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I used to do hand and cross stitch embroidery yrs ago. Have not worked with any of it in several yrs, but recently I have felt the urge to begin working in hand embroidery again. Hand embroidery in the satin stitch was the first thing my Mom taught me to do with colorful threads when I was a teenager back in the late 1960s. It was her favorite stitch and way to create in embroidery. She hated cross stitch claiming there was no real talent in it thinking it was only following a pattern and no creative ability involved. I on the other hand loved cross stitch and would either combine 2 or more areas of different patterns together to make a new unique piece or I would change colors and move things around within a pattern to fit how I thought it should look. That in itself did take some creativity to accomplish. My favorite to work with was the satin or rayon embroidery threads. I always loved the sheen satin gave the picture. I didn't start working in cross stitch til I was in my 20s & married in the mid 1970s.
I recently watched several youtube videos on the art of Chinese silk embroidery. Such beautiful intricate works of art these people create! Well, that set me to wanting to try my hand at this new venture and I ordered a couple of pieces of silk fabric from a felting site that sells it. It will be here tomorrow and I will see if it is suitable for embroidering on. I also ordered silk embroidery threads from a site in China offering 100 colors for a very good price. This will be filament silk threads, not spun silk so we shall see if I am capable of working with it when it comes in. What I read about filament silk is it lays flatter which allows it to shine better than spun silk which has a twist to it. I don't expect this order in til the end of the month or maybe next month. I have never ordered anything direct from China before, but have read it can take a good long while to get to the US. I have time to wait since I still need to finish my loom beaded vulture first before starting something new.
Example i started learning the basics to the flat even count peyote stitching but cant seem to find a simple but challenging design to start out with.....before i even get close to finishing the project it doesnt turn out anything like the pictures....so i started to browse youtube to double check myself and watched some different tutorials & i have all the right steps down, but still cant seem to get it just right please help......also im interested in learniing other stitches as well
what stitches did you start after mastering peyote
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Hi, me again, I'm new to this amazing program and community. I'm making a cushion cover for the much beloved for Christmas
What's the "standard" stitch if you pick knit in the free pattern wizard, I know the crochet one is US single
Does it mean knit on the right side and purl the wrong side or knit all and end up with garter stitch
Thanks again, sorry getting confused and fretting over it 😕
this is how dumb men are though because if a man had a brain cell then men wouldn't start wars and kill each other and women and children over oil and god only knows what else all through history it's always been a man who starts a bloody war you never see us women starting wars it's always the men who start them and us women have to sort out the shit they create
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I used to do hand and cross stitch embroidery yrs ago. Have not worked with any of it in several yrs, but recently I have felt the urge to begin working in hand embroidery again. Hand embroidery in the satin stitch was the first thing my Mom taught me to do with colorful threads when I was a teenager back in the late 1960s. It was her favorite stitch and way to create in embroidery. She hated cross stitch claiming there was no real talent in it thinking it was only following a pattern and no creative ability involved. I on the other hand loved cross stitch and would either combine 2 or more areas of different patterns together to make a new unique piece or I would change colors and move things around within a pattern to fit how I thought it should look. That in itself did take some creativity to accomplish. My favorite to work with was the satin or rayon embroidery threads. I always loved the sheen satin gave the picture. I didn't start working in cross stitch til I was in my 20s & married in the mid 1970s.
I recently watched several youtube videos on the art of Chinese silk embroidery. Such beautiful intricate works of art these people create! Well, that set me to wanting to try my hand at this new venture and I ordered a couple of pieces of silk fabric from a felting site that sells it. It will be here tomorrow and I will see if it is suitable for embroidering on. I also ordered silk embroidery threads from a site in China offering 100 colors for a very good price. This will be filament silk threads, not spun silk so we shall see if I am capable of working with it when it comes in. What I read about filament silk is it lays flatter which allows it to shine better than spun silk which has a twist to it. I don't expect this order in til the end of the month or maybe next month. I have never ordered anything direct from China before, but have read it can take a good long while to get to the US. I have time to wait since I still need to finish my loom beaded vulture first before starting something new.
Example i started learning the basics to the flat even count peyote stitching but cant seem to find a simple but challenging design to start out with.....before i even get close to finishing the project it doesnt turn out anything like the pictures....so i started to browse youtube to double check myself and watched some different tutorials & i have all the right steps down, but still cant seem to get it just right please help......also im interested in learniing other stitches as well
what stitches did you start after mastering peyote
And so on ETC.
THANKS IN ADVANCE
Hi, me again, I'm new to this amazing program and community. I'm making a cushion cover for the much beloved for Christmas
What's the "standard" stitch if you pick knit in the free pattern wizard, I know the crochet one is US single
Does it mean knit on the right side and purl the wrong side or knit all and end up with garter stitch
Thanks again, sorry getting confused and fretting over it 😕
this is how dumb men are though because if a man had a brain cell then men wouldn't start wars and kill each other and women and children over oil and god only knows what else all through history it's always been a man who starts a bloody war you never see us women starting wars it's always the men who start them and us women have to sort out the shit they create
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