jenny hart over at

sublime stitching (as you know if you read this blog, i've now taken up embroidery. i have gotten a LOT o' stuff from sublime stitching and i am also going to highly recommend this site to YOU as well. i don't get remunerated for any of my postings or recommendations. i like what i like and i don't gloss things over. i think customer service is VERY important. it's even right up with producing a good product. so i AM telling you this site had GOOD STUFF!!!)

jenny's got a new book coming out

embroidered effects (the pic is a cover of the book taken from the link to chronicle books)

jenny ALSO gives us a cool look into her book with a floss blending tutorial. click on over and see what you can do and get a hint of what's in the book while you're at it!

what i'm working on

bag from the crafty chica

remember, i don't embroider (well i haven't). this is my FIRST real project. so don't be cruel

(i did finish the teeth. i made one yellow and used the glow in the dark thread from sublime stitching

got my order from sublime stitching!!!!

the BEST part of it was the glow in the dark thread it is WICKED cool.

i also got a couple of needles, some transfer paper, a tracing stylus, the craftopia patterns and the flower power patterns. most impressive. PLUS it was sent off to me IMMEDIATELY (i hate waiting, don't you??????)

pic from the sublime stitching site

boing boing has a great posting up

seems like someone is copying sublime stitching and that AIN'T RIGHT! i've posted about this great site before. i'm NOT an embroiderer (or wasn't) BUT coincidentially, YESTERDAY even before i read this boing boing posting i got out my threads, my needles and my hoop. i swear i did. coincidence???????? i think not. i'll be ordering from sublime TODAY. it's the right thing to do!


Mister Jalopy: "$upport Independent Business and Reject the Fakers"


Posted by Mark Frauenfelder,

.................A few years ago, I wrote:

Everything you love, everything meaningful with depth and history, all passionate authentic experiences will be appropriated, mishandled, watered down, cheapened, repackaged, marketed and sold to the people you hate.

Punk rock was profoundly important to me. The power, the rage and the message. It was authenticity incarnate. A clarity and directness with a political message that was overpowering. As big corporations watched, they started to smell money. They circled and studied. And they aped the aesthetics, but we knew it was fake. Now, I hear The Clash or The Stranglers or The Undertones and I am still amazed. The corporate fakers faded away and the real deal survives...............

.................Urban Threads has so brazenly ripped off Sublime Stitching that I can't help but wonder if Jenny Hart is the only artist that has been ripped off. Please, take a moment to look at the Urban Threads catalog of designs and see if you recognize any other chicanery. Let us know, we will pass it along...................

glow in the dark

thread! cool no?

from sublime stitching (shout out to craft magazine, which by the way i FINALLY got a subscription to)