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1. Introduction: How, everybody, and welcome to this little embroidery class. We are going to create a really beautiful
embroidery design that you can embroider on hats or T shirts or jackets or jeans. This technique will teach
you what you need to know and then you can do to get it again on different materials. It's a lot of fun. So just
to quickly introduce myself. My name is Alina, and I have a creative business called Creative Field Design. I mainly focus on modern
calligraphy teaching and business coaching, but I also do lots of about creative
tutorials and classes, and embroidery is really close to my heart because it's
such a beautiful skill to learn and I convey
to share lots of tips for you just to make
the process easier for you. If you've never done it before, this is really
beginner friendly, and I'm sure you're
going to enjoy it. Get your tools ready
and let's begin.
2. Mapping Out Your Design: Before we start doing
any embroideery at all, we want to plan out our design. Please don't worry if you've
never done this before, we're going to do some
really simplistic knots and this is super bgin friendly. I just so I put it out there. Everything I remember
about embroideery is from my childhood,
a bit from school. I'm definitely not
an embroidery pro, but I do love embellishing my and my daughter's clothing sometimes with some really
simplistic floral detail. I can look so good like
on jeans or if you have a plain T shirt
also on this bucket hat. I've always wanted to
have a bucket hat. I think it will look really
really nice embroidered, like really nice for
summer, especially. So you'll need a pencil. It's nice to have
a sharp pencil, min isn't that sharp, but I think I'll make it work. So you want to think
about the positioning. So we're going to
do some flowers. So it might be actually
best to fold it, so it all becomes
like one piece, and just maybe fold
it again this way, so you get this area
a bit more flat, so we just want
everything to be a bit more flat when we do this. And obviously when
you put this on, you will see this kind of area quite well,
so all of this. You can also put it
on just right out and see where you want
your flowers to be. But I think
opposition mine here. We're just going to do a really simplistic little like
floral arrangement, and we're going to start with
this little flower where we're just going to do a
little line in pencil. I'm starting mine
on the side here. Then I'm going to leave
a bit of space in the middle, do another line. It's a leave a little gap, and then imagine that
we're doing like petals. There will be two here,
and then also to them. That could be one
little flower we do. Now, this flower can also have a little leaf
coming out of it. I'm not drawing any big details. These are definitely
quite small. I just want you to notice that. And that's fine. I think it would just be a
nice little cute detail. I might do another
leaf here this way. Now, we could do another
flower in a similar style, maybe high p. So just
doing the same thing. No. I might actually do
a little circle here, and this could be like another. We could do two
types of flowers. This could be another
type here at the bottom. Maybe you could have some
leaves coming out of this one. I love doing clusters of leaves. I'm definitely just
doing two at a time. Maybe you could do another
little circle here. And maybe one last flower here. It's really up to you
how you arrange this. Just remember that. This
is just for guidance. Yours can be different. And I might do some leaves
coming out of this. This is going to be like
a little rose flower. Maybe I'll do some
leaves coming out of here and just see right
blending more leaves. Maybe here at the top. There could be a little
leaf going that way. Maybe some leaves. Stretching this way. I think this looks quite nice. We can always add something
more like at the end if you feel like there needs
to be something else. Yeah, this is, I think, a really good starting point. Now, once you've done
your sketch, we've done. We have two different
types of flowers, roses, and let's say, and we
have some leaves as well. We can always adding more. And Let's start the
actual embroidery part. We are going to start with
these little daisy flowers. Pick a nice color.
I think I'll go for this li like peachy color. It looks really nice. You notice your tread is square thick. The consists of several strands. So try your best to
roll it a little bit, and you can even vet it. Grandma always used to do it. She would put it in her
mouth and just be vet it. You don't have to
put in your mouth, but you can get a bit
of water on them. Then try your best
to tread it through. I know it's a bit challenging, depending on how
well you cut it. You can also trim
a little bit off, so it's a bit sharper. But, try your best. I know you can get those
special things to help you tread. This through. Perhaps you have one. I don't. I'm just going to take a bit
of time getting it through. I'm so horrible with this,
and I should be wearing my glasses really, but I'm not. Did I do it? Yeah.
