Leaf Embroidery - Day 6 - Leaf stitch

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Today I am going to share the next stitch to embroider a leaf that is "leaf stitch"  It is very simple and easy to do and looks beautiful when embroidered in two colors.

Video tutorial 👇👇

Hope this video is useful to you.  See you in another post.  Bye.

Leaf Embroidery - Day 5 - Herringbone stitch leaf

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Welcome to Day 5 of our Leaf Embroidery series! Today, we're diving into the Herringbone stitch, a versatile and decorative stitch that adds texture and dimension to your leaf embroidery projects. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced embroiderer, the Herringbone stitch is a fantastic addition to your stitching repertoire.

The Herringbone stitch, also known as the plaited stitch, is characterized by its unique interlaced pattern. It creates a series of diagonal lines that intersect, forming a herringbone-like pattern. This stitch is not only aesthetically pleasing but also adds a lovely texture to your embroidery.

video tutorial👇👇👇

Tips for Perfecting Your Herringbone Stitch

• Practice on Scrap Fabric: If you're new to the Herringbone stitch, practice on a piece of scrap fabric before working on your final piece.
• Maintain Tension: Keep your stitches snug but not too tight to avoid puckering the fabric.
• Experiment with Floss Colors: Try using different shades of green or even variegated floss to add depth and interest to your leaf.

The Herringbone stitch is a beautiful way to add texture and interest to your leaf embroidery. Its crisscrossing pattern mimics the natural veins of a leaf, making it an ideal choice for a project. Remember, practice makes perfect, so don't be discouraged if your first few attempts aren't flawless. With time and patience, you'll master this stitch and create stunning leaf embroidery pieces.

Happy Embroidering.

Feel free to share your progress and finished pieces with us. I love seeing your creations and the unique twists you bring to each project. Stay tuned for more embroidery tutorials and tips in my Leaf Embroidery series!

Leaf Embroidery - Day 4 - Fly stitch Leaf

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Hope all are doing well and good.  Today I am going to share the fourth stitch to embroidery leaves i.e) fly stitch.  Very very easy to do and can easily done to fill up leaves. 

Video Tutorial👇👇👇

Hope you all like this tutorial.  Have a happy time with your needle n thread.  

Leaf Embroidery - Day 3 - Granitos Stitch Leaves

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Hope all are doing well and good.  Today I am happy to share with you the third stitch for small bud sized leaves.  The name of the stitch is Granitos stitch.

Video Tutorial👇👇

Hope you find this tutorial useful.  See you soon in another design.  Till then, happy embroidering and have a happy time with your needle n thread.  

Leaf Embroidery - Day 2 - Fishbone Stitch

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Today I am happy to share with you the second stitch that is apt for leaves i.e) fishbone stitch.

Video Tutorial

Hope you find this tutorial useful.  Have a happy time with your needle n thread.  

Buttonhole Bar Stitch video Tutorial

Today I am happy to share with you the video tutorial for buttonhole bar stitch.  

Video 👇👇

The Picture tutorial can be found here.

Hope you find this tutorial useful.  Do try it and share your feedbacks in the comments.  

Have a nice day and have a happy time with your needle n thread.

Buttonhole Bar stitch tutorial

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Today I am happy to share with you the stitch tutorial for "buttonhole bar". 

Let's move on to the tutorial

1)  First make 2-3 straight stitches as a foundation for this stitch.  I have made 3 here and the stitches are 2 cm long.

2)  Bring the needle up at one end and without picking the fabric pass the needle below the foundation stitches and make a blanket stitch.  We can make blanket stitches above/below.

3)One blanket stitch is made.

4) Continue doing blanket stitches till you cover the foundation stitches. The picture below shows the stitch halfway through.

5)  Anchor the last stitch at the end of the foundation stitches.  

6)  Buttonhole bar stitch is made.  It looks like cast on stitch.  Here I have made 3 buttonhole bar stitches. 

You can view the video tutorial here.

Hope you find this tutorial useful.  

Have great day.  Happy embroidering. 

