Aesthetic Embroidery - How-to
Recently something that's been going around the internet is a person who created beautiful nature scenes by embroidery. When I was a kid embroidery was something I did from time to time and so I have some experience with the hobby, because of these two things I decided to try to create a scene out of embroidery. But because I'm nowhere near as talented as the other artist, I decided I would go for a more minimalistic and simple scene, which is more my taste anyway. So in this post, I'll be going through the steps I took to create this scene and how you can also create a scene from embroidery for yourself!
To start off there are a few basic and relatively inexpensive supplies you will need for this. The things you will need are as follows:
Next, once you have gathered your supplies put an appropriate amount of fabric into the hoop, you don't want to use too much, but you also don't want to have so little that it easily slips out of the hoop. Following getting supplies, choose what you will be stitching, I chose to do a simple landscape with mountains and then hills of flowers, but you can do anything you want. Finally chose your thread colors and thread your needle with the first color.
What I did first was stitch the larger objects in my landscape, which for me was the lines marking the hills and the mountains.
You can add details first and then large objects but I personally found it easier to get the large things stitched first so then you can plan the details around the larger things rather than the larger things around the details.
After I finished the large objects I filled in the little details. For my scene the detail was simply stitching little flowers in, to achieve this I created little X's with my thread (another reason why embroidery fabric is easier to use, it has little holes in it making symmetry easier).
Throughout the whole process, I would tie the string at the end of a flower so that I wouldn't waste string, but you can obviously keep one continuous string throughout the entire scene (for things of the same color). In the end, the back looked like this with all the individual tying of the string.
After you create your scene you can leave it in the hoop or take it out of the hoop for display.
To start off there are a few basic and relatively inexpensive supplies you will need for this. The things you will need are as follows:
- An embroidery hoop
- Embroidery thread (I suppose you could use regular string but I'm not sure how it would work out)
- Embroidery fabric (you can also use regular fabric but it might not turn out quite right because it isn't designed for embroidery)
- Any basic sewing needle
Next, once you have gathered your supplies put an appropriate amount of fabric into the hoop, you don't want to use too much, but you also don't want to have so little that it easily slips out of the hoop. Following getting supplies, choose what you will be stitching, I chose to do a simple landscape with mountains and then hills of flowers, but you can do anything you want. Finally chose your thread colors and thread your needle with the first color.
What I did first was stitch the larger objects in my landscape, which for me was the lines marking the hills and the mountains.
As you may be able to see in the above picture, I lightly sketched an outline for where I would place things, although you have to be careful to not make the lines too dark cause they won't come out of the fabric easily if you don't cover them with thread.
You can add details first and then large objects but I personally found it easier to get the large things stitched first so then you can plan the details around the larger things rather than the larger things around the details.
After I finished the large objects I filled in the little details. For my scene the detail was simply stitching little flowers in, to achieve this I created little X's with my thread (another reason why embroidery fabric is easier to use, it has little holes in it making symmetry easier).
Throughout the whole process, I would tie the string at the end of a flower so that I wouldn't waste string, but you can obviously keep one continuous string throughout the entire scene (for things of the same color). In the end, the back looked like this with all the individual tying of the string.
After you create your scene you can leave it in the hoop or take it out of the hoop for display.
This is what mine looked like outside of the embroidery hoop.
If you decide to stitch a scene with embroidery, let me know how it turns out!!
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I tried this out and it worked perfectly!
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