Finish Work: How to Frame a Piece of Embroidery
2007年12月22日 · Position the embroidery over the mounting board, centering it carefully, then turn the embroidery over, placing it face down on your work surface. I use a pencil and lightly draw the position of the mounting board on the back of the embroidered piece. That way, if anything gets knocked or the work slides about, it’s no big deal.
Quaker Stitch Tutorial: Perfect for Embroidered Writing
2020年7月29日 · Years ago, I wrote a series of articles on hand embroidered writing. The articles take you step-by-step through different embroidery stitches that work well for embroidered writing. Today, we're going to add a stitch to that list - particularly, a stitch known today as …
Hand Embroidery Needles: How to Choose Them & Use Them
2014年11月21日 · Today, I want to share a few points about hand embroidery needles, so that you can make a good choice when you select the needle you’ll use on your next embroidered masterpiece. While we all have our favorite specialty tools, our most basic and most important stitching tool – the one we can’t do without – is the needle.
10 Hand Embroidery Stitches for Stems & Branches
2018年8月10日 · Stems and branches – you’re bound to run into them at some point in hand embroidery! Whether it’s tree branches, wispy herbal shoots, curly vines and tendrils, heavy stalks, or stylized stems on stylized flowers, it’s highly probably that at some point in your embroidery journey, you’ll have to make a decision on the stitches to use to interpret these …
Lovely Hand Embroidered Monograms! – NeedlenThread.com
2014年6月16日 · And using the same alphabet, Amanda McCurdy embroidered this beautiful L in satin stitch as a gift for her grandmother Leatrice’s 90th birthday. It is perfectly satin stitched – so pretty! And another hand embroidered L. Heather embroidered this beautiful floral L monogram after seeing these floral monogram kits from French Needle mentioned ...
Embroidered Greeting Cards: Free Patterns - NeedlenThread.com
2007年7月21日 · I love their holly wreath pattern for embroidered Christmas cards, and I think their different bead patterns for greeting cards are very pretty for any occasion. If you are thinking about sending hand-made greeting cards for Christmas, 2008, now’s the time to start planning.
Making an Embroidered Box – NeedlenThread.com
2010年1月18日 · This one is just a simple box – four sides and a lid. A good starting place for embroidered box construction, methinks. This lesson for making an embroidered box can be found on the V&A; website. The lesson is meant to supplement a textile course with museum research, so it’s kind of a neat idea, if you happen to live in the vicinity of a ...
Embroidered Eggs: Stitching Lines & Swirls - NeedlenThread.com
2013年3月9日 · The hole with the red arrow pointing to it is the beginning of the embroidered line (but not where I begin the embroidery). Notice that it’s a little bigger than the other holes. On swirly designs, at the intersections of the swirly lines and at the beginnings and ends of the swirly lines, I enlarge the holes slightly while I’m drilling.
All About Backing Embroidery Ground Fabric - NeedlenThread.com
2016年7月26日 · A few years back I hand embroidered a saree. The fabric was plain yellow cotton Kota Doria, with a very open weave. The chose a trellis pattern, all embroidered on the pallu. Chains were fine, but the filled-in parts needed a closer weave. Since it was the pallu, any lining would show when draped.
Little Pieces of Embroidery – Covered Buttons and More!
2018年4月18日 · I’ve used embroidered covered buttons to decorate retractable lanyards – like the one in the photo above. These make terrific scissor pulls. You can loop the end of the lanyard through one of the finger holes on your scissors, and clip the lanyard to your shirt, or on the edge of excess fabric on your embroidery frame, or to a chart holder ...