Freedom of Stitch: Where Art & Craft Meet Stitch™ Mixed Media Embroidery Patterns & Workshops, by Victoria Crowder Payne

Freedom of Stitch: Where Art & Craft Meet Stitch!™ Home of the Fearless Stitcher Series: Be Fearless & GO Stitch Up the Place!™ Featuring mixed media embroidery Patterns, & Workshops! WELCOME!! email me at victoria@freedomofstitch.com

NEW ALLIANCE FORGED: Fearless Stitch Coalition!!!

FLORILEGIUM NeedleArts in Parkville MO AND FREEDOMOFSTITCH ARE LAUNCHING SOMETHING AMAZING*** &ENERGIZING*** &FEARLESS*** ARTISTIC NOURISHMENT*** ARE YOU READY TO BLOW THE DOORS OFF YOUR CREATIVE VEHICLE? Photobucket It's fabric&paper... fiber&floss... freestyle&precision... figurative&abstract... books&canvases... IT'S THE BIRTH OF OUR CREATIVE TRIBE... ARE YOU READY TO BE BORN? Workshops, meetups, pow wows to summons your creative mojo. Together we will Be Fearless... We will be artists. Detailed schedule coming in October 2010 -- Themed StitchDowns * stitchtagging * social graffiti jams (all artists welcome) * LifeStitch-n-Spin ft live models & djs to keep the threads spinning -- and MORE MORE MORE..... Don't Sign Up Unless You MEAN it ;0} Link to more info: **Link To Info**

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***EMAIL ME TO REGISTER, OR CLICK *BUY NOW* BUTTON BELOW -- you'll receive a confirmation email in 48 hours with instructions*** ONLINE CLASSES DELIVERED VIA FIBERaRTSmIXEDmEDIA FORUM *Click: **Link To Schoolhouse** for a virtual tour of classes* ***************************** STITCHER'S GARDEN BOOK***: mixed media embroidered journal - 6 sessions $85 Begins October 23 2010 *Click here: **Link To Schoolhouse** for a virtual tour and click Buy Now to register!**
Photobucket *****6STITCHEDSHE'S***** Starts Autumn 2010***** 6 shes ***6STITCHED SHE'S*** 6 sessions - $85 - Begins November 6 2010 mixed media embroidery feat: painting, piecing fabric, paper & sheers, using metallics & wire work, embellishing with feathers, text, & GlOw in the DaRk ThReAds!!! *Click here: **Link To Schoolhouse** for a virtual tour * Click Buy Now to begin your adventure!
************************** ******METALLICS & WIRE WORK for Embroidery NOW REGISTERING LOCAL WORKSHOPS!*** (cuz you know we like getting rowdy with tools!) *** Classes at JoAnn Northland KCMO August - Sept - Oct *** Registration open NOW for brooches, pendants, & bracelets: *Click here: **Link To Schoolhouse** for dates & times* Photobucket ** ************************** ***THE FEARLESS STITCHBUGGING KIT*** (a complete kit for deploying fearless public embroidery -- a thing whose time has come!) Check out the StitchBomb Chronicles **Link To Chronicles**
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New She, Woo Hoo She…

Over in the market, this Watercolor She is making her snazzy debut! Collage her, stitch her, or just stare into the all knowing eye for inspiration…
come on, it could work!
Meanwhile, I’ll be sketchin the zoo animals for release next week.  Wish me mangy critters! (stinky with CHARacter, that is!)

New design in market!

Ain’t he great?  As the weather continues to warm–yee hoo!–I keep dreaming of the ZOO!! And all the wonderful animals!  This gator is available NOW in the Fearless Stitcher Market, and will soon have a few zoo-y friends!  Watch Out!

SWISH: New designs in development!

This little gator is the beginning of a set of zoo designs which will trickle into the Fearless Stitcher Marketplace this week.  I don’t know if it’s the cold weather or just the want of animals to sketch, but I’ve been doodling all about the zoo this weekend.  This design was painted with watercolor pencils [...]

Brazilian Dimensional Embroidery Int’l Guild links Freedom of Stitch!

Woo Hoo and throw the confetti! The lovely administrator of the BDEIG contacted me and shares our belief that it is crucial for our stitching pleasure to perfect the versatile bullion stitch! I’ll be including a Hardest Working Stitch feature on it in an upcoming post, but suffice it to say that the BDEIG is [...]

SWISH: She keeps truckin…

Well, in addition to the *new* products in the Fearless Stitcher Market I have worked a few new stitchy elements on the Butterfly She

Not only is it finished for me–but for YOU and now available in the market!
Additionally, I’ve started a few projects for the coming weeks that use the lovely buttonhole stitch–which in all [...]

SWISH: new she in the studio!

I’ve been itching to tackle a bigger She–the previous is about 12″ square, but I want a grid with bigger cells, and so…

TAH-DAH!! I’ve taken a 16″ square frame and started working in an irregular grid to get the media mixing going on.  Some stamps, some collage, and next she’ll get some watercoloring madness to [...]

SWISH: today FoS.com puts on lipstick & rouge

For the SundayWednesdayInStudioHappening–come on in! Look around.  FoS has had time to smoothe on a bit of lipstick and pat on a little rouge–she’s certainly feeling more ready to face the world and be seen.  So that’s basically what today has been about–and my Artfire column which is (whisper) a week late. I know, I [...]

New Mixed Media She develops

SWISH–SundayWednesdayInStudioHappening
Consider this a belated SWISH (I completely missed Sunday)–but I’m already on top of Wednesday as I’m stitching a new She (read on for the story…) This post is similar to blogspot–but read on for new content:
Meanwhile…
– handling the transition to the new website is certainly driving me to fresh combinations of baddy-bad words (tho [...]

Yes, we’re really here!

In spite of all the setbacks and frustration, the site is finally up and continues to come together.  There are lots of posts to explore and tabs to visit–don’t miss the free tutorials on transfers–they will be helpful in the days ahead as I start posting projects.  I’ve also loaded up the studio and gallery [...]