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Embroidery 101

Introduction:

Embroidery is a craft that uses thread to decorate fabric (and other materials). It's a great way to spruce up a garment, customise objects, and to hide mends you've made!

Embroidery is usually done with embroidery floss, but depending on the base material you're working on, you could also use yarn, ribbons, or plain old sewing thread. Don't be afraid to experiment!

Embroidery is easier to do on taut fabric than limp fabric. That's why most people use embroidery hoops. While not strictly necessary, a hoop will make your life so much easier.

Using the right needle will help, too. Use a crewel needle if you're working with embroidery floss, a chenille needle if you're working with ribbon or yarn, or a tapestry needle if you're doing cross-stitch embroidery on open-weave fabrics.

While there are many types of embroidery from all over the world, this post will focus on some basic stitches you can use in your own work.

Basic embroidery stitches:

For a more thorough overview of embroidery stitches, check out these embroidery tutorials by Mary Corbet's Needle 'n Thread.

The following images show some of the most basic stitches:

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The 16 stitches in the images above can be combined into any shape or form you want. You might recognise some from my hand sewing post: embroidery is a type of hand sewing, after all.

You don't need to know all of these to be able to make beautiful things. Even just one of these is a great start for a project.

This sampler by Sew Nancy shows how these basic stitches can be used to outline shapes or form flowers, for example.

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Fiorelila used a combination of the stem stitch, satin stitch, lazy daisy, and french knots to spruce up this sweater:

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And this person used lazy daisies to add some flair to their jeans:

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Embroidery for visible mending:

Embroidery is a useful tool to hide mends you've made, or to even accentuate them if that's your style. This is called visible mending. While this is a topic that deserves a post on its own, here are some quick examples:

Like this fix by Redditor Takemythyme who embroidered a rose over a hole in a knit fabric:

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Or like how this person has spruced up their jeans repairs with embroidery:

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In this example, The Woolery Guy chose to use flower embroidery to make a hole in a knit fabric look like it was there by design:

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For more examples, check out Pinterest or VisibleMending.com.

Conclusion:

Embroidery is a useful skill to give new life to your wardrobe. You can use it to give some flair to items you've grown bored off, or even to mend your clothes.

Once you've got a few basic stitches under your belt, the possibilities are endless. Be creative and have fun with it!

Good luck and feel free to show me your work!

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Where to Read The Twelve Kingdoms

For those of us who don’t read Japanese, finding and reading all the Twelve Kingdoms novels is something of a challenge, but, fortunately, not impossible. Here’s a list of the books published to date (in order of publication), and where you can read them.

魔性の子 | Demon Child (1991)

Official translation (French) by Éditions Milan: L'être d'autre monde

Fantranslation by Aili: Demon Child

月の影 影の海 | Shadow of the Moon (1992)

Official translation (English) by Tokyopop: Shadow of the Moon

Official translation (German) by Tokyopop: Der Schatten des Mondes / Das Meer der Schatten

Official translation (French) by Éditions Milan: La mer de l'ombre

Fantranslation by Eugene Woodbury: Shadow of the Moon, a Sea of Shadows

風の海 迷宮の岸 | Sea of Wind (1993)

Official translation (English) by Tokyopop: Sea of Wind

Official translation (German) by Tokyopop: Das Meer des Windes / Am Rande des Labyrinths

Official translation (French) by Éditions Milan: Le rivage du labyrinthe

Fantranslation by Aili: Sea of the Wind, Shore of the Maze

東の海神 西の滄海 | The Vast Spread of the Seas (1994)

Official translation (English) by Tokyopop: The Vast Spread of the Seas

Official translation (German) by Tokyopop: Der Östliche Meeresgott / Das Blaue Meer im Westen

Official translation (French) by Éditions Milan: Le maître des mers

Fantranslation by Eugene Woodbury: Poseidon of the East, Vast Blue Seas of the West

風の万里 黎明の空 | Skies of Dawn (1994)

Official translation (English) by Tokyopop: Skies of Dawn

Official translation (German) by Tokyopop: Tausend Meilen des Windes / Himmel im Morgengrauen

Official translation (French) by Éditions Milan: Le vent de l'infini

Fantranslation by Eugene Woodbury: A Thousand Leagues of Wind, the Sky at Dawn

図南の翼 | The Wings of Dreams (1996)

Official translation (French) by Éditions Milan: Les ailes du destin

Fantranslation by Eugene Woodbury: The Wings of Dreams

黄昏の岸 暁の天 | The Shore in Twilight, The Sky at Daybreak (2001)

Official translation (French) by Éditions Milan: Les rives du crépuscule

Fantranslation by Eugene Woodbury: The Shore in Twilight, the Sky at Daybreak

華胥の幽夢 | Dreaming of Paradise (2001)

Official translation (French) by Éditions Milan: Le royaume de l'idéal

Fantranslation by Eugene Woodbury: Dreaming of Paradise

白銀の墟 玄の月 | Silver Ruins, Black Moon (2019)

Fantranslation by Eugene Woodbury: Hills of Silver Ruins, a Pitch Black Moon (WIP)

UPDATE 26 October 2021:

Tokyopop’s English editions are out of print, but may be available for purchase online. The above links go to Amazon, but they can also be found online on second-hand retailers like Abe Books and on places like Ebay.

The Éditions Milan French translations have gone out of print. However, it is still possible to purchase each volume, often second-hand, through retailers like FNAC and Amazon.

Official translations in Chinese also exist, though if you read Chinese you probably already knew that! Nonetheless, they are by the Taiwanese publisher Sharp Point Press, and you can find them all here.

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🌕 Full Moons in 2017 🌕

* January 12: Full Moon in Cancer * February 10: Full Moon in Leo * March 12: Full Moon in Virgo * April 11: Full Moon in Libra * May 10: Full Moon in Scorpio * June 9: Full Moon in Sagittarius * July 9: Full Moon in Capricorn * August 7: Full Moon in Aquarius * September 6: Full Moon in Pisces * October 5: Full Moon in Aries * November 4: Full Moon in Taurus * December 3: Full Moon in Gemini

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The full moon in Scorpio brings time for reflections. Have you raised your consciousness? Many are feeling as if they have taken a few steps back in the process. Or as of last month, they’ve thought that challenges were a little more difficult than usual. Great illusions surrounding everyone. As that process will begin to come to an end over the next few weeks, you can start to use this energy to work through resentment, grudges that you have held towards others and yourself, and even towards the world and life. This lunar energy, with its constellation, and the planet associated with it, can really start to help you feel more hopeful and inspired mystically. Use the energy to the fullest and get those vibrations up.