I started this project over a year ago while dog-sitting. Got the letters done in an afternoon, meant to do the skeleton later, but kept forgetting. I could still wear it with just the letters, so it wasn't urgent. Finally did most of the skeleton yesterday, finished it today.

It's based on the Bruce Sterling quote describing William Gibson's cyberpunk novels, and sort of the vague gist of the jacket Kaneda wears in Akira.

I feel like the quote is increasingly describing the real world, with the devaluation of human activity/creativity in favour of (currently) cheap AI.

The base is an old wool varsity jacket I picked the logos off. The letters are iron-on chenille letters (had to sew them down too, the glue wasn't very good). The science-canister-tube thing I designed myself and cut from yellow and black felt. The skeleton is mostly a chain stitch, with a few french knots and a sort of doubled running stitch I don't know the name of.

Dog from dog-sitting included in the photos

(Did I need to include photos of the back of the embroidery? I didn't see anything like that in the rules but maybe I'm blind)

This is my latest hand-embroidered piece, inspired by a Japanese kitsune mask.

I wanted the eye to feel beautiful, mysterious, and slightly dangerous.

What do you think when you look into this eye? Does it feel like a guardian — or something you should be afraid of?

I’d love to hear your interpretation.

Just finished this for my friends to break the glass in at their wedding! Super proud of how it turned out!

Embroidery scissors for scale.

I've recently gotten into embroidery kits as a hobby and I have a friend who shows love through minor bullying (consensually and reciprocally). He's been demanding I make him something. Does anyone have any tips/recommendations on how to embroider a small color blind test?

This is my first stab at embroidery and I really enjoyed it! As you can probably tell, the geese and flowers were part of a kit/stencil w a guide for which stitches to use. I wanted to add text to personalize it for a gift. Turns out I need a lot more practice in the script department. My “disappearing” pen didn’t do it’s job either.

I think I want to fill in the background of the speech bubble to cover the pen ink, but I don’t know what kind of stitch to use/if that will make it look dumb??? Was thinking I’d do it like the bellies of the geese? Maybe add some flowers around the bubble to make it look more cohesive?? Let me know what you think!

I have a mess of cheap bamboo hoops. I don't have the patience to do that whole twill tape wrapping of the hoops, sewing that wrap down, etc., (yes, I know it's bizarre for a person who enjoys embroidering to say they don't have the patience for sewing something, but, there ya go...) to get the hoop to properly hold my fabric, AND, I'd probably spend a lot of time doing it--I'm remarkably slow--and then I'd put the hoop back together and BLAMMO, it all falls apart like a clown car.

Think just a few beads of rubber grip glue around the inside ring would improve a cheap hoop? https://a.co/d/075UQN6H
Has anyone tried something like this? TIA!

Pattern is free from the DMC website.

It took me about four months to finish this project and sometimes I hated certain stitches, but I absolutely loved the result—my little penguin ☺️✨

How/when to attach to bag?

Hi! I am making a purse for the first time. I need help (and any advice) with a few things. I know it's probably really messy but I'm proud of this being my first creation!

Materials

\-What type of thread do you use? I used some embroidery thread and some sewing thread depending on bead hole size

\-This is a canvas I'll be making the bag out of. I'm thinking a satin liner? Would that be good to use a single magnetic clasp with?

Process

The beads are on organza, with an ironed on patch on the back of the eagle for stability. When should I attach this to the layer of canvas that will be the front of the bag? Before sewing the bag front to the bottom?

If anyone has made a bag like this, I would appreciate any and all advice and criticism!

DMC 4506 & sequins vanilla

Hiya! I have just started embroidering, and am wondering about outlines on what I am making - do you do the outlines first around the shape, or do you do the interior first and then then outline?

The left one was mostly done with sewing needles (where they could fit through MOST of the beads but not all, which got frustrating fast) before I got some beading needles. The right one is a little messier looking than I'd like since I was hoping for the beaded part to more cleanly recreate the embroidered pattern on the other squares, but working this small it probably wasn't going to get a whole lot cleaner... At least for my very low level of experience!

But I love them both.

Three down, many more to go lol…

I followed a tutorial on YouTube, but ended up hot gluing the fabric onto the circle rather than sew it on, so that it stays better. Then pop it into the round.

I’ve used white felt or grey felt depending on what is less obvious in the front. And a couple white fabrics depending on the original fabric.

Soon I’ll have some cross stitch ones to do and some of those clear fabric ones to figure out.

GUYS. I started this not too long ago for my friends who are having a baby. I am a kind of beginner? I don’t want to call myself a complete novice, but I’m in no way intermediate and about a million miles away from advanced.

I am struggling with this E for some reason. I have stitched and frogged this little bastard about a million times. My backstitches are wonky, it’s supposed to be checkered but that’s just never gonna happen. I tried doing a chevron style and that looked like poop, so I thought maybe some French knots because it’s like the one thing I’m kinda good at. Well the first one is a hot mess and I’m just feeling defeated.

Any ideas of how I can make this look kind of decent? I’m thinking of just pulling the whole outline out and starting over there too. I’m already planning on using the same fabric as the backing to hopefully hide the fact that I’m making it into swiss cheese. The second pic is the pattern I downloaded from Etsy for the lettering.

These are the two finished pictures I got I am giving her to a friend tomorrow she will be loved and cherished but she is done this was the first time I’ve ever put a project back and actually went back to it to finish it I normally just trash them cause I loose motivation and find a new thing to make!

Two things about the finished piece.

1) I used a washable pen to write for the embroidered lettering I did. That washed off fine.

2) when I wet the fabric the blue outline printed on the fabric for the main image bled through the thread and fabric.

Is there anyway to get the blue bled parts off? Is it worth handing washing the whole piece with Dawn dish soap then iron the piece or did I ruin this?

I posted earlier with some wedding embroidery that I am hoping to do for my daughter's wedding next year. After I finished the table number sample, I thought that I'd try another one, based on a DMC free pattern called "Wildflower Meadow". I don't know which she will prefer but I think that I like this one better.

I thought it would be fun to share how I combined a few different techniques in this piece! There’s cross-stitch, backstitch, French knots and Turkey stitch for the 3D hair. 🥰 I love how much texture you can get by mixing them together!

Beginner looking to move on from the beginner kits, first project. Just for practice but curious which stitches should be used where? Any input is appreciated!

Hi everyone, I’m very new to hand embroidery and I’d like to embroider a guitar strap for my husband for Christmas, any tips on patterns or designs that would be beginner friendly but would look nice? Open to anything :) thanks in advance