Some tutorials, tips, and pointers I’ve put together this year.
- My Parking Method – Keeping multiple threads ‘in play’ as you stitch. Useful for large patterns with a lot of confetti.
- Recording Your Embroidery – Keep that camera steady so your viewer can follow what you’re doing.
- Sewing the Edges on Hand-Made Patches – Works best with simple shapes, but can be adapted with practise.
- Various Embroidery Mounts – Differences between hoops, scroll frames, Q-snaps, and stretcher bars, with pros and cons for each.
- Using Variegated Floss – Different ways to use variegated or overdyed floss, and what each method looks like on the fabric.
- Creating Your Own Photo Pattern – Tutorial uses PCStitch, but any software or web app works with this method.
- Adding New Floss Colours to PCStitch – New DMC colours will be coming out next month. Here’s how to add them to your colour library!
- Framing Your Embroidery in a Hoop – No glue or tape needed. Keeps your embroidery nice and tight in the hoop for as long as it lives there.
- Marble Dye Method – Hand died fabric made ultra-simple. Just need a bowl and a microwave. And your dye, of course.
- Gridding Fabric with Pens and Floss/Filament – Two methods for gridding your fabric, with pros and cons for each.
- Using Stretcher Bars with your Embroidery – Stretcher bars are weird and scary. Learn how to use them without hurting your embroidery.
- Loop Start Method – Who says you can only do a loop start with two strands? Learn how to do it with three.
- Tent Stitch – Learn what it is, and when you want to use it.
- Railroading and Laying Tools – Keep your stitches looking nice and even, no matter how many strands you’re using.
- Creating Alphabet Charts – Use any font on the internet to create an easily stitchable alphabet chart, in any size you need.
- Repairing Torn Fabric – If you tear your fabric while you’re frogging a section, don’t start over. Fix it.
- Photographing Glow in the Dark Floss – This one gives a lot of people trouble. Learn how to cheat your way through with black lights.
- 1 over 1 vs 1 over 2 – What’s the difference and when to use each.
- Different Fabric Types – Differences between Aida, Evenweave, and Hardanger.
- One-Stranded Loop Start – Yep. One strand. Up that start game by getting rid of knots and tangles.
- Frogging a Large Project – Avoid ruining your fabric by accidentally tearing it while ripping out all those stitches.
- Thread Heaven on a Budget – Get the same stuff at supermarket prices.
- Using Metallic Floss – A few tips for making metallic floss suck less.
- Filming Your Embroidery – Want to get started on Twitch or YouTube? Here’s some technical help.
- Blocking Your Finished Work – Blocking isn’t just for knitters. Get your finished work wrinkle-free without ever touching an iron.
Updates, my dudes.