tip: free lesson - Episode 3: Make a Christmas stocking

From Colouricious, the Talking Threads Christmas Special:

"Myfanwy Hart encourages you to explore the embellishing machine further, with her Christmas stocking."

Colouricious started sending 10th October 2011 a weekly textile project for free.
There will be 8 Christmas Episodes.

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Talking Threads: Myfanwy Hart

In episode 7 of Talking Threads Myfanwy Hart shows how to mix up cold-water dyes and how to get a whole range of different colours on the same piece of fabric, according to the strength of the solution. Myfanwy is not only a specialist in dyeing fabric, but also a machine embroiderer and she has written a book "The Embellisher: Let’s Get Started" (2006)
The book and the DVD's Inspired Embellishing Level 1 & 2 are available at her shop.
Regretfully the direct link to this episode went offline.

In this video from Colouricious Myfanwy tells more about dyeing:

This is a taster of a DVD with an introduction to machine felting, often referred to as embellishing:

This is a taster of Inspired Embellishing Level 2:

Have a nice day!

More links with info:

• Overview of all Talking Threads episodes
• Myfanwy Hart's website