One of the big questions when it comes to stepping up from prepared embroidery kits to your own designs is how to transfer the design onto your fabric effectively. There are lots of items out there to try for various approaches which have their pros and cons, however our prefered method is the old school […]
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Pro Tips: Pricking a Design
Prick and Pounce as a method of transfering a design onto your cloth is a great way to get an accurate draft to work from. Much of the embroidery process is about the preparation of your materials and design, as if your preparations are not right the final piece will never be that great no […]
Pro Tips: The Tweezer/Scissor combo
Picture the scene.. ”You’ve just spent X amount of hours embroidering your piece, it has been a labour of love but it was worth it now you see it finished. All you need to do is tidy you threads up and you are done!” Sounds familiar right? The last thing you want to do now […]
Pro Tips: Tambour Handle as a Pricker
Tambour handles are such as great tool, with their turned wood bodies holding the potential to create all manner of beautiful beading. However, what you may not have realised about yours is that if you are only tambouring with your handle, you are not using it to its full potential. As you may have noticed, […]
Pro Tips: Stitching with Both Hands
One of the things about embroidery, particulally hand embroidery, that you can not get away from is that it takes time. It takes a lot of practise to become proficient in each technique and time to keep your skills at a good level. In addition to that there is the time it takes to complete […]
Pro Tips: Threading the Needle
I know you have threaded a needle before, you know you can do it, but sometimes when you sit down to start and sewing project do you feel like you spend more time threading the needle than actually stitching? If so, don’t worry perhaps you haven’t found your threading style just yet. ”Threading style!” I […]