…compilation of tutorials
Doesn’t the Elephants spiral look cute?
However considering my physique I’d better embroider other animals, or flowers or even Paisleys ;-)
Links:
Embroidered Rainbow Elephants Spiral (*new black shirt* Rainbow elephants spiralling into space)
Google image search result for ‘flower embroidery pattern’
Google image search result for ‘paisley embroidery pattern’
Recently I surfed the internet and found the Kantha embroidery.
It remembered me of the Sashiko embroidery but there you only embroider the outlines.
I find it beautiful: shapes are filled with simple stitches and yet it looks elegant.
Links:
Kantha Embroidery (Kantha Work)
Kantha Embroidery (quilting – a stitch directory of kantha)
Google search result for ‘Kantha’
Here at unikatissima: Sashiko Embroidery
I’d never have had the idea myself: beading shoes!
Up until now I mostly ‘jumped’ at buttons and pins and the bead embroidered Paisleys are still on my list, but shoes…
If you don’t like the pattern, check out again the cross stitch patterns treasures ;-)
I’m thrilled, it’s possible that I really will make them once ;-)
You can possibly even embroider your self-made shoes.
On the other hand it may be easier to spraypaint the shoes.
And if you are a sneaker type you may prefer to customize your sneakers ;-)
Besides fall has begun, possibly you better add crochet embellishments to your shoes?! ;-)
Links:
Kasut Manek (Beaded Shoes)
Beading (Manek) Tutorial – Part 1 – Preparing the frame and canvas
Beading (Manek) Tutorial – Part 2 – Border Beading
Beading (Manek) Tutorial – Part 3 – Interior Beading
Beading (Manek) Tutorial – Part 4 – How to take measurement on your foot
Here at unikatissima:
Freeform Bead Embroidery
Bead embroidered Paisleys
Bead Picots
Cross Stitch Patterns Treasures
Sneaker Customizing
Self-made Shoes
Spraypainting Accessories
Shoe-torial
(Click photo to enlarge)
Recently I needed a birthday card and that is the reason why I played around with stencilling again ;-)
I wanted to have a negativ stencilled feather and sketched and cut therefore a feather.
Here I’ve made my first tests already.
I covered my feather with light brown chalk and smeared the chalk with my fingers outwards.
This way I got white areas around my stencil which made the quill of my feather much too broad for my liking (see arrow).
Therefore I cut two half-stencils and used them.
It worked great!
Another advantage of this half-stencil method is the fact, that the really narrow quill of my feather can’t slip or even tear anymore.
I glued a cut-out feather shifted on my stencilled feather and because I thought that something is missing, I embroidered some lines with golden thread.
I used a running stitch back and forth as I always do.
That’s how the inside of the card looks – I left it this way and wrote on the right side of the card.
(Click photo to enlarge)
And that’s how the finished card looks: I liked it ;-) and the adressee liked it, too :)
Admittedly the card looks still a little bumpy here because I fixed the chalk with hair spray. After everything was (really!) dry I put it under a heavy book and afterwards it was beautifully flat again.
Links:
Instruction on how to make the Running Stitch (English)
Instruction on how to make the Running Stitch (Vorstich) (German)
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘stencil’
Entries with the tag ’embroidery’
I found a blog where the author fetched the cross stitch patterns of an old aunt from the attic and published them.
I saw beautiful patterns thereby and it’s not as if you had to work cross stitch only with the patterns ;-)
The blog is written in Netherlands and English (the italic text), but the patterns can be recognized anyhow ;-))
Links:
Cross Stitch Patterns Treasures (Tantes zolder) (Netherlands and English)
Here at unikatissima:
What Can You Do With Filet Crochet/Cross Stitch Embroidery Charts?
This little doll conquered my heart immediately! :)
I will have to see if I find the right fabric for it ;-)
Links:
Photo: Silly Little Doll
Pattern: Silly Little Doll Pattern
I just wanted to try ‘real’ embroidery (viz. not on paper ;-)) and had to find out how actually to begin and to end (on paper I simply glue on the threads but I thought that this must be done differently on fabric ;-)).
I found great instructions that helped a lot.
After my first experience with the v-neck of my t-shirt I think that I will embroider more often on fabric ;-)
Links:
Starting and Ending Threads
Here at unikatissima: Entries with the tags ’embroidery’ and ‘paper’
Actually I don’t want to talk only about Sashiko embroidery but about Sashiko embroidery on paper – I just prefer to embroider on paper ;-))
I discovered Sashiko embroidery one day when surfing the internet and found the results just beautiful!
