was this set of embroidered Ryan Berley animals from Sublime Stitching. Next I want to try to embroider these in "needle-painting" as seen on this Ryan Berkley blog entry. It makes these ones look skimpy!