Transcripts
1. Skillshare Intro Video: In this class,
you'll learn how to make beautiful
embroidered pendants that combine embroidery floss plus a little tree twig for an
added three D element. Finally, an embroidery project you can complete
in a single day. This class is for those
who love embroidery. Beginners will find it
especially fun because I created this class using only
three types of stitches, which I show you step
by step how to do. Those who embroider at an
advanced level will also enjoy this class because this
necklace is 100% unique, and who doesn't love a fun new embroidery
pattern to work on. With over 500 DMC floss
colors to choose from, you can mix and match
any colors you want. In this class, we will focus on making the pink and red pendant. Before you start,
be sure to print out the PDF step by
step instructions because it contains
your supply list and the templates you'll
need to cut out and print. Within this PDF, you'll
see indicators that tell you when to watch the
next video in Skillshare. I hope you have just as
much fun as I do making beautifully embroidered
jewelry that you can wear yourself or give as gifts
to family and friends.
2. GettingStarted: To begin with, we have our floss and it comes in six strands. We want to separate that into the number of strands that
we need for our project. I'm going to actually
separate this into three strands
and three strands. You can see that when you
pull it, sometimes it. In fact, most of the time, it
will not. But that's okay. I'm doing this
intentionally to show you It's going to
happen, so don't worry. And when it does, just pull the thread from the other end. You can see I'm just
pulling it from the other end and it
gets rid of the tangle, helps get rid of the knot, and then you just start
pulling it apart again. And just repeat this process
until you get all of the thread separated into
the strands that you want. Next, what we want to do is tie a little knot at
the end of the thread. And you can see
it's nothing fancy, just a regular little knot. And then we want to trim
off the excess thread. So now we need to get the
thread through the needle. To do that, I prefer actually using a needle threader is
just quicker and easier, and just saves me a lot of time. The one I'd like to use
is this little metal one. It's super simple
as you can see. It's quick, and it is so easy
to thread things with it. And there we go. Now we have our thread through the
eye of the needle, and we're ready to
do some embroidery.
3. FabriconHoop: To mount the fabric on
the embroidery hoop, just simply pull out the center, place the fabric over it, and put the hoop back
on and then tighten.
4. SatinStitch: O. So let's begin. Taking my needle with my flows already
pre threaded. What we want to do is
come in from the back of the fabric in the
top left corner of where we want to
start our stitch and pull the thread
all the way through. And then before we come back
down on the other side, we want to use the flows to help measure so that we can
get a nice straight line. We're just going
to pull the thread back through on the right side, and then come up again on
the left side from the back. Pull the thread through. And then go down again
on the right side. And to do satin stitches, you just simply
complete this process again and again until you fill up the space that
you want to fill.
5. FrenchKnot: Now, with French knots, there's a lot of apprehension
to get them right, but they're really
not that hard. Simply bring your
needle from the back of the fabric to the
front, pull it through, and then we're going to wrap
the thread around twice, push it back in the same spot roughly
where we just came out of the fabric and pull the thread back down the
hole, making a knot. Let's do this a
couple more times. Again, we're going to
pull the thread through. We're going to wrap it around the needle a couple of times. Then you'll notice the left hand is actually what's
controlling this. You see how I'm able
to control that and pull it as
tight as I want it. The left hand is what
controls the French knot to determine if it's going to be a loose knot or a tight knot, and to just make sure the knot doesn't get out of control. Let's do this one more time. I'm going to pull
the thread through, wrap it around the needle, and you can actually wrap it around as many
times as you want. One, maybe you
want a small knot, maybe three, you
want a large not. It's really up to you for
whatever you're making. Then we just pulled
that through and completed three
beautiful French knots.
6. StraightStitch: Now, with a straight stitch, it's very similar
to a satin stitch. The only difference is
is you're not putting the stitches right next to
each other to fill something. You're just creating lines. You see I came up
from the back of the fabric and then came
across down on the right side. Then I'm going to
come up again from the back of the fabric where
I've marked to come up, pull the thread through and then come back down
on the right side. So super easy and a really useful stitch for all sorts of things that you
want to make an embroidery.
