Transcripts
1. 01 Introduction Tulip: Hi everyone, my name is
Jungmin and welcome to my tulip cross-stitch
embroidery class. In this class, we will learn about the materials
that are involved in cross stitch embroidery,
embroidering our design, how to knot a thread, how to start an embroidery and how to close an embroidery.
2. 02 Materials Tulip: To get started, we'll
meet a couple of things. First, we'll need needles. My embroidery needles are from a nearby arts
and crafts store. As for the needle cushion
that I made it with some leftover fabric
and some cotton. Next, we'll need some fabric. I'm using unbleached
cotton muslin fabric. Most fabric stores will
carry it and you can use other leftover fabric
you may already have. Then, we have our
embroidery hoop. For this video, I'm using a six-inch bamboo
embroidery hoop. For the design template. I'm using a water-soluble
fabric stabilizer that you can print
your design onto. I will be including a PDF of
design for your reference and a link to the fabric stabilizer
that I'm using as well. With the water-soluble
stabilizer, you just have to run the
embroidery under water, to dissolve the stabilizer. We'll see what it
looks like before and after later in the course. Another important thing
that we need is the threat. I have embroidery bobbin and a container to
organize my thread. Usually I'll take a skein
of embroidery thread and wind it onto one of
the bobbins like this. There's also different
kinds of bobbins. We'll need a pair of scissors or a thread remover
to cut the thread. Here's a list of
all the materials that we'll need for this video.
3. 03 Preparing your Workspace Tulip: With the fabric, you want
to make sure that you have approximately an eight
by eight inch square. Since the embroidery hoop
is six inches in diameter, it's generally safe
to have around an inch or more
surrounding the hoop so that we're able to securely close the hoop once we're
done the embroidery, unscrew the metal portion
at the top of the hoop. And there should be two
parts to the hoop like this, an inner hoop
and an outer hoop. Take the inner hoop and then
place the fabric on top. Then place the outer hoop on
top to secure the fabric. It should look
something like this. You want to tighten the screw of the metal portion at the
top of the hoop and pull the fabric away from the
hoop to make sure you have a flat and tight
fabric workspace. With the water-soluble
fabric stabilizer, we can print out our design
and cut out the pattern, and peel the back for the sticker part and stick
it onto the fabric. For the design, I thought it would
be easier for all of us to have those grid lines in place to be able to follow along more precisely when we're doing
our cross stitch. After the fabric workspace
with our design is ready. I like to try out different
colors for my embroidery, just to visualize
what the end product would look like by
placing the thread on top of the embroidery or
picking out different colors. For this embroidery, I chose
pink and green, pink tulips. But feel free to change the flower
to your favorite color.
4. 04 How to knot a thread Tulip: Take the color that you've
chosen for your design. Take approximately 20 inches
from your embroidery thread. Embroidery thread usually has six individual thread
strands intertwined. I like to separate
out two so that my embroidery will
have thinner lines. Each additional thread
out of the six that you include the embroidery will
make the lines thicker. I think for this embroidery, it would look good with
three strands as well. So feel free to try that out. For this embroidery, I'll be using two threads. Thread your needle
with the two threads, and make a knot in the thread. I make the knot by
taking the end piece of the thread on my index
finger like this. And putting the needle
perpendicular to the thread. Then wrap the thread
around the needle around four to five times and
pull the needle out.
5. 05 Starting your embroidery Tulip: For this embroidery we'll
be using the cross stitch. Like it is in the
name we were making, a X-like cross in the squares
that we want to fill in. Make sure that your knot
is behind the front of the embroidery and
that the needle is coming from back to front. Then pick a spot that is on the opposite corner of
where your thread is. Take your needle
front-to-back to make that diagonal line
across the square. Now, your needle should be in the backside of the embroidery. Pick a spot that is on the
opposite corner of where your thread is and take
your needle back to front. Then pick a spot that is on an opposite corner
where your thread is, and take your needle
front-to-back to make that second diagonal
line across the square. To find the right
place to embroider, I poke the needle around until I find the spot that I
would like to start from. Once you've found that spot
that you want to start from, then pull the needle
all the way through. Let's keep practicing. As we near the end
of our first thread, we have to close off the thread. So that the work that we've
done doesn't come undone. I tried to close
off the embroidery by looping the needle and the remaining thread through any of the thread in the
back with embroidery, if you can create a knot in the
back that works as well. Cut off any remaining thread from
the know, and we can start our next thread.