If I can do it, guys, you can definitely do it. Now, I'm going to start. So we're going to
have to t threads. I'm just going to
double them like this. I would say, make
it fairly long. It doesn't have
to be super long, but perhaps you'll want to do more than one flower in this color. I'm
going to cut it off. You can always redo it and add add more
tread if you like. Mine is this long, like the length of
the actual hat. Now, again, this is something
my grandma thought. Maybe we're going to tie a knot, and maybe you have your own way of tying a knot
when you embroider. I do mine like this. I take the end and I wrap
it around my finger. Now I'm just going to just
making a knot really. I'm going to pop this
little thin strand through. Once it's like ready
to ready to tighten. I'm going to take
the whole thing, just like roll it in my fingers, to create like a little ball. This is what my grandma
thought me on honestly, it works really
well, and I think it's easier than
other techniques. I'm just like rolling it,
creating like a little ball and now I'm just going to
pull it to tighten it. You can use a bit of a
nail as well to do that. I just creates this huge knot, which is nice because
it's quite chunky, it's definitely not
going to go through. Even if it unravels, they're still like
the original knot. Yeah, you can do that, or
you can just tie 2 knots, simple knots on
top of each other. It's nice and secure. Yeah, it's really up to you,
but I think this works. Okay. The first flower
we're going to do is actually called Lazy Daisy. You have two strands now and we're only going to
be working with one. The one that has a knot on it, just make it nice and
long and this free one, this one that doesn't
have any knots. I'll always travel with you. It can be quite short, so I'm going to keep
mine like this. Lovely. A lazy daisy, it's a really fun technique.
3. Embroidering Petals: Let's start with this top petal, and I'm going under now, so I'm going to go under
and try to go through with my needle right here where
my pencil line starts, where my pencil petal starts. You want to go through
with your needle. Bring the string back up. Now pull start pulling and you'll see that as soon
aly hits the knot, it stops, so we have the
knot on the other side. We pull the tread through. Now we're going to go back in, just next to it. Just next to it to the left
or to the right is up to you, whatever makes more sense. I'm going. Again, now I'm
catching it at the back, catching the needle at the back. Pulling it through, but we're going to tighten it all the way. So as soon as it starts to
create a nice little loop, we're just going
to let it do it. And now we're just
going to come back from the back back to the front. So now we are going
to find the top. Might take a bit of poking. The top of this line, which is kind of like a petal, and we're going to go
through this loop. So you can position your loop. This was your needle
definitely goes through it. And now, because you come out and you
start to tighten it. Don't try to tighten it
too hard, by the way. It does want to be a bit loose. There we go. So we've created our fast petal super
simplistic in a way. Now, we're just going
to secure it by going back inside,
on the other side. So now I'm just going to put my needle above the pet
tool and go back in. Go back in, pull it through. There we go, and we're just going to do the same
thing to all of them. So starting with the next
petal here on the left. Starting from the back, coming out here, pulling the thread. The little tread is
still traveling with me. So I'm just holding
it with my finger. So going in again next to it and it's going to form As you pull, it's going to Again, the
little treads coming with you, so yeah, be careful
not to lose it. Sometimes you can escape. Now it starts to form a loop, which is good, so we're going to just tighten it slightly. Before we go back
with our needle. We find the top. Where is it? There we go, the top
of this initial petal. But remember as we come
out with our needle, we want to go through this loop. There we go and really
gently help if you need to help yourself to kind
of pull the needle, if it's quite long, that's fine. I'm just going to secure
it by going back in. Be careful, obviously,
working with the needle. It's quite hard if you can't
see like on the other side. So Just be quite cautious. There we go. The
second one is done. Now, I'm just going to
do that the other four. And I'm just going
to do a process, you can follow me
along or perhaps you managed to understand this not and you can just
do it at your own pace. Again, come through. Now going back in. This
is going to form a loop. There we go, just
tightening slightly. Now I'm going to leave it there. Now, the needle
goes under the hat, trying to find the top of
this petal. There we go. Go through the loop, using our fingers to
gently tighten it. You might want to pull
it in a direction that petal is facing,
so it this way. Now I'm going to secure
it by going back in just above it. There we go. And we have three more left. So I zoom out for this one, you can see what
my hand is doing. So starting from the center. Okay. So going back
in next to it. This is starting to form a
little loop. There we go. Got to position the loop. There. Now go under the hat with the needle and find
the top of the petal. Make sure I go through the loop. There you go. Lovely, and just
securing it going above. See, I just make sure that
you don't pull too tight. It definitely wants to
be a bit fluffy look in. There's no need to pull really hard to tighten it really hard. I'm going to do this one now, going in to the center. Coming out and then going
back in next to it. Next to it. And then the
needle is now behind. This is now forming the loop. Now I'm going to
leave the loop there. Then find the top. Find the top of this
pt. Here we go. Oh. And secure by going back in above the outs
side of the petal. There we go. Lovely.
