Needlework

Textile artist Sharon Boggon provides past exhibitions, textiles, hand embroidery, crazy quilts, and stitching dictionary. [not suitable for all browsers]

Devoted to the advancement of embroidery as an art form. Features publications, membership and certification information.

Annotated links to Renaissance portraits and paintings featuring blackwork, at the Elizabethan Practical Companion.

Counted cross stitch design, needlepoint, quilting, chicken scratch, candlewicking and crafts.

Publishes and distributes heirloom quality cross stitch and counted thread needlework designs by Nan Caldera.

Traditional handpainted needlepoint designs, custom design and list of shops.

Links to selected crazy quilt embroidery sites.

A group with an image gallery for showing off embroidery work.

Image gallery of embroidery as an art. Original designs.

Stitch samples and diagrams, free projects, small quilt pattern charts and reference information.

Offers information about sewing machines: threading diagrams, owners manuals, repair instructions.

Smocking and sewing projects and how to's.

Sewing company that offers custom home decor such as slipcovers, window treatments, kids furniture, and baby bedding. Slipcover classes also taught. Located in Peoria, AZ.

Finely detailed Victorian house designs. Includes a miniature house series. Historical information about each house is included in the chartpaks.

Offers updated versions of nostalgic designs for cross stitch and needlepoint. Includes shop locator.

Marielle Zang Pujol presents her nature, animal and seasonal designs.

Offers cross stitch patterns with designs inspired by 18th and 19th century samplers and show towels.

Free original cross stitch patterns for both beginner and experienced stitchers.

Region area includes Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Our purpose is to foster standards of excellence in the practice of embroidery through an active program of education.

Aims to impart the satisfaction of working with fabric and threads, and the excitement of exploring the design process. Affiliated with the Embroiderers' Guild, UK.

International guild with information on chapters, activities, awards, and seminars.

Temari book author, Barbara B. Suess, shares temari photos by level of stitching, free temari patterns and book information.

A forum for students and teachers of the Japanese Embroidery Center in Georgia, USA.

Sashiko design, instruction and gallery. Kofu (traditional fabric) gallery.

Non profit organization for needlepoint (including most handwork on evenweave). Events, national and chapter information, "Needle Pointers" magazine, correspondence courses, certification for teaching and judging.

Vikki Leigh Martin holds sewing and millinery classes for students of all levels in Southland Australia.

Martha Pullen heirloom sewing technique. Teaching the use of the Brother, Babylock, Bernina, Pfaff and Viking machines and their respective software. Located in Fountain Valley, California.

Free patterns including adult bibs, isolette covers, and wheelchair totes.

Designs, project pictures and other hobbies of interest. Also beginner digitizing and Noah's Ark set.

Free designs to download in PES format.