NOTE: We were having technical difficulties on Friday and over the weekend. I did post this on Friday, but it kept going to my personal admin blog instead of the category blog. I think the bugs have been chased out and it's working properly now.

Mary Corbett's Needle'NThread site is subtitled "Tips, Tricks, and Great Resources for Hand Embroidery." It's all that and more! I encourage you to look all around the site, from Mary's blog to her gallery to her free patterns page. What I want to focus on today is her Video Library of Hand-Embroidery Stitches.

I watched several of these video tutorials, and they're wonderful. Brief, clear, easy to follow, with the camera focused close on just Mary's hands, the needle and thread, and the fabric, with Mary's careful explanation accompanying her demonstration of the stitches. (I didn't try to view these with my home dial-up system, but on broadband they loaded almost instantaneously and played beautifully.)

As an added extra-special bonus, Mary provides a how-to article, with photos, of how she creates and films her tutorials.

She says she's always adding new tutorials, so be sure to check back at Needle'NThread often! It should definitely be bookmarked as a "must" site for all embroidery enthusiasts.

--Nancy