#hand stitching

[howtomakeyousee]

You will patch up all the holes in 2025.

(this isn’t a post about knitting)

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: Super practical and beautiful stitching techniques (Mending holes and altering lengths)

[oriley42]

For National Embroidery Month, sharing some close-ups of my in-progress Animorphs embroidery! Thread painting based on animal pictures, broken up by sparkly blue structures to signify morphing.

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Embroidered orange and black tiger close up on roaring face with sparkly blue outlines

Embroidered brown bear head roaring with sparkly blue outlines

Embroidered grey wolf head with sparkly blue outlines

Embroidered red tailed hawk with wings spread and sparkly blue outlines

[sennedjem]

COLLAR IS DONE AAHHHH, so I had to do a side by side with the game model!

Almost 50 hours of actual embroidery, plus roughly another 10 for the border stitching details, all done by hand. Whew! But look at it, I’m so damn proud!

I hadn’t initially planned on lining this, but now I think I will for a more finished feel. So that’s next, then sewing up the sleeves/sides, and then it’s back to embroidery hell for the hem xD And in the meantime, I need to get back to the stitching details on the trousers, because I can only do a little of that at a time before my hands start screaming at me.

[chivalry-on-canvas]

Stitching the Standard by Edmund Blair Leighton

[songbird-duchess]

Beliefs around crafting

Sometimes when I sit and I knit I hear my older cousin’s voice in my ear warning me not to pull too tight. The yarn can feel I’m nervous and whatever I’m making will fall apart if I knit while nervous. You have to knit with calm confidence or you doom your project.

Sometimes when I’m sewing I feel my aunt’s hands guiding mine and telling me to remember to thank my thread because this thread has gone through so much to become the thread that holds my project together. And you need to thank the things that hold you together.

Sometimes when I’m embroidering I remember my mamaw’s warning about how you always embroider the eyes last if you’re embroidering an animal or person. The eyes bring the piece to life and once you stitch them they can feel. And being stabbed with a needle over and over is very unpleasant.

Sometimes when I’m braiding my hair or a cord or a length of dandelion for a crown I remember the old whispers I grew up with: don’t think bad thoughts while you braid, you’ll braid a curse into your hair and you’ll have to wash it thrice to get it out.

We had beliefs about baking, cooking, cleaning, sewing, weaving, singing, dancing, playing, joking. Every craft and skill the people in my family taught me came with a lesson or a warning.

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Idk why I’m posting this. Been missing my family a lot lately, most of these women have passed. I guess I just needed to speak their wisdom into something. Has anyone else heard these?

[somnambulant-seraphim]

I've been wanting to try embroidering something with a wing pattern, so here's a pine processionary moth and caterpillar (Haumetopoea pityocampa).☾⋆˚₊·𓆦∘.⍋༄࿔˚₊·.

They get their name from the behaviour of the caterpillars, which travel in a long, unbroken, single-file line. It provides protection from predators, along with their irritating, toxic hairs. They are a destructive pest to forests, but a visually beautiful insect none the less.

I fumbled the symmetry of the wings a little, but I'm overall happy with how this piece turned out!·₊˚𓆦˚₊·⍋˚₊·࿐࿔⋆·.