7. StitchAroundTwig: To attach the twig to the
fabric, we've used glue. But what we want to do is
also embroide around it because it has a really
nice look to the necklace, and then it also just creates
a firmer hold for the twig. Sometimes glue
detaches a little bit, but if you've embroidered it, it's really going
to stay on there. So we're going to embroide
both ends of this twig, and that way it'll make
sure that it really stays. Oh Okay. Now we want to tie off the back, and I just simply make one or 2 knots on the
back of the fabric, and that way, all of our
embroidery will be secure. For a more interesting look, what I like to do is
take a lighter shade of brown and also embroider
around the twig. It just looks better and adds a little bit more interest and just makes it look
more like a rope. Oh.
8. StitchesforHangingPots: So now we want to do
the exact same thing we did for the twig with the ends, but we're going to do this for the flower pots
that are hanging. So the same kind of
stitch, same everything, just placing the embroidery where the flower
pots would hang. And then we want to also
embroide the hanging portion, I guess you could
call it the string so that it looks like the
pots are actually hanging from the spot where we have the embroidery
floss around the twig. Oh. Then we want to tie
off the back with a couple of knots just to
secure all of our hard work. And this step is complete. What I like to do is
take a lighter shade of brown and also
embroider around the. It just looks better and as a little bit more interest and just makes it look
more like a rope. O
9. StitchingPot: So to begin, we're
going to sat and stitch the flower
pot itself, which, if you aren't sure how
to sat and stitch, you can go back and
watch my video that shows you how to
do satin stitches, and we're just going to
fill in this entire square. Now, you'll notice, I
didn't stitch all the way over to the far
right line of the box. And I did this intentionally
to show you that sometimes, you know, you just don't
quite get it perfect, and that's okay because you can always go back and just fill it in as I'm going to show you. It's not a big deal. You're only working with three strands of f. So to fill it
in is really easy, but don't feel like
you have to get every single stitch
absolutely perfect. Try to get it as
close as you can, and then you can always just
fill in the gaps later. For the stripes on the pot, what we're going to do is
take the flaws and use it to measure where we
want the stripes to be. It can actually be our ruler and help us line them
up because that is one thing you do want
the stripes to be straight unless you're
doing a zigzag pattern, but in this case, I do
want them straight. I just use the flaws to
help measure so that way I make sure that the
stripes look really good.
10. AddingGreenery: So in adding the greenery, what we want to do is create a whole bunch of French knots, and you can do big
knots, little knots. The more variety,
the better it will look because it'll look
like actual greenery. So you're going to see here, I'm just going to
make a whole bunch of French knots and pile them
all into each other and just make it look
really nice and full and snuggle the
knots into each other. So the best way to do that is when you create
your first knot, Don't make your second knot
right next to the first. You can see I made some space there between the
2 knots and then make another not on the other side so that you're not putting them
right next to each other. Otherwise, you run the
risk of going back through the same hole that you
just came out of with the previous knot and
pulling out your first knot. If you just go back and forth on the pot and
slowly fill it in, one, it's easier because
you won't undo your knots. Two, it'll look better because you can step back, look at it, see where the placement
of a not would look natural and not rigid
in a hard line.
11. FlowerStemsandTops: For the flower stems, what I like to do is take the floss and kind of gauge
roughly where I want my stems to be and then
start embroidering. So it's just for this case, it's just three simple
straight stitches. And again, you can decide how many or how few flower stems that you want
to put in your pot. For the flower tops, what I
like to do is just create some French knots because they look just like
little flower buds. If you want big flowers, put in a couple of knots, if you want small
flowers, just put in one. The choice again is up to you because this
is your pendant. O Oh
12. StitchingAroundFabric: Before we stitch the
perimeter of the fabric, if you're using a
magnetic needle minder, it's a good idea to take it off because it just gets in
the way at this stage. What we're going to do is using the guide that we've already
drawn on the fabric. We're going to come in from the back of the fabric
and pull the floss, but not all the way through. We don't have a knot
on this thread, so we want to just hold
it with our finger and leave a piece
hanging in the back because we're going to
use that in a later step. And then using our
marker on the front, we're going to go back
down through the fabric. And then again, making sure
we still have that piece of floss hanging from the back and then come up at
the next marker. And we're just going to
repeat this process until we go all the way around the
perimeter of the fabric.
