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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aaaand… another HEN feature (yesss)

When Sarah at the Hand Embroidery Network gave me the keys to drive the blog, I was SO excited I could have PEED! But out of respect for my readers, I started dreaming up ways to contribute constructively instead;0}
Hopefully, you’ve already seen the Caught Being Fearless feature where I intro’d the fearless and fabulous stitcher [...]

New HEN feature is LIVE…

Caught Being Fearless is up and readable… for a little inspiration go *HERE*
(The stitcher I’ve blogged is FABulous!!) Jude is at Home: Interping Monet:
MUST see!!

I Get Around… & Stitch is Busting out all over

13 April 2010
SO many great things happening…
First: check THIS out: FiberGraf   *LINK* It’s a WONderful collab between embroidery artist Iviva Olenick &  graffiti artist Jon Baker. Together they are creating some really vibrant work where Iveva uses stitch to embellish & interpret graffiti tagging & designs from Jon’s black book. Very cool.

Second: I’ve made TONS [...]