My angels to date are Hardanger and Smocked – lacy, wing needled, floral , and other varieties.
Smocked angels have smocked wings. They are gathered then embroidered in the hoop.
Instructions include how to make the body and head with a skirt to add the smocked wings too.
Hardanger angels most fit into greeting cards to send to that special person.
This small Hardanger Angel fits perfectly in cards and hanging on the tree.
Floral angels fit into greeting cards as well.
Other angels are embroidered in sections and the zigzagged together.
Take an angel home today!
 | Hardanger Angels - Bella |
| Hardanger Angels - Heather |
| Hardanger Angels - Mary Jane |
| Hardanger Floral Angels |
| Hardanger Ornaments |
| Smocked Angels |
Hardangish is my term I coined for my Hardanger Machine Embroidery because, let’s face it, no machine can truly duplicate handmade Hardanger embroidery. But I try. As a consequence, I’ll sometimes use the terms interchangeably when talking about my machine embroidery interpretation of this fabric art style.
These designs require fabric and water soluble stabilizer.
Some of my Hardanger designs are free-standing designs (not free standing lace). Rather, they’re of ornaments, bookmarks, etc. which can also can be applied to items impossible to hoop. In some instances, they can even be sewn together into larger projects…that really make a statement.
Hardanger and jeans are an unlikely combination. But I like embroidery on jeans. Regrettably, they’re too much trouble to hoop. However, free-standing designs make embellishing those favored jeans sooo easy. Slide the pants leg over the cuff feature of your sewing machine and stitch down the pre-fabricated design.
After the designs attached, you may turn the item inside out and cut away the fabric from behind the designs for a peek-a-boo method. The open, lacy parts show up so nicely this way.
In some cases, designs can be sewn in blocks, and stitched together to make larger, bolder projects, such as table covers, bedspreads and jackets. Oh, my.
Hardanger Rainbows was my first attempt at adding color sequences to a traditionally monochromatic fabric art form, thereby giving it more contemporary look.
Don’t miss out on showing off some Hardanger to your family and friends.
| Hardangish |
| Hardanger Alphabet |
| Hardanger Angels - Bella |
| Hardanger Angels - Heather |
| Hardanger Angels - Mary Jane |
| Hardanger Dimensions |
| Hardanger Eggs |
| Hardanger Floral Angels |
| Hardanger Floral Hearts |
| Hardanger On-Point |
| Hardanger Ornaments |
| Hardanger Rainbows |
| Hardanger Squared |
| Hardanger Stockings |
| Hardanger Wreaths |
| Lacy Heart Frames |
| Molas! Series |
| Needlepoint Machine Embroidery Series |
| Pincushions/Mug Rugs |
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Embroidery and fabric arts in general, like other artistic expressions, often have a cultural component unique to the people and places from which they originated. Regardless of origin, I’ve been fascinated and amazed with the richly different expressions of fabric, as well as how borrow from other forms. It’s why I’ve tried my hand at translating some of these techniques.
Over the years, I’ve hobbled together a unique collection of machine embroidery that I hope pay homage to a few cultural origins of inspirations. That collection includes a rather extensive series of Hardanger Machine Embroidery – or I use to call it, Hardangish.
Also favorites are Hmong and Mola inspired designs
But more recently a collection of Mehndi art transformed to thread. These are by no means the sum total of artistic creativity and I have more art forms and ideas to explore than I suspect I have time left to finish. But isn’t that a good thing.
| Hardangish |
| Hardanger Alphabet |
| Hardanger Angels - Bella |
| Hardanger Angels - Heather |
| Hardanger Angels - Mary Jane |
| Hardanger Dimensions |
| Hardanger Eggs |
| Hardanger Floral Angels |
| Hardanger Floral Hearts |
| Hardanger On-Point |
| Hardanger Ornaments |
| Hardanger Rainbows |
| Hardanger Squared |
| Hardanger Stockings |
| Hardanger Wreaths |
| Hmong |
| Hmong's the Way |
| Mehndi Body Art |
| Molas Nouveau |
| Mucho Molas Nouveau |
