Okay. starting with the first lesson on embroidery stitches. Today. I am sharing the project I made using this very basic embroidery stitch.
Embroidery Stitches : The Running Stitch:
I started off practicing this simple stitch on a tee, but it was a total fail.
Why, you may ask. When I did the first and second stitch, things were fine, but as I proceeded the stretchy material of the fabric became extremely difficult to work with and the thick needle eye completely ruined the look so that it looked anything but good.
Lesson learnt:
Never embroider on a stretchy fabric using hand embroidery needle. Can’t say anything about machine embroidery though.
I think appliques will be fine for tees instead of direct embroidery.
Anyhow, after being super frustrated with my first fail attempt, I decided to go for something that was less stretchy, denim was the easiest choice so I took out these pair of shorts and worked on them,
And it was quite easy.
Although I did have quite few issues with keeping the stitches straight and neat.
I added a little design to the normal running stitch. And, after finishing up my work when I checked with Sarah’s picture dictionary of embroidery stitches, I learnt that I actually used the satin stitch technique with the running stitch.
And after knowing the different types of running stitches, I wanna try them all to make some pattern on a pillow cover or something.
You can notice the flaws prominently here. Although, running stitch is quite simple, but the task of keeping the stitches of same length and maintaining the same distance all the time is quite difficult. And, if that’s not done, the beauty of the stitch is not there.
Since I am a beginner, it took me quite a while to make this simple stitch. I had to undo quite a few too.
Nevertheless, I think the shorts turned out great. 😉
This is the pattern I used on my shorts.
Want some inspiration? Check out this running stitch scarf project.
Another running stitch ombre scarf project
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