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every stitch, depicted and demonstrated

This database holds a ton of useful materials for embroidery! many different types of stitches in various difficulties, all incredibly useful!

johnthestitcher

You can always learn an new embroidery stitch to add to your repertoire.

#embroidery #resources

long hiatus to finish some different craft projects but back to making progress

#i leave random corners incomplete to discourage my brain's tendency to not want to mess with perfection (completed square)#i'll come back and close up the borders later and i'll probably leave that last corner of the first motif incomplete until the very end #embroidery #blackwork #my crafts

discovery! blackwork embroidery uses both backstitch and holbein stitch for a reason. backstitch for when you need to just keep going forward, holbein for when you need to back yourself into a dead end and then drive back out

#it took doing a hand sewing project where i figured out how to correctly backstitch for me to figure it out #this sampler i'm doing involves way too many intersections for it to be easy to stick to one or the other without significant planning #it could be a fun challenge to do it that way. but at this point i am going to go with whatever gets the job done

theinternetarchive

embroidery samples of silk and metallic thread on felt, french c. early 1800s.

#embroidery

shamebats

Tiktok post by @ wynunlimited.

#sewing

kittydoggie

I'm sitting here almost crying because I've been looking for some starter patterns and tutorials to learn how to create my own plush stuff, and found this website https://cholyknight.com/

This person has the best tutorials I've ever seen. No stupid videos, just text, illustrations, photos and little infographics explaining things as they go along. They've been plugging away forever, putting out both free and paid content since the mid-2000s and I would never have found them if not for some stupid aggregate website listing dinosaur patterns. Like, SEO is screwing them raw.

They have written literal books about how to sew, and are giving them away free, with no nag screens, no "sign up and you can get this pattern" data leeching, nothing. Just giving it away. I paid like $25 a couple years ago for a beginning sewing book so I could just have something in a format that I could understand, and honestly, her free resources are just as good if not better than the book I bought.

Not only that, check out the faq for info on how she lets folks use her patterns. It's actually amazing, how free she is with them. The only thing you have to do is not sell them as your own patterns, you can sell the plush you make from them. It is the barest, simplest thing anyone could ever ask for in return, and I swear I have a knife for whoever doesn't follow those simple directions.

I'm so used to people being cagey and rude online that when I see someone who literally is mostly just giving back to others I'm like...???? What's the catch? Do these pdfs have viruses? Like, I know making fandom plush patterns is deffo what's getting her attention and keeping her lights on when people buy other things, but like fuck.

#addendum: i recently hand sewed my first plushie ever using the tips from a cholyknight infographic #the instructions were really clear about all the things i was unsure about and it turned out sooooo cute

pmamtraveller

Textile art featuring a school of koi fish, by artist Lin Xia.

kittydoggie

I'm sitting here almost crying because I've been looking for some starter patterns and tutorials to learn how to create my own plush stuff, and found this website https://cholyknight.com/

This person has the best tutorials I've ever seen. No stupid videos, just text, illustrations, photos and little infographics explaining things as they go along. They've been plugging away forever, putting out both free and paid content since the mid-2000s and I would never have found them if not for some stupid aggregate website listing dinosaur patterns. Like, SEO is screwing them raw.

They have written literal books about how to sew, and are giving them away free, with no nag screens, no "sign up and you can get this pattern" data leeching, nothing. Just giving it away. I paid like $25 a couple years ago for a beginning sewing book so I could just have something in a format that I could understand, and honestly, her free resources are just as good if not better than the book I bought.

Not only that, check out the faq for info on how she lets folks use her patterns. It's actually amazing, how free she is with them. The only thing you have to do is not sell them as your own patterns, you can sell the plush you make from them. It is the barest, simplest thing anyone could ever ask for in return, and I swear I have a knife for whoever doesn't follow those simple directions.

I'm so used to people being cagey and rude online that when I see someone who literally is mostly just giving back to others I'm like...???? What's the catch? Do these pdfs have viruses? Like, I know making fandom plush patterns is deffo what's getting her attention and keeping her lights on when people buy other things, but like fuck.

#resources #sewing

edgebug

The lesbian blanket is DONE

edgebug

when Joann was dying a horrible death my friend @theshatteredarchivist and i would go out every friday and visit all the stores in the area to scope out their clearance stuff

i got like a zillion skeins of this stuff

"But kip how did you do color work with variegated yarn?" I spent hours unvariegating it and tying tiny knots. Do not be like me

anyway i used the Lotus 2 pattern from Veronika Liachovic, vcrochetpatterns on etsy! and it turned out so good and im so happy with it

#crochet #that is insane but i am impressed

amingledyarn

“The Only Witness to a Vanished World”, crochet sculpture by Caitlin McCormack.

"From humble, crocheted thread emerges Caitlin McCormack’s alternate reality featuring tiny carcasses, encased objects, and mysterious figures."

copperbadge

Absolutely lost in the sauce of the "Specimens" section of her website.

#crochet

essektheylyss

fibercrafts are SO maddening cuz wdym I have to go to work tomorrow, I'm like a third of a way through making a whole ass fucking cape, don't you think I should be allowed to focus on what matters (my fucking cape)

#i semi seriously consider taking pto every time i come within a predictable number of hours of finishing a project

ghw-archive

Waistcoat, 1845-59

#embroidery #historical #wow...

stitch-you-thought

Blackwork motif learned (1/1000000000)

stitch-you-thought

gettin the hang of it. shocked and disgusted to find that yet another fiber art is a trojan horse for math

#could really fall in love with this art form provided i don't fuck up any of the 18 other motifs that aren't this one #blackwork #my crafts #figuring out how to route a motif is like doing those 'can you draw this without picking up your pencil or doubling back?' puzzles #something about the number of lines in a shape and vertices at intersections smacks of math. i will find a formula you wait

loosethreadstitchery

An older and smaller sampler, just 80 x 80 stitches. Two thread colours per section. Blackwork embroidery on 14-count Aida cloth.

Pattern here (my site) or here (Etsy).

#blackwork #embroidery #this is the pattern i am attempting

Blackwork motif learned (1/1000000000)

#my first time trying blackwork #it is both easier (it's just stitching! and a lot less of it than cross stitch)#and harder (routing is a logic puzzle and i know no strategies)#than advertised #i would probably be in a better position to learn strategies if i were willing to use beginner patterns #but unfortunately an embroidery project that is less than daunting just bores me to tears #so we're going to jump in feet first #the border is not hard now that i've got the trick of it but the sampler squares are all unique and a bit harder to route #the pattern designer apparently assumes you don't need to be babied (i.e. offered suggestions on stitch order)#i have no idea what the norm is for blackwork patterns but that is scary. i am scared (enjoying myself)

fergalicious214

Happy new year!

I can't believe I managed to actually finish this in time for the end of the year. 😅 Now to finish the scarf I started for my husband before the blanket class I signed up for starts in mid January.

#embroidery #gorgeous!!

sometiktoksarevalid

#embroidery

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