Once you start making a quilt, it becomes very natural for you to get interested in hand embroidery. As a quilter, running stitch and back stitch are the most basic stitches. When making small items like purse or bag you also definitely need blind stitches to put them
together. Other than these basic stitches, I use outlines stitch and French knots to leave my initials to my works when finishing projects.Like applique, embroidery lets you draw freely whatever you want to express on the fabric. Redwork or bluework is the easiest and simplest form of embroidery since it only uses one single color thread and some very basic stitches like stem stitch, outline stitch and satin stitch to name some.
I just wanted to try them all. As usual, no rules. Just had a go.
I started trying tiny object and slowly getting brave and eventually my eyes are fixed in 3D embroidery! Each flower has different stitches and I ended up making a basket and wreath.
3D embroidery takes much longer but very rewarding. I had great fun doing it. The only drawback is unfortunately they are not suitable for daily uses so I decided to put them into frames. I used acryl paint to paint them when necessary.
For a small sized embroidery, I just put them into frames without glass.
This is the pattern I followed from one of Embroidery books.
For a bigger sized embroidery, I attached battings behind and finished seams. To prevent getting loose front, I made some cross net behind.