And one more to go so, starting from the center. Going back in right next to it. We're not tightening all the
way right straight away. We are leaving this little
petal. A little loop. Now I'm going behind the hat, trying to now find the
top of the pencil line. Here it is, making sure I go through the loop with my needle, tightening it gently,
pulling to the side, and securing by going
above and back in. Lovely. Now we just
need to center, but all the petals are done, and I think it looks pretty. To secure it, you want to have
a look in your other side, and you can just go under, let's say this little thread. Now, again it starts
to form a little loop, and you can just go
through this loop. With your needle. Pull. I'll do this again, so going under. You can also go through you can also do it
under some other one. G undo. Once it's
starting to tighten, just go through the loop with your needle,
tighten it again. You can do this a few times
to create a double knot. Or you can also just tie a knot. The idea is basically
doesn't escape and you can maybe
wash the hat as well. Once that's done, you
can just cut it off. There we go. Okay. Love ly, so that's our fast,
little lazy daisy. And, you know, there's two more. I'll just let you do it. I might choose a different
color for mine as well. So do yours, and then we'll come back and do the center together. So then I've done
the second one, and I think I realize that
I want to have more petals, so I might actually do some extra ones for
this last flower. Okay. So again, I'm just
doing the same thing. I'm going to put some
tread tough my needle. Definitely want to go quite slowly when
you do embroidery. Trying to rush is definitely
quite a therapeutic process. And the softer and
nicer and, you know, gentler you are when
you tighten everything, as you and, you know, try not to go too quickly
because the slower you go, the it'll look, the smoother you'll fold into place, okay? So that's something to remember.
4. Colonial Knot: Well, done, everybody. Now we're going to pick up
some yellow tread. Something yellow or brown, whatever color you have. This is going to be for the
middle middle of the flower. I can be orange as well. Even black to be honest, that might look nice, if
you think of daisies. Yeah, begin to. Get
this yellow tread true. There we go. Okay. So the same thing, we're
going to try and knot. Also, if something else wrong, or you know, you
get a bit tangled, or you need to undo
something or just you know, cut it and start again, just do try again, because if something else wrong, doesn't mean that
you can't do it. It just means that you probably just need to
try more than once. And I'm sure it's going
to look beautiful, so it's definitely
worth the effort. Okay. For the middle
of the flower, we're going to do
something that's called a colonial colonial not, or you can like the French knot. There's also something
that's called the French knot, and
it's really similar. But for this colonial
not, it's a bit tricky. This is the hardest
one we'll do today, and I'm going to
show it a few times. We're going to go on the fast. I'm going under the hat with a needle and then just coming through some where
the inner circle is. There we go. Now we get our
tread. So you got stuck. Okay, so this is
our working tread. My little tread is still here. I'm just going to make it
really short and there we go. This tread is quite long. It's quite important for
it to be long for this. Okay, the first thing
we're going to do is form an inverted C shape
out of this yellow tread. As I said, it's nice to
have quite a lot of it. You get a nice inverted C shape. You just take your long tread. The short one is still here, that's not the one I use. The shorter one is
still in my hand. It's stucked in here. This is the long thread
I'm working with. Inverted C shape. Now, we go to position
our needle like this, and then we're
going to go under. Under this C shape. Now, I'm going to
reposition my needle. I'm going to put it in
this horizontal shape. I'm going to take
this long tread, so the rest of it basically. Um Now I'm going to
take this long tread, which is connected here, so I'm just taking it this way. We're going to wrap it around