Leaf Embroidery - Day 1 - Lazy daisy stitch leaves

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Today I am happy to start the new embroidery series on embroidering leaves.  

First comes the simple lazy daisy stitch leaves.  I have used all 6 strands to embroidery this simple pattern.  

Video Tutorial

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Hope you find this tutorial useful.  See you soon in my next post.  Till then, have a happy time with your needle n thread.  

Pistil stitch flower embroidery design

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Hope all are doing well and good.  Today I am happy to share with you a simple embroidery design for beginners.  It features pistil stitch flowers and twisted chain stitch.  The video below shows how to do the stitches.

Leaves are done in two ways and the circle line is embroidered using twisted chain stitch.  

Video Tutorial 👇👇

Pattern for the design

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Anchor Threads used

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Flowers - 335 & 302

Leaves & lines - 239

French knots in flower centre - 355

Pistil stitch in between leaves - 302

Stitches used

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Flowers - Pistil stitch - 3 strands

Leaves - Fishbone & Fancy leaf(watch video) - 6 strands

Stem - Back stitch - 6 strands

Circle - Twisted Chain stitch - 6 strands

Centre of flowers - French knots - 6 strands - 1 wrap

Hope you all like this design.  See you soon with another design.  Till then, have a nice time with your needle and thread.

Kutchwork border design with mirror for beginners

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Hope all are doing well and good.  Today I am happy to share with you another simple Kutch work design that can be used as borders.  This can also be used in the yoke part of a kurti.  You can also expand this design to make it as an overall design.  Hope you like it.

Video Tutorial

Pattern for the design 

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I have used 6 strands of thread to embroider this design.  You can use sequins or mirrors for the circle part.  

I am hoping that this design will be useful.  See you soon with another design.  Till then have a nice day.  Have a nice time with needle n thread.

A simple kutch work design for beginners

 A simple kutch work motif for beginners.

Video Tutorial 👇👇

Pattern

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You can find a kurti yoke design using this pattern here.  Hope you all like this pattern.  Do give a try and let me know in the comments.  

See you soon with another embroidery series.  Till then have a nice time with your needle and thread.  

Kutch work yoke design with pattern

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Hope all are doing well and doing.  Today I am happy to share with you a kutch work yoke design.  It is worked on silk cotton fabric with 6 strands of anchor thread.  

Video Tutorial can be found here

Pattern

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You can print it in an A4 paper and work with 6 strands of thread. 

Hope you all like this pattern.  See you soon with another design. 

Thank you and have a nice day.

Embroidered hoop art with verse

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Today I am happy to share with you a simple hoop design with a bible verse.  

Pattern for the design 

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Stitches used

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Round flowers - Woven rose 

(6 strands for spokes, 12 strands for weaving)

big leaves - fishbone stitch ( 6 strands)

Stem - Stem stitch (6 strands)

small leaves - straight stitches ( 6 strands)

Hope all of you like this design.  See you soon with another design.  Have a nice day.

2 ways to do mirror embroidery using Long tailed daisy stitch

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Here is a video tutorial to do mirror work in 2 ways using the long tailed daisy stitch.  Very easy and can be done within minutes.  It makes a great motif as an over all design.  

Video Tutorial👇👇

Hope all of you like this video.  See you soon with another stitch tutorial.  Till then, have a nice time with your needle and thread.  

Popcorn flower coaster

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Hope all are doing well and good.  Happy to share with you a crochet coaster pattern with you after some time.  

Video tutorial

Materials Needed

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4 ply acrylic yarn

4mm crochet hook

Let's move onto the pattern.

Rnd 1:

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With color A

In magic ring, ch 3(counts as 1st dc)

11 dc  in the ring

slip stitch in 3rd chain of ch 3.

Rnd 2:

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ch 3, dc in base of ch 3

(2 dc in each dc around)

slip stitch in 3rd chain of ch 3

Rnd 3:

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ch 3, dc in base of ch 3

(dc in next stitch

2 dc in next stitch) around.  Ends with 1 dc

Slip stitch to 3rd chain of ch 3.

