Please visit ChellyWood.com for FREE printable sewing patterns and craft tutorials. This image shows a multi-colored couched filling stitch and offers the overlay of the website ChellyWood.com where this embroidery tutorial video can be found. The tutorial teaches the step-by-step embroidery lesson for the couched filling stitch. This is a hand embroidery tutorial video lesson, which is posted on YouTube for free.

#Embroidery: Couched Filling Stitch Hand Embroidery #Tutorial

I’m sort of backpedaling today. Last Christmas I created a pattern for an adorable windmill pincushion. I’ve never posted the pattern, but in order to make the windmill pincushion, I’ll also need to create tutorials showing how to make the various embroidery stitches I used for the windmill pincushion project. So in this video, you’ll see my adorable windmill pincushion. However that pattern isn’t available … Continue reading #Embroidery: Couched Filling Stitch Hand Embroidery #Tutorial

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FREE #FireFighter bear #patterns @ ChellyWood.com show our support for #FireFighters

Even though August is over, fire season isn’t, here in North America! I hope some of you will show your support for our hard-working firefighters by making a firefighter bear for someone you know. It reminds us all that “Only YOU can prevent forest fires!” So here are the patterns you’ll need: Pattern 1 for FireFighter Bear Soft Toy Pattern 2 for FireFighter Bear Soft … Continue reading FREE #FireFighter bear #patterns @ ChellyWood.com show our support for #FireFighters

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Soft #toy bear #DIY tutorial comes with free #patterns @ ChellyWood.com

As my regular followers know, I posted the patterns for making this bear on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. But if you just popped in to ChellyWood.com for the first time, it might be easier for me to just supply you with those two patterns right here: Pattern 1 for FireFighter Bear Soft Toy Pattern 2 for FireFighter Bear Soft Toy Monday’s blog post offered … Continue reading Soft #toy bear #DIY tutorial comes with free #patterns @ ChellyWood.com

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Create a Swedish “Pocket” Purse for Your 18-Inch #Dolls @ ChellyWood.com #Broderie #Felt

In the next two weeks, I’m going to teach you how to make a Swedish purse, which I’m told they call a “pocket” in Sweden. Rather than having a strap that goes over your shoulder, these pocket-purses wrap around your waist, like a belt. However it would be easy to alter the pattern to include a shoulder strap if you like.   But one of … Continue reading Create a Swedish “Pocket” Purse for Your 18-Inch #Dolls @ ChellyWood.com #Broderie #Felt