once, wrapping it around. I forms like number eight here. Now we've wrapped it around, and we're going to tighten it. Now is what happens. Now is what happens
when you start tightening it. You can see it. You can see that as a knot. Now we're going to go
back in to the hat, but somewhere else, and
not the same point. We came tro but just next to it. Okay, so I'm still tightening
this little string. So we're going to go
in really slowly. As we go in, I'm
just going to keep pulling this string as well, so it keeps tightening
to be hard to do. Now we're going to really
slowly go through. The hat and just slowly tighten so you can see the shorter string is
going through as well, and this long art that
formed the C shape is just following and creating this
beautiful little knot. We're going to try it out again. So I'm now behind the hat, so we're going to come back. Also, kind of like somewhere maybe where there's like
more space, so maybe here. So the idea is like
to fill in the circle with a lot of these little knot. So now I'm coming out again. There we go, the
needle comes through. So My short string is
still next to me here. There we go. I'm just
to hold it in my hand. And we also get this long.
I'm going to zoom out. And we get this longer
longer string here. Now, remember, we're
going to create an inverted s shape,
the best we can. There we go. Inverted s shape. We're going to take our needle. To see shape there we
go. Take our needle, the rest of the string
is on the left here. Take the needle, pop it under. Now I'm going to position
the needle horizontally. I'm going to take this
thread with my left hand, wrap it around once. And tighten it and move
your needle down or up. You can move it down or up and you'll see that as
you tighten it, it creates this little knot. Now, we just need to go back in somewhere in
the center again. Not where you came through, you want to go next to
it like further away. As you go through,
you want to gently tighten it with
your left hand and then pull that needle
through at the same time. Slowly. So there it goes. And now we're going to
finish the very slowly. Let it fall into
place. There we go. So we're going to do it
that a couple more times just to fill in these gaps.
5. Continuing with Florals: If you found this stitch
really challenging, I want to show you another
option that you could try. For this flower
here on the inside, I'm going to do
something different, something that's called
the satin stitch, which is much easier. If you're really struggling with this knot, I don't blame you. It's quite a tricky one,
but I thought I'd show it. It took me a few tries as well
to remember how to do it. But once you do it once,
you'll just click. So If you need to try more
than once, just not as normal. But also, if if you can't do it, and it just feels
really difficult, you can try this satin stitch. So I've got some brown
brown tread for this. So we are going to fill
in this little middle, so this circle of the flower. So I'm going to salt
the right side, so I'm going to come
through from the back. At the bottom part.
So the right edge. Then we're going to go up. The area we want to cover
is what we're focusing on. From bottom of it
to the top of it, we're going to try and cover
it all. I've done one. Now I'm going to go back down very close to the first one. Again, just to cover
this circle perfectly. We like imagine we're doing
like lines. There we go. Now again, going up. I'm just continuing
this, going back in, and then when you come
out, you just want to do the next line. So very close to this
one. There we go. This way, we are just going to keep going until we
fill in this circle. This will look nice as well. It will definitely
fill in the center. Go back again at the bottom, close to where We did
the previous one. Because the air is so small, it'll be quite quick to fill. It definitely has less
texture, which is fine. It still looks really nice. Yeah, I thought I'd show
that in case you struggle with the colonial note. If you do just know
that it's quite normal, it's quite a tricky one. I'm just going to do this and
then secure it at the back. There we go. So that
looks nice, I think, and we're going to secure it by doing well not
as I showed before. It does get quite
messy at