13. GluingFabrictoWoodenCircle: So now we're going to glue our embroidery to the
wooden circle blank. And to do that, what
we're going to do is take this little wooden circle. That's going to be the
back. And then we're going to just place it on
the back of the fabric. And then using the extra floss that we had from
our previous step, we're going to pull that And we don't want it
to be too tight, but just to sort of give us an indication of our alignment, because right now our
goal is to get this aligned so that once we glue it, it's nicely centered
on our circle. So having those threads there that you can just
pull just makes it a little bit easier to get
everything centered and to visualize where it's going to
sit when we start to glue. Now, I hold it with two or three fingers, gently, of course, where the twig is, and keep those fingers
there. Do not move them. No matter what, don't move
them because otherwise, then your fabric's
going to move. So I'm just going to
add some glue here, like you see to the back
of this wooden circle. Again, you'll notice my fingers aren't moving, my
thumb isn't moving. I just tilted it around
to get the glue in there, but keep your fingers in place. So using my bone folder, I'm going to start
pressing the fabric down. You can use your
finger if you want. I tried that in the beginning when I first started
making these, and you end up just
with so much glue all over your hand,
it's terrible. So I really only use my
fingernail just to try to get the creases out because
we don't want any creases, because they will show on
the edge of the fabric. And it just looks
unprofessional. So any glue you get when you're trying to get
out those creases, just make sure that you wipe
it off before you continue. You don't want any
glue on your fingers. So just keep wiping it off
if you get knee on there and try to use whatever
tool that you have, again, I'm using a bone folder. It's actually for book binding, but it works really
great for this. Just make sure that that
stays clean as well, and if you get glue on it, just wipe it off
right away before you continue smoothing
the fabric down. Then check frequently to make sure that your fabric
hasn't shifted. Sometimes that happens. We don't realize
we're not holding the fabric firm enough as we're pulling
around on the back. And if it shifts
and the glue sets, there's really no undo. So it's really important to make sure that everything
centered and if it isn't, now is the time to fix it. Pull it apart and re
glue it if you have to, but don't let the glue set and then decide you're
going to try to fix it, because the glue is
really good glue, and it will hold it in place, and I haven't found a great way to undo it if you
get that wrong. You can see I'm
just going a the, using my bone folder and trying to get everything as
smooth as possible, getting rid of any little folds and creases that would
show on the edge, and then flattening it
as flat as I can get it on the back with the fabric because we don't want any bulk, or when we go to the next step, it's going to look
less professional. Oh.
14. GlueBackon: So before our pendant has actually dried is the
best time to do this. I'm just going to take the glue, and I'm going to go
around the edge. But you can see it's just
a little bit of glue, and I'm not going all the way to the edge because it is going
to squeeze out a little bit, and we don't really want it to squeeze out past the fabric. If it does, I'm going to
show you how to fix that. But we don't want great gobs of glue coming out
of this thing. So just a little bit
and then also gluing the inside center at this point. And then we'll take this wooden circle blank just like the one we
mounted the fabric to, and we're going to line it up. And once we've got it lined up, then we want to squeeze. Make sure you're not
squeezing on the twig. Twigs are pretty tough, but you've worked this
hard and come this far, it would be a shame if it broke. So we just try to treat
the twig carefully. And then any little
globs of glue, you can see there
was a couple there. I'm wiping them off and just making sure that none
of that sticks out.
15. JewelryBail: To glue the jewelry
bale to the back, I'm just using e 6,000 glue, and you can see it's
not a whole lot of glue because a little of
this stuff goes a long way. And then taking the pendant. I'm just visually lining it up before I
actually stick it. And then when I attach it, I'm not actually pushing
really hard yet. I'm just sort of getting
the alignment to make sure that it's centered
and it looks really good. And then once I'm happy with it, then I can push down. And then always every
time you push down, check the front,
make sure it hasn't shifted, and it's not crooked. And if there's a little glue on the back like you see here, you can just clean it
up with toothpicks. And that way, it just looks
a little more professional. And that is looking pretty good. Again, checking my alignment
before I let this dry. Oh.
Tonya McLeroy, Illustrator, Animator, Embroidery Artist
