r/Hand_Embroidery

I have a friend who just had ear surgery and i thought it would be funny to embroider “new year, new ear” as a gift. I’ve never done my own pattern before. Tell me everything. How would I do the ear? Initial thought is to use the emoji? Then what? Print it and trace with a heat pen? How would you choose the colours? I notice there is some shading which makes me nervous it wouldn’t come out if I’d just did two colours- a flesh colour for the ear and slightly darker for the details. Let me know your thoughts! TIA!

Decided to make a kitschy sign for the house, I drew the lettering on some paper and then let my daughter (6yrs old) design the rest. I did add the vines to help balance things out.. nothing really fancy and not perfect, but for just winging it and playing around I’m happy with how this turned out ☺️

I wanted to thank all of you who were so happy to help with my project! I’ve had a few requests to keep updating my progress, so here it is! I’m hoping to finish it either today or tomorrow, and I’m fairly proud of how it’s coming along!

I’ve done quite a bit of cross stitch before but decided to try my hand at embroidery with this beautiful kit from wimperis embroidery.

Good morning! I got this cute little embroidery kit and wanted to try my hand at it. As you can see this is as far as I got. Do I start with #1/eyes? Or #13 dark green and do the outside first moving towards the center? Or do I need to draw the picture on the embroidery surface and go off of that?
Please help, any tips welcome!

Help much appreciated - after a long gap I’ve restarted my embroidery and am doing this DMC mindful making carnations piece, which is the 4th project in these colours (already finished the other 3). But I’ve lost the piece of paper with the stitch guide and can’t find it online anywhere. 🫢

I have all the colours in my WIP box so am fine with which colour goes where, but I’m not sure which stitches they’ve used?

So far, I think the green leaves are stem stitch and ?chain stitch?

Centre of the flowers are obviously French knots

Petals look like Long & Short stitch?

Outside Edge of the petals has flummoxed me though.

Any ideas? Thank you in advance!

EDITED TO ADD: Solved! Thank you for the suggestion to email DMC - they replied within a few minutes and sent me a pdf of the stitch guide! (In case it helps anyone else, the outside of the petals are done in what DMC calls buttonhole thread - off to look up how to do it). Thanks again!

This started out as an emotional, tactile anchor, but it has evolved into a multifunctional art piece—and now it’s turning into something involving exhibitions! 🥹✨

Aside from doing a bunch of the lazy daisy stitch, this is my first complete project! I think it looks pretty good, but I’d love any advice! Apologies for the different lighting, the first one is closer to how it looks in real life. I didn’t get a great picture of it before I had to leave for the birthday party.

This one took about 10 hours. The horns were the hardest part — getting the asymmetry right so it didn't look too tidy. Every flower is silk ribbon, shaped and stitched petal by petal.

Just found this photograph of my first attempt at embroidery on a hand sewn cushion. It was made many years ago, before I even began my Foundation Diploma In Art & Design. I still think it's a pretty design but it is very amateurish looking at it now. Both designs came from a book a friend loaned me and I put the Peacock design together with the floral design thinking they complimented each other as I love animals and natural world as inspiration. I'm sure I still have the cushion in a storage box somewhere.

This is a red knit balaclava decorated with realistic ants. I wanted to share my latest wearable art project!

Project details:

• Process: Only hand embroidery (the balaclava base was not made by me).
• Embroidery: Hand-embroidered using different sizes of glossy black glass beads for the ant bodies.
• Details: The legs and antennas are crafted using specialized stiff thread/monofilament to create a 3D effect.
• Base: Red knit fabric.