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Needle Minders – the perfect Hand Embroidery Gift
Do you keep losing your embroidery needle? You only have to put your needle down for a second when you stop stitching only to find it has magically disappeared when you come to pick it up again! This seems to happen to me a lot which is why I love Needle Minders. A Needle Minder, is a fancy term for what essentially is just a magnet (or in this case 2 magnets). Get 2 magnets and place one on the top of your fabric and the other underneath the fabric so it attracts to the top one – this holds it in place. Then all you need to do is…
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Transfer an Embroidery Pattern to Dark Fabric with the RIGHT Carbon Paper
A question I get asked all the time – how do you transfer an embroidery pattern on to dark fabric? If you have tried (and failed) to find a way of transferring your pattern on to a dark fabric then you’re not alone! There are lots of ways to do this and sometimes you just need to try a few before you find the one that works for you. For me, this is Carbon Paper… In a previous post, I showed how I used Carbon Paper for transfer and the result was good – I wasn’t over the moon about it but it did the job and gave good enough…
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How to Teach yourself Hand Embroidery Stitches
So many stitches can be overwhelming! It’s true – there are an amazing amount of wonderfully different stitches when it comes to Hand Embroidery. However, to enjoy stitching you really only need to know a few and you can teach yourself how to do them in no time, in a fun way so it doesn’t feel like a chore. There are an abundance of talented embroiderers with great blogs giving out a wealth of information on individual stitches. I have a lot of stitch tutorials on this blog which are connected to stitch a longs and actual patterns that use those stitches. I have considered creating posts focused on just…
