Folk arts badge

embroidery

Today turned out to be craft day in the Galan house.  Miriam tried her hand at embroidery and learned six different stitches - in and out, weave, couching, whip, cross, and satin.  We discovered that this activity meets requirement #5 Traditional Art of the Folk Arts badge.

Folk Arts

Here is a little history of the art of embroidery from the American Needlepoint Guild:
A Quick Run Through History, Part 1 - by Chottie Alderson
A Quick run Through History, Part 2

We worked with this Simple Embroidery book and it was really easy to use.

If you want to try out embroidery, here are some helpful free videos at needlenthread.com.

Have fun! We did :)