Sketches, Doodles, & Cetera — Embroidery
Embroidery Tutorial: Blending Colors with Seed Stitch
Art & Illustration Embroidery Hand Lettering Tutorials
I always love a project that challenges me to push my craft forward, and I've been running into quite a few of those lately. One of the new techniques that I've been having the most fun with is for a project where I was asked to recreate the garish festive look of an ugly Christmas sweater as embroidered text. I'd like to share with you the shading method that I used in this project to blend together the clashing cheery colors in the embroidery.
Embroidery Pattern: Ugly Xmas Sweater Cat
Art & Illustration Embroidery Printables & Downloads
If you're in the mood to learn a bunch of new embroidery stitches and to celebrate your love of ugly Christmas sweaters, you're in luck! Stitch along with this embroidery sampler to try your hand at nine different embroidery techniques.
Embroidery Tutorial: Duplicate Stitch
Today I'm sharing a tutorial for a special stitch to add embroidered elements to knit fabric. You can, of course, use traditional embroidery techniques with knitwear, but traditional stitches do not have the same stretchiness that knitted fabric has.
Enter the duplicate stitch. This is a stitch that essentially duplicates the knitted stitches, giving you the look of knitted color work. The stitch is easy to learn but can give you lots of creative options.
Embroidery Tutorial: Transfer Methods
I have been trying to expand the types of base fabrics I use in my embroidery. However, my usual transfer method (blue water soluble pen) doesn’t work well with all fabrics, so I spent some time testing various transfer methods that work in different situations.
Embroidery Pattern: Venn Diagram Love
Art & Illustration Embroidery Hand Lettering Printables & Downloads
Do you ever have a need to express both your nerdiness and your love for someone at the same time? Well, you're in luck, because this Venn diagram embroidery pattern does just that.