Tag: embroidery

This was a fun one. My satin stitch continues to improve. And it was the easiest thing in the lineup, so I think that’s a win.

Here’s a closeup of my work

And one from the other side. As per usual with Kirkiki Press, I did some ripping out. The middle heart is single strand, but that wasn’t the way I stitched it the first time.

You can also see that I didn’t quite have the spacing correct for the Herringbone Ladder on this side and things got crowded.

Herringbone Ladder was the most challenging thing. I found it hard to wrap my mind around where the loops should start. I eventually got it, though.

The bonus pattern was this cute anatomical heart. It was very quick to stitch up and I didn’t have much trouble with it.

Here’s the full layout, including the coupon code. I greatly admire this company’s business acumen, as well as the artistic merit.

Another of my Etsy patterns, I used embroidery thread again.

This is to mark another pillowcase that covers the cats’ headed pad.

Because I have white sheets on my bed, I like to put a little something in one corner, so I can easily tell which corner goes where. I used my new loom (and followed a pattern I bought off Etsy) to mark one corner.

I’m quite liking the result:

This was the first time I used embroidery thread instead of sashiko thread. It’s very shiny. Here’s what it looks like after the ends are pulled through.

Since this wasn’t a darn and I wasn’t going to walk on the final result, I experimented with tying the knots off instead of weaving them in. This was slightly tedious, but no more so than threading my needle multiple times.

I wanted to mark the pillowcases I use to cover the cats heated loungers, so I tried this pattern on my darning device. I like how it turned out.

Here’s how it looks with the ends pulled back (and before I washed it to get rid of my square and the authentic cat hair.)

It is a very fun machine!

You can see my also-rans. I still like “Cleave ever to the sunny side of doubt”

I went with Century Gothic for the font (font choice was hard!) and held up the bird part to see how the quote fit.

Sadly, I left out the L in “world” and didn’t notice until I was tracing.

Happily, I didn’t like the placement anyway, so I made plans to spray away the quote after I finished embroidering. I can fix both the missing letter and the positioning.

This kit came to me because I needed to spend a few more dollars to get free shipping on Amazon. I searched “embroidery kits” and this popped up. I liked the cat and the colors, and so into my cart it went.

Unlike all the other kits I’ve done, this one seemed to have no creator. I couldn’t find any information about the company. I’m guessing it was made to sell to people who search “embroidery kit” on Amazon. The directions sound like the kit creator speaks another language, in addition to English.

I’m quite pleased with how it turned out.

Let it be known that practice does help improve things. As this Kiriki Press sampler shows, my satin stitch is coming along.

Aside from general satin stitch skill building, the scroll stitch I embroiders, tore out, then practiced on another piece of material for a good chunk of time before I felt confident enough to try again.

The needle weaving was fun, but took a lot of attention. I loved the double herringbone and would like to use more of it in my stitching.

Here’s a close up look that shows off that there are few bald spots on my satin stitch. But I’m fine with it. It’s all about practicing.