Tag: embroidery

I love, love, love how this one turned out. Yay for Beach Day!

Aside from liking the beach, I bought this sampler because I was curious about how to make the hat. How does one get embroidery to stick up like that?

In this case, I was instructed to do couching stitch to build up half of a sphere and then cover it with detached buttonhole. Brilliant! The base of the flip flop is just chain stitch, but with that thread color, it looks like a rattan sandal.

This stitched up fast, too! Probably the hardest part was tying that bow.

Since the weaving part is sitting above the fabric, you can weave in the ends underneath the weaving part on the front! Brilliant! Much better than tying off a million knots.

I’m now working on a holder for my handy little darning machine.

We got to choose our own quote to go into the quote section. I chose to use Wallace Stevens’s words.

As usual, colors continue to be tough for me. I’m happy with my bird, and I think the nest goes well, but I think I lost my way when it came to the frondy things.

Despite my color mishaps, this was a very fun sampler to complete. I also figured out how basket weave stitch should work when you have two or more colors: the color is woven the same way every time. It doesn’t alternate! You can see what happened when I didn’t know that.

This was a fun one. My satin stitch continues to improve. And it was the easiest thing in the lineup, so I think that’s a win.

Here’s a closeup of my work

And one from the other side. As per usual with Kirkiki Press, I did some ripping out. The middle heart is single strand, but that wasn’t the way I stitched it the first time.

You can also see that I didn’t quite have the spacing correct for the Herringbone Ladder on this side and things got crowded.

Herringbone Ladder was the most challenging thing. I found it hard to wrap my mind around where the loops should start. I eventually got it, though.

The bonus pattern was this cute anatomical heart. It was very quick to stitch up and I didn’t have much trouble with it.

Here’s the full layout, including the coupon code. I greatly admire this company’s business acumen, as well as the artistic merit.

Another of my Etsy patterns, I used embroidery thread again.

This is to mark another pillowcase that covers the cats’ headed pad.

Because I have white sheets on my bed, I like to put a little something in one corner, so I can easily tell which corner goes where. I used my new loom (and followed a pattern I bought off Etsy) to mark one corner.

I’m quite liking the result:

This was the first time I used embroidery thread instead of sashiko thread. It’s very shiny. Here’s what it looks like after the ends are pulled through.

Since this wasn’t a darn and I wasn’t going to walk on the final result, I experimented with tying the knots off instead of weaving them in. This was slightly tedious, but no more so than threading my needle multiple times.

I wanted to mark the pillowcases I use to cover the cats heated loungers, so I tried this pattern on my darning device. I like how it turned out.

Here’s how it looks with the ends pulled back (and before I washed it to get rid of my square and the authentic cat hair.)

It is a very fun machine!

You can see my also-rans. I still like “Cleave ever to the sunny side of doubt”

I went with Century Gothic for the font (font choice was hard!) and held up the bird part to see how the quote fit.

Sadly, I left out the L in “world” and didn’t notice until I was tracing.

Happily, I didn’t like the placement anyway, so I made plans to spray away the quote after I finished embroidering. I can fix both the missing letter and the positioning.