Monday, 7 January 2008

Learning to embroider #1

Armed with Doodle Stitching, a piece of white fabric, a chunky needle and some bargain embroidery thread (20 skeins for £2.99 from Wilkinson, Bargain!) I embarked upon my embroidery “voyage”. At first I just practised the different stitches:




This took forever, I just couldn’t get a lot of the instructions (that’s probably not Aimee Rays fault it’s probably my dopiness). Next I thought I’d try one of the more simple designs in the book which was actually a border for a top, but I did it across the bottom of my trusty white piece of fabric.




This was actually a good way to practice the stitches, my chain stitch and scallop stitch improved a lot. I also realised that embroidery is a long term thing. I mainly do it when I’m doing something else like watching TV or whatever, cause each design takes quite a while to finish. Next up I thought I’d try something more advanced, which was flowers using the lazy daisy and satin stitch:



This design was definitely time consuming!! Probably because it was my own design (the book shows how to do flowers but it was my design) First I did the vines, then the leaves, then the petals, then the centres and I had my first taste of embroidery with multiple colours!!, it definitely took a while to get the hang of changing colours all the time, it got so annoying tying each colour off then starting a new one. So after completing this design I decided to take a little break from embroidery, it kinda drained me!! By now however I decided that I would fill my white piece of fabric up with different embroidery designs so tune in next time for more embroidery antics!

7 comments:

Sketched Soul said...

As-salaamu'alaykum wa Rahmatu Llahi wa Barakatuhu my dearest sister,

Ooo... lovely, lovely! Masha'Allah! It looks like you've really got the hang of it, makes me want to try some out.

I look forward to seeing more of your work, insha'Allah.

Wa'alaykum as-salaam
Love Farhana

Anonymous said...

Those flowers are amazing!! I used to love "cross stitching" in school, you know when you had the material with holes in and "cross stitched" on them? Aww I want to do this now.

Atypical said...

Farhana: thanks for dropping by and commenting, haha yeh it took a while but i think i've got the hang of it! i saw the book doodle stitching by Aimee Ray and thats what made me want to start embroidery

Mishy: The flowers took the longest to do too! yeh i remember cross stitching i think we had to make something for mothers day using that, i'll lend you the book if you want:P ( Farhana it's a shame you don't live near by i could have lent it to you too!)

Anonymous said...

how come you won't allow comments from me? i've left 2 and they both havn't showen up =(

I'm loving the embroidery! the last time I did some was in primary school i went to an after school embroidery class thing. Made my dad a butterfly. We have it framed and on display in the display cabinet

Sketched Soul said...

As-salaamu'alaykum wa Rahmatu Llahi wa Barakatuhu my dearest sister,

Aww..that is so sweet of you!.. yes it is a shame I don't live closer.

So have you worked on any more designs yet??

Wa'alaykum as-salaam
Love Farhana

Atypical said...

Ymiss: lol my blog doesn't like you it told me :) haha i don't why they didn't show up my comments aren't moderated or anything are you sure you clicked on publish ;p. aaaww thats cute...

Farhana: t'is a shame indeed, yes i have done a few i've got exams at the moment so i can't be as creative as i would like but i have done a few so i will blog them very soon

Anonymous said...

think it may have been because i was trying to post comments from my phone...i had free internet access.

It doesn't like me...it LOVES me. I just know ;)