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 http://www.fibermixedmedia.com/page/online-classes *Click: **Link To Schoolhouse** for a virtual tour of classes* ***************************** STITCHER'S GARDEN BOOK***: mixed media embroidered journal - 6 sessions $85 *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 - 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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stitching the Root

Why, yes, that is a dang lot of stitches! The Root is slowly evolving into a cool beasty.  So far, I’ve put in about a thousand stitches including stem, running, fly, fern, and a ton of couching, but have several thousand more to finish for the Campanella gallery show in July.

Funny, but living with this [...]

Spring is buggin out all over!!

In keeping with my colorful hopes for spring, I’ve begun working on these little buggers for the next design sheet (available in the market Saturday 21 March).  Imagine one on a picnic napkin… it would be the best lunch EVER (and maybe if you bring your own bugs, the real ones will stay away…   aw [...]

SWISH: Link-a-palooza!!

That’s right–I spent 2 hours for your educational pleasure and uploaded all my links to the right sidebar.  I like having my links handy anyway, so now we all can use them!  Over the coming months I’ll be highlighting my favorites, and adding a few, but the list is pretty comprehensive for my students and [...]

Globe thistle original…

I LOVE this flower, and it was one of the first I ever did way back in 2005–hard to believe I’ve only been stitchin for a few years! After reading Jane Nichols book on stumpwork  *link* I want gaga over her style and started creating my own versions of favorite flowers.  I have a vivid [...]

Stitch on text…

So, I’ve been working on stitching paper to fill up an altered book of stitch, and have been pretty successful. I like the tension of a sheet of paper, but once you’ve pierced the page  you can’t change your mind or there’s a hole left. I’m also making cut outs which I then cover with [...]

Alphabird all tarted up!

What a bird! With a little watercolor pencil and a paintbrush, these Alphabirds (*link*) can be quite snazzy — I’m about to stitch this one up for a messenger bag (I’ll give it a clear gel medium wash before stitching to make the paint waterproof).  And then I’m thinking about the Zoo again — I [...]

SWISH: Introducing Alphabirds!

Having 2 ducklings of my own, it was only a matter of time before I unveiled the first in the Kidstitch line:  Alphabirds!!  We had a blast coming up with these, and have been coloring and stitching them like cray-zay!
Head over to the shop and get inspired–then GO stitch up the place!