#embroidery problems

[daffodil--daze]

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[soggywarmpockets]

The biggest difference between cross stitch and embroidery is actually the increase in panic you feel when you drop a sharp, thin embroidery needle vesus a blunt-ass tapestry needle.

Multiply that terror by at least 3 if you're prone to walking around barefoot.

[rareclandestinity]

I’ve been very sad recently (for lots of reasons, but for the purposes of this post it’s just the following reason) because whenever I try to work on my embroidery project, I have to put it down because my hands are soooo sweaty in this heat that I keep sweating my pattern off the cloth.... absolutely ridiculous. Anyone have suggestions?

[thetextilealchemist]

Friends, if I can finish this jacket and remain sane, it will be proof positive that either my personal psyche is unshakeable or that ridiculous crafting projects are good for mental health. I’ve borrowed a light table from a friend (who, very intelligently, recognised that I wouldn’t be able to copy the whole pattern in one sitting, and should probably take it home), and now I’m tracing the blackwork pattern of barberries onto my linen for embroidering later.

Meanwhile, it’s a bit of a slow work week, so I’ve brought my electric eel to work so I can spin on the mezzanine in between clients. I’m using the black meat fleece I was given at a shearing a few years ago (cleaned but otherwise just keeping my roses warm on the balcony) to spin floss for this jacket. I’m hopeful that two bobbins plied will be enough, but the good news is that I can always spin more.

[soggywarmpockets]

Me trying to figure out which of my project bags has the skein of 310 I’m working from

[the-embroidery-bard]

1. I have too many WIPs.

2. I also have too many needle minders, but since needle minders are fun and great, that’s okay. HOWEVER

2a. Needle minders are sometimes heavy, so I don’t like leaving them on projects so they don’t stretch out the fabric.

3. I do not have enough needles. I have my Favorite Cross Stitch Needle and my Favorite Freehand Needle. I have more needles somewhere, probably, and you’re supposed to replace your needles periodically, but these are my Favorites.

The problem with these three-and-a-half facts coexisting is that I’ve adopted the unhinged habit of leaving one of the two needles out on a needle minder, just…around. On a shelf somewhere. Instead of putting my only needle back in the needle case, or even just weaving the needle into the fabric corner.

Nope! The magnet that is designed to attach to your project and keep your needle safe is in fact not attached to a project, keeping my needle safe in an undisclosed location.

[ravenzer]

its all fun and games until the black embroidery floss gets a knot in it

[nothingwithdignity]

I found a shop a couple months ago that had a ton of embroidery patterns perfect for my Mollymauk coat. Since I don’t love drafting my own and they were exactly what I was looking for and they were affordable, I was over the moon. I bought a couple, saved about 30 to a wishlist and went on my merry way. Three weeks later, the entire site is changed, the designs I saved no longer exist, and they don’t even sell handstitching patterns anymore.... I guess either it was too good to be true or the timing was just the absolute worst. It’s fine, I’ll get over it in the long run, but I’m just feeling so deflated right now. I love this project but it’s very hard and I thought I had finally found a way to make it a little easier on myself. I thought I had actually gotten lucky for once. Ultimately, I have to remember it’s just cosplay and I’ll still find a way to do this even if things aren’t going how I’d hoped, but it is extremely disheartening tonight.