6. 06 Embroidering your design Stem Tulip: Thread your needle
with a two threads. Make a knot in the thread. I make a knot by taking
the end piece of the thread on my index finger and putting the needle perpendicular
to the thread. Then wrap the thread
around the needle around four to five times and
pull the needle out. As we near the end
of our thread, we have to close
off the thread so that the work that we've done
doesn't come undone. I try to close
off the embroidery by looping the needle and the remaining thread through any of the thread and
the back of the embroidery. If you can create a knot in
the back that works as well. Cut off any remaining
thread from the knot. And we can start our
next thread. As we near the end of our thread, we have to close off
the thread so that the work that we've done
doesn't come undone. I try to close
off the embroidery by looping the needle and the remaining thread through any of the thread in the
back of your embroidery. If you can create a knot, in the back, that works as well. Cut off any remaining
thread from the knot. And we can start
our next thread.
7. 07 Embroidering your design Flower Tulip: Using our second
color for the flower, I chose a pink color. I'm going to take around
20 inches of thread. We can always take
more if needed. We can repeat the
process of grabbing the number of threads we
want from the sixth threads. I'm going to take
two strands again. We should start off
the new thread with a knot and from the back of the
embroidery like we did before. Let's thread our needle and make the knot at the
end of the thread. Since we'll be continuing the design with
the cross stitch. Make sure that
your knot as behind the front of the embroidery and that the needle is coming
from the back to front. Then pick a spot that is on an opposite corner
of where your thread is and take your needle front-to-back to make that diagonal
line across the square. Now your needle should be on the backside of the embroidery. Pick a spot that is on
an opposite corner of where your thread is and take
your needle back to front. Your spot should
be going through corner that you haven't
gone through yet. Then pick a spot that is on an opposite corner where your thread is and
take your needle front-to-back to make that second diagonal
line across the square. To find the right
place to embroider. I poke needle around until I find a spot that I would
like to start from. And once you've found the spot that you want
to start from them, pull the needle all
the way through. We can also do multiple
squares at the same time. Just make sure
that you're making the X-like cross in the
front of the embroidery. And you can really
freestyle on what square or corner you
want to work on first. As we near the end
of our first thread, we have to close
off the thread so that the work that we've
done doesn't come undone. I try to close off the
embroidery by looping the needle and remaining thread through any of the
thread in the back of the embroidery, and if you can create a knot in the back
that works as well. As we near the end
of our thread, we have to close off
the thread so that the work that we've
done doesn't come undone. I try to close off
the embroidery by looping the needle and remaining thread through any
of the thread in the back of embroidery. And if you can create a
knot in the back, that works as well. So, cut off any remaining
thread from the knot and we've finished our tulip design
8. 08 Removing the water soluble stabilizer Tulip: Now that we're done with
the embroidering part, we can remove the water-soluble
stabilizer with water. I'm going to run the
embroidery through water until the
stabilizer comes off. It does work better with
lukewarm water or hot water. This is what it
looks like when it's wet and the material
has come off. So I just need to let it dry. This is what it looks
like when it's dry.
9. 09 Closing the embroidery Tulip: We're almost at the end. All that's left is hiding the remaining fabric
surrounding the hoop. There's different
ways to do this. You can trim the fabric and
then glue it to the rim. You can sew around
the fabric to rouche it into the center of the
back of the embroidery. I chose to trim the fabric, to follow the hoop
of embroidery, leaving around an inch of
fabric around the hoop. Then I sew around the fabric to rouche it in
the center by doing an over and under threading through the fabric while following
the rim of the hoop. I just finished sewing around their embroidery hoop and left about two
centimeters between the thread and the rim so
that I can pull this thread to rouche and scrunch the
fabric into the center. Once the fabric is all
rouched and scrunch, then, then you just want to close off the thread by doing a
couple of knots at the end, then cutoff any remaining
thread that we don't need.
10. 10 Conclusion Tulip: We're done! Through this embroidery class, we learned about the materials
that are involved in cross-stitch embroidery,
embroidering our design, how to knot a thread, how to start an embroidery and how to close an embroidery. Hope you've enjoyed this class and please post your embroideries to the class. I would love
to see them and feel free to reach out to me
with any questions that you may have about
the class as well. Thank you very much
for your time.
Jungmin Lee, Embroidery Artist