Rnd 4:

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ch 3, dc in base of ch 3

(dc in next 2 stitches

2 dc in next stitch) around.  Ends with 1 dc

Slip stitch to 3rd chain of ch 3.

Rnd 5:

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ch 3, dc in base of ch 3

(dc in next 3 stitches

2 dc in next stitch) around.  Ends with 1 dc

Slip stitch to 3rd chain of ch 3.

Fasten off Color A.

Rnd 6:

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Attach color B with a standing dc

dc in the same stitch as joining

ch 2

2dctog in the same stitch

[ch 1

skip 2 stitches

(2dctog, ch 2, 2 dctog) in next stitch] around

ch 1, slip stitch to standing dc

Fasten off color B.

Rnd 7:

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Attach Color C with a slip stitch in any ch 1 space

[chain 2

6dc popcorn in next chain 2 space

chain 2

slip stitch in next chain 1 space]

ending with slip stitch in 1st slip stitch.

Fasten off color C.

Hope you all like this pattern.  See you soon with another design.  Have a nice time.

 

Kutch work cushion cover design

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Hope all are doing well and good.  Today I am happy to share with you an easy kutch work design that can be used for cushion covers.   

Video Tutorial

Hope you all like it.. You can use it for your personal use.  See you soon with another stitch tutorial.  Till then have a nice day and have a happy time with your needle and thread.

Buttonhole Wheel stitch tutorial | How to do buttonhole wheel stitch

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Today I am happy to share with you all a simple tutorial for buttonhole wheel stitch.  This stitch is made up of buttonhole stitches in round.  This will form a wheel pattern. 

1) To do that stitch first start of with a circle and mark the centre point.  

2) Bring the needle up at one point in the circle

3) From the centre point take a stitch towards the circle with the thread under the needle 

4) Pull through the thread.  You will get the first blanket stitch.

5).  Continue doing blanket stitches around the circle starting from the centre.

6)  To finish off insert the needle behind the first blanket stitch 

7)  Buttonhole Wheel Stitch is made.

You can add a French knot or a bead in the centre to form beautiful and simple flowers.  

You can find the video tutorial here.

Hope you all find this tutorial useful.  see you soon with another interesting design.  Till then, have a nice time with your needle and thread. 

Barette clips with crochet flowers

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Hope all are doing well and good.  Today I am happy to share with you a hair accessory which I have made with crochet flowers.  

If you love to make one by yourself you can follow the video below 

If you don’t have time to make one for yourself, you can purchase them from me in the following insta page.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C37u76pvVzg/?igsh=NjlxMWltOWlqbDBm

Hope you like this product and tutorial.  Do follow my insta page for more handmade products.  Also subscribe my YouTube channel if you like to watch hand embroidery videos.

Thank you and have a nice day.

Buttonhole Wheel stitch - Video Tutorial with a simple design

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Hope all are doing well and good.  Today I am happy to share with you an easy embroidery stitch tutorial. That is buttonhole wheel stitch.  It is the buttonhole stitch when worked in a round forms a buttonhole wheel stitch.  This stitch will be appropriate to stitch circle and also the easiest one to embroider flowers in round shape.  Let’s move on to the tutorial.

Hope all of you find this tutorial helpful.  See you soon with another simple design.  Till then, have a happy time with your needle and thread.

Simple Kutch work neck design for kurtis

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Happy new year.  Hope all are doing well and good.  

Since I am busy with the renovation work in our home I am not able to post regularly.  Trying to design, embroider and make videos in my free time and that’s why a long gap.  

Today I am happy to share with you this simple neck design with basic Kutch work motif.

I have used 6 strands for Kutch work.  And 3 strands for stems and leaves.  Neckline, stems are done using stem stitch.  Leaves are done using herringbone stitch.

Video Tutorial 👇👇

Pattern for the design 

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Print these patterns in an A4 paper in landscape mode.  Then you can draw the whole neck design by placing an A3 size tracing paper over the A4 paper.  Then transfer the design onto the fabric using carbon paper.

Hope all of you like this design.  See you soon with another tutorial.  Till then, have a nice time with your needle and thread.