The basic principle (as far as I understood) is that Sashiko embroidery is mostly a shape filling embroidery and the lines are worked as ‘dashed lines’ where the spaces between the dashes are about half as long as the dashes themselves (simply check the tutorials (for ‘real’ Sashiko embroidery) in the links, they explained it better).
Then I saw one day that our toilet paper (top left on the picture) doesn’t only have a nice pattern but that I can use the pressure points for a Sashiko embroidery by using alternately the left and the right side of the points as needle entry points.
Therefore I trace-pricked the pattern on paper (bottom right on the picture) and embroidered it in two colours.
I find that you can’t see any more on the result that it is made by ‘cheating’ from toilet paper ;-))
Here a look at the backside.
I will glue it on a card and send as a greeting card.
To people who use different toilet paper ;-))
Recently I needed a card for a man which had to show the colours wine red and gold.
What is more I wanted it simple yet elegant and I think that it worked out ;-))
(Click the picture to get an enlarged view.)
The pattern shows inside, too.
Because I didn’t like the writing to be directly on the wine red I put a crème coloured paper in.
You can click the thumbnail of the template to download the enlarged template. The template is about 10 cm (appr. 4 inches), if you like to have a different size you will have to adapt the print size.
Simply lay the template on your card and prick all holes where you want to thread the yarn through (there are several possibilities, just try it).
Then weave in the thread.
Note: If you use an overlong thread you only get a thread tangle.
That’s why I worked in rings that I finished one by one.
You can find the technique that I used to thread the yarn through the hole in the entry Starburst Card.
I finished the ends of the threads on the backside as invisible as possible by laying them side by side and glueing them on.
In case that the backside of your card doesn’t look nice you can glue on a different coloured paper on both sides, that looks very good and conceals all imperfections.
Links:
Here at unikatissima:
Starburst Card: I show there how I weave the thread through the holes, here I did it the same way
Entries with the tags ‘paper’ and ’embroidery’
After I presented Jewelry for the Garden some time ago and yesterday the Tomato Tube Leaves I want to present today three more garden decorations from joghurt cup lids and acrylic yarn.
Instruction for the 1. decoration, the 2. decoration, the 3. decoration
As you can see the ornament can be used for a greeting card as well ;-)
I used a transparent joghurt cup lid (from a 500g joghurt cup) and variegated acrylic yarn.
Additionally you will need a darning needle.
Cut a broad rim from the lid and prick 16 holes.
Then weave a spiderweb through the pre-pricked holes.
You can click the thumbnail of the template to download the enlarged template. The template is about 10 cm (appr. 4 inches), if your lid size is different you will possibly have to adapt the print size.
Weave the spiderweb: always over and under the threads, as long as you like.
Subsequently I complemented the yarn with another with a matching colour and wrapped both around the broad plastic rim.
The crochet hook made the work sometimes easier but isn’t necessary.
I glued the ornament onto a card but you can attach it to a wooden stick, e.g. a kebab skewer, too, and put into a flower box or a flower bed.
I made this ornament with a lid from the same joghurt and with acrylic yarn, also.
Cut your joghurt cup lid following this template (click the thumbnail of the template to download the enlarged template. The template is about 10 cm (appr. 4 inches), if your lid size is different you will possibly have to adapt the print size.)
You must also cut the black lines in the petals, but they must not reach the edge.
Begin ‘in’ a petal and weave both wings of the petal in eights until they are completely covered in yarn (from the center to the left and back to the center, from the center to the right and back to the center, repeat).
Then prick a hole in the center of the flower and weave a net (in a contrasting colour) (see photo).
Weave the yarn around the threads, always over and under the thread.
If you use the ornament as a pin or for a greeting card it is enough to weave only one side of the flower, otherwise you must work on both sides.
Of course this ornament has been made with a lid from the same joghurt and with acrylic yarn ;-)
This time a darning needle is absolutely necessary.
Cut and prick your joghurt cup lid following this template (click the thumbnail of the template to download the enlarged template. The template is about 10 cm (appr. 4 inches), if your lid size is different you will possibly have to adapt the print size.)
Simply embroider the pattern: always in and out and if you like, back again.
Links:
Here at unikatissima:
Jewelry for the Garden
Tomato Tube Leaves
Here on this page:
Instruction for the 1. decoration
Instruction for the 2. decoration
Instruction for the 3. decoration
