This video is a step by step beginner hand embroidery full tutorial.
It comes for free with each embroidery I sell on my Etsy shop.
You can though download the design for free here : https://ko-fi.com/s/2774531d54
Several stitch techniques are used to make these flowers and leaves.
These are the stitches I use in my embroideries. It doesn't cover all kind of stitches, these are my personal choices.
We will begin by the embroidery preparation :
- Material : 00:00:10
- Placing the fabric on the hoop : 00:01:37
- Option 1 : water-soluble pen tracing : 00:03:09
- Option 2 (the one we will use) : stick and stitch paper placing : 00:05:25
- Thread size : 00:05:54
- Thread strands : 00:06:36
- Glide the thread in the needle eye : 00:07:00
- Tie a thread knot : 00:07:21
Then we begin to stitch and we will see :
- Water-soluble paper fixation : 00:08:00
- Ending thread at the back : 00:09:53
- Rose stitch : 00:10:40
- Fish bone : 00:22:50
- Stem stitch : 00:30:53
- Split stitch : 00:35:23
- Lazy Daisy : 00:39:03
- Long and short stitch (fill) : 00:48:12
- The well known back stitch : 00:51:28
- "Failed daisy" : 00:54:18
- French knot (dot) (2 twists) : 00:56:00
- French knot (dot) (1 twist) : 00:58:52
- The running stitch (to end the embroidery) : 01:02:17
Ending steps :
- Removing transfer paper excedent : 01:01:11
- Wet and remove transfer paper : 01:01:19
- Sculpt and place what moved with water : 01:01:51
- Final result : 01:04:21
You can download the design here : https://ko-fi.com/s/2774531d54
For this tutorial, you need :
- A 6" (15 cm) hoop,
- A sharp needle,
- Embroidery threads (DMC, Anchor, ...)
- A 20cm x 20cm cotton fabric piece (I used a beige one)
- Scissors
- A transferring option :
* Water soluble transfer paper (stick and stitch paper) and a printer
OR
* Trickmarker/chalk pen/water-soluble pen, A4 white paper and printer / a tablet or a screen to put the design on and trace
OR
* Carbon paper (not shown in this tutorial)
OR
* Another way to transfer that you know
Optional tools :
- Support for the hoop,
- Plier,
- Non-sharp needle,
- Thread cutter,
- Zigzag scissors,
- ...
The color used are :
- Beige (DMC 822) (optional - to hold the transfer paper)
- Green (DMC 92)
- Light pink (DMC 818)
- Dark pink (DMC 957 - not 3806 as mentioned in the video)
This design comes with every embroidery pattern purchased on my Etsy shop : https://embroiderybysylvana.etsy.com
Hope you will have fun. Trust in you, it doesn't have to be perfect 💜🌸
Happy stitching!
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© Designs by SylvanaCreates
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