Stem Stitch: Hand Embroidery Stem stitch is a useful embroidery stitch to know if you need to embroider lines as part of your design. Obviously it's great for stems, but it can be used in other ways to! It offers an alternative to back stitch and running stitch, and is a slimmer option than chain stitch, which can look a bit chunky. I've used stem stitch for the stems of the flowers on this piece of embroidery I've been working on, and I'm ... Read the Post...
How to Sew a Pouch With a Zip
How to Sew a Pouch With a Zip For this tutorial showing how to sew a pouch with a zip, I wanted to combine 2 things. The first thing was that I wanted to make something pretty out of the daisies that I've been embroidering. The second thing was that I wanted to try out making a pouch with a zip down the centre. I haven't yet decided what I'm going to use it for, but you can never have enough of these things. Like fabric storage boxes, I ... Read the Post...
Woven Wheel Stitch: Hand Embroidery
Woven Wheel Stitch One of the lovely things about embroidering by hand is that you can get all sorts of different textures that you just can't if you use the sewing machine. Woven wheel stitch is a raised stitch and it adds a little bit of a 3D effect to your embroidery. Kind of like French knots, except that they are bigger. You can make them as big or as small as you like, depending on what you need! They are useful for making flower ... Read the Post...
How to Print Onto Fabric With and Without Freezer Paper
How to Print Onto Fabric With and Without Freezer Paper I'm on a bit of an embroidery thing at the moment, and one of the things that I've wanted to find out is how to print onto fabric. There are several ways of transferring embroidery designs onto fabric, including using dressmaking carbon paper or transferring the design onto tissue paper, sewing over the paper then tearing it away when you have finished. However these methods are time ... Read the Post...
