#SUBLIME STITCHING OFFLINE#
Jenny: I was not selling offline to start, Sublime Stitching grew out of a blog, I started blogging in 1999. How were you with selling the products, was it online or were you selling offline as well? This was probably before any easy eCommerce platforms came along. 2001, this was in internet age, is a very long time ago. I really wanted to do something new with it, get people excited about hand embroidery again because it was a new found passion for me and it’s kind of like when you discover something for the first time, you want to get everyone else into it and that was really the impetus for Sublime Stitching.įelix: Very cool. Core to that is working with artists, I started working and collaborating with a lot of artists whose work I really like that you might not otherwise see as commercial craft design. In 2001, I launched Sublime Stitching and I began publishing iron on transfer patterns, they’re templates that you put on to fabric that you can stitch along the lines. I knew that you could something new with it, you could make embroidery anything, it can always be contemporized. I saw a real need for it, I thought there was a generation that was not taking it up and wasn’t interested in it because they equated it with the older aesthetic. What I do is surface embroidery which is kind of like or on jean jackets and that had just … There weren’t really companies actively designing for hand embroidery anymore. Through the ‘80s, it really kind of fell out of fashion and you really only had die hard cross-stitchers that were still working. This used to be such a mainstay of stores, was embroidery patterns. It was something that I got addicted to as an artist, I started experimenting with it. Jenny: Well, I started designing patterns for hand embroidery and kits and tools and textiles at a time when people really weren’t working in hand embroidery anymore. Welcome Jenny.įelix: Tell us a bit more about what does it mean to … What does hand embroidery mean, what is the product that or products that you sell? Sublime Stitching is a contemporary studio for hand embroidery and was started in 2001 and currently based at Los Angeles, California. That’s fine with me since I picked this up learn what I need to know to start my first project, but if you want the iron-on patterns, make sure to buy the physical copy of this book.Felix: Today I’m joined by Jenny Hart from. Unfortunately, because I picked up an ebook copy of this book, the patterns are not actually included since the physical copy comes with iron-on patterns. I found much of the information covered valuable and look forward to starting my first embroidery project when my fabric arrives.
Of course, diagrams are not for everyone, but it’s easy to find how-to videos to pair with this book. I found that was not the case with this book as Jenny Hart supplies a variety of comprehensive stitch diagrams that are paired with written instructions.
The only thing about starting a new craft with a book is that diagrams can be difficult to understand. If you’re a cross stitcher like me, some of the information may overlap, but it’s all laid out in simple and easy to understand terms for those new to embroidery.
#SUBLIME STITCHING HOW TO#
Jenny Hart offers a great beginners guide that covers everything from the type of fabric one might want to use to tips on how to finish up your projects. I recently decided to learn how to embroider, so when I saw this book at my local library, I knew I had to pick it up.
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