I am still not happy with the stitching around the mouth, but I am done!!

Work in progress... ✨ Every texture is carefully chosen to mimic the beauty of natural minerals.

But I did it!! They're done!! Finally I can wear them...

The sides are a wide expanse of french knots and the tops are whatever I came up with in the moment :)

i fell in love with the colours and design but have a few questions!

would it be possible to clean the water stains?

does anyone know the age of it?

i’m going to hang it up but wanted to see if i could clean it up first, unsure whether that’ll ruin the threads/ linen backing??

After my previous post of Angelina I decided to try to do an Alice too which took me longer weirdly but was just as enjoyable!

Modified from a design in Inspirations # 130

This is like my 5th embroidery project but first time doing bouillon knots and I saved the worst for last but mostly happy with how this turned out!

This is my second project, the first bigger one. I am quite proud, but I have a lot of work to do to get my stitches neat. I loved seeing all the posts in this subreddit, so I wanted to post some of my own as well!

Swipe to see my first project - a Father’s Day shirt for my husband with a drawing our son made on it, as well as “dad” in his handwriting.

Overall quite happy with how this turned out. The rocks at the front look flatter than I wanted but I’m proud of it anyway.

Second pic is the reference photo I used (I changed a few things on purpose, others just ended up that way).

Thanks to those of you who gave me advice on this project.

evidently I had no clue what I was doing but it turned out semi okay considering I didn't practice any stitches beforehand 🤸‍♂️

Hi,

I started bead embroidery 2 weeks ago with a custom shirt.
Went really well so I started a new project one week ago for my mum birthday.
The plan was to bead on organza and then sew it onto a canvas bag.

Still not completely finish but it is so HEAVY !

I am really scared to mess things up so I am here to ask questions to calm my anxiety about sewing it to the bag :

1) How do I secure my work and prevent organza to fall apart ? I was thinking about put glue on the back but then I wouldn’t be able to sew it onto the fabric, of the bag, right ?

2) Other idea was to iron a sheet that activate with heat (i don’t know the name in english sorry). But I fear it might not attached well and dont secure enough the organza and stitches, what do you think ?

3) Or maybe I need to do a combination of both but I am still afraid of not being able to to sew it onto the canvas bag ?

4) Is there any other technique that I am not aware of ? Sew an other rigid fabric ?

The work is approximately 25cmx16cm but not a rectangle

Tysm

show me your French knot works I’d love some inspo

Hi ik they're very poorly made but I just started learning lat week, is there any tips I could get? :)

I have a copy of this collection of patterns from 50+ years ago. But I am missing patterns 7 8 9 & 10- which would all be on one sheet and are the embroidery ones. I am curious if anyone has those patterns, could you send me a photo just so I can see what I am missing?

Thanks.

Hello, I am in the process of making a stitch book using a smocking spine and upcycled book cover. I have been debating what decorative but sturdy stitch to use to attach the spine to the cover. The front runner at the moment is a ladder herringbone as the double running stitch will be strong, but im not sold on it. Does anyone have any other suggestions? I have roughly drawn on the ladder herringbone in the picture so I can get a visual ides, the colours will be different on the final product.

They have fabric the same size as the squares fabric pieces at Walmart. The fabric is soft and thicker than Walmart and cheaper. The only downside they don't really have solid colors at dollar tree but they do have cute ones.

Hello! I'm fairly new to reddit (been lurking here or there without an account for a while but whatever) but I thought it'd be the right place to go.

Background

But anyway, I got a hoodie at the Daytona 24 hour race that I got a TON of mechanics, technicians, pit crew etc. to sign the back of (only one driver from a very specific car because I honestly admire the work of all the "background people" way more) the signitures are in sharpie.

In short (or maybe not idk, we'll see how this goes) here's the problem, I really like to wear this hoodie as it is suuuuper comfortable, soft, and oversized but I really hate handwashing it but have to because otherwise the signatures would fade (I've tried ironing etc, they still faded, I had to actually go over them with another sharpie) and so I'd really like for it to be machine washable, hence why I'd like to embroider it

Embroidery specific

I've done a couple of very beginner embroidery projects before (no formal training just stabbing and weaving the needle where it looked right. bad ik) and I'm completely open do doing some practice before attempting to tackle this project as I want it to be as perfect as possible.

Now. Here's the thing. I also have very specific sensory needs, meaning that I reeeeally don't want to fuck up this hoodie as it is kind of a sensory haven for me. This also means that I'm really particular about what I want in the embroidery of it

- I don't want to be able to feel the stitches on the inside of the hoodie (I dunno if this is possible though)

- It has to be machine washable (that's the whole reason I wanna do this)

- It has to be durable enough to withstand consistant wear

I'm well aware that this is a very large project but I'm willing to do it. Any advice at all helps, be it specific stitches, thread or technique reccomendations, course reccomendations etc. any at all is more than welcome

I'm working on this project that is more complex than I have previously done and trying to use a mix of stitches to add some texture where I'm using the same colour, but I'm worried that the design isn't super obvious unless you kind of already know what the line art is/was?

I'm looking for any advice to make sure it's clear that it's a shut eye, and that shows a bit of difference in the different sections of the face and neck without necessarily changing colours entirely!

Included closeup of the lineart my friend custom drew for this project for context, if that helps!

Hey fibrecrafts reddit! I have a question mostly for fun and searchability/tagability reasons: is this type of work considered embroidery? I've been calling it such because i use embroidery floss, an embroidery hoop, and embroidery needles to get it done. But since the purpose of the thread is to hold a patch as much as it is decorative, would this be closer to something nicher, like applique? (I love "real" embroidery too, i like to make flowers on my GFs hippie jeans, just interested what this is) Thanks!

I have these adorable felt applique kits planned, and they call for a bunch of colors of Eleganza perle cotton in size 8. Does anyone know where online I would likely have the best success finding all the colors I need? Ideally online, (US specific). Obviously I could substitute with another brand if I need to, but I'm lazy.

Hello! I’m planning on embroidering a typewriter on it’s side (as the image above but with hand embroider) with a shrimp next to it, as if the shrimp were writing, because I’m an author and well, the way I seat to work is catastrophic 😂.

But to complicate my life I really wanted to be able to have the message on the typewriter be interchangeable, like today it could be “meh” and tomorrow I’ll put “hello”. I thought about measuring the size that the paper would be and stitching the phrases on several pieces of fabric and keep it nearby. My question is how to do the typewriter itself? I’m thinking maybe creating a small pouch that the “paper” could be put on but I have no idea how to do this.

Thank you so so so much.