My Embroidery Story

 Hello you my dear friends and those I have yet to met.

If you have been following me I have done quite a lot of different crafts. However, Embroidery has scared me, as I have heard so many stories of woe and despair I thought to myself NO WAY am I doing that. But I have found an amazing website called cutseycrafts.com I can’t tell you of it all because there is so much information. As the days go by I will refer to it. I hope in doing this Blog that I will inspire anybody like myself to do it. 

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  To start it advises us to download and print out the free stitch guide. Which I have done and transferred the patterns on to your chosen material. I am using white cotton. I used my light box to put the pattern on the cotton. They advise a 7”embroidery hoop, however, this one is 6 and a half. Pull the embroidery as taught as possible.
  
  
  

I have decided to use just the one colour so we can see the stitching better. I am using a royal blue but I will need to use another colour later on the sampler.

Day 2

6 stitches

Not perfect and the Blanket stitch, Fishbone and Woven Wheel only part way done but with these few stitches I can make a start on a project. I know they aren’t straight but I can work with that. A Sampler is  a great   

 way to practice whichever stitch you are about to use. I’m going to get a cuppa and a naughty something and go for a surf on cutseycrafts.com to find a pattern unless I find 1 of 2 tablecloths.

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Have a great day and play nicely. XXX

Day 3

 

I have printed out this free pattern from cutesycrafts.com this time I used a HB pencil because I can use my eraser to get rid of any lines or rinse it out, where as the pens are more difficult or may even be impossible to get the outline out.

I chose this particular large pattern because 1. It’s has Flowers and 2. It has some of the stitches I practised with the sampler. Before I do the stitch on the flowers. I will use the Sampler to practise it on. u

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