#learning embroidery

[miffyxl]

EMBRACE BEING CRAP AT THINGS!

I bought some cheesey embroidery kit whenever ago, I looked at it and went or I could just make a rainbow on my sweatpants.

I know it looks hideous, but I'm having fun with it and because I'm not expecting anything good I'm managing to let myself finish it.

As for the cat, he wouldn't get out the way so I'm using him for internet clout.

[amystitchesthings]

do you have any advice for someone to move from cross stitching with patterns to free hand embroidery? i want to give it a go, but i don’t think I’m very artistic to just not follow a pattern

Hi there! Hopefully I can share some helpful insights - I started cross stitch and then branched out into embroidery myself so I can relate to the dauntingness of freehand work!

A large part of my journey was realising that I didn’t have to be super artistic, and that if I didn’t like what I stitched, I could just pick the stitches out! It helped me to stop being such a perfectionist (sort of! 😅)

So generally there’s two ways i approach freehand work - I’ll describe it and try and add some pictures to help & hopefully it will be useful ☺️

So if I have a clear idea - e.g. I want to stitch a flower bouquet 💐 I look at actual bouquets and the layers involved and try to stitch out a vague shape

So you can see there’s some stems and a vague idea of width? And then I’ll use different stitches to add some details

And I layer stitches until I feel it’s full enough (or I just get bored of it 😅)

Another thing I’ve found really helpful is to have a hoop that isn’t a ‘piece’ as such, but just a place to practice different stitches and see what you like stitching or if it looks good

But there are also times where I have a both vague and specific idea - so at the moment I’m working on another under the sea 🌊 inspired hoop - and I don’t have a ‘pattern’ strictly; but I do have some squiggles for the vague ideas I’m going for like this

So in my head I know roughly what type of stitches I want and the overall composition and then I start gradually building the piece up like so

Another way to get used to free handing is to pick one stitch and fill a hoop with it - e.g French knots

I found this useful for just being a bit more free with stitch placements and seeing how the hoop filled up!

Ultimately, freehand work can be as creative as you want - you could use a pattern as a guide but not use the specific stitches or colours, or do little sketches on paper for what you want the end piece to look like, or you can just grab a hoop and fill it however you want!

Don’t let feelings of not being creative enough stop you and remember things can always be picked out - no stitch is permanent until you say it is!!

I hope this is helpful - I think a lot of the creative process is very individualised so my insights might not work for everyone, and there’s no inherent ‘right’ way to stitch - with or without a pattern , or with or without different stitches, it’s art and everyone finds something different to enjoy!! Happy stitching 🧵

[hanar-wearing-a-sweater]

The process of my first embroidery, from drawing a random design to spending many many hours creating something very strange.

[amystitchesthings]

How did you make all the flowers??

Hi there!

So there’s a range of ways I made the flowers 🌸 to make it easier to explain Ive circled some of the specific flowers!

🌺 woven wheel flowers (circled in the dark pinky colour) for these you stitch five straight stitches from the centre, like a star and then I used two shades of thread and weaved around the spokes, going over and under!

🌸 the felt flowers are my fave to do, (circled in blue) and super simple- cut a bit of felt or other fabric into a circle, and then cut it like a swirl! then roll the felt up from the smallest edge, and stitch the middle down! I think these are called felt roses if you want to look up some examples - it’s difficult to explain over text sorry 😣

🌺 the orange and purple circled followers (the big fluffy pink one and the white ribbon rose) are flower embellishments that I got from a craft store and stitched onto the hoop (as are the tiny white flowers on the hoop edges that look a bit like cotton buds!)

🌸 the green circle of the pink and purple flower I just filled in the petals with thread using straight stitches!

🌺 the light pink circle around the 3D pink and purple flower I used woven picot stitch - this one is tricky to explain over text so I’d recommend googling, but basically you use a pin to hold a straight stitch in a point /\ and then come up through the middle so it’s like this /|\, wrap the thread around the pin and then over and under each leg of the stitch (I hope that makes a bit of sense? definitely look it up, it’s not as difficult as that explanation probably made it sound..)

⭐️ I also used French knots, beads and turkey / tukey stitches!

I hope this is useful! Feel free to send more asks or pop into my DMs if you want to know more ☺️ thank you for your question and I hope my answers made sense - if not, do google the stitch names , there’s some great tutorials out there! Also sorry for the mini essay oops 😅

(I’m guessing this is about my big floral hoop, if not I’m sorry! Please feel free to send another ask with what you’re referencing!!)

[amystitchesthings]

the various stitches to make my robin 🐦

[amystitchesthings]

learning embroidery tips 🧵

[sassblogsstuff]

This took me a few days, I may need to order more boxes. Because I am running out of space, I still need a lot of threads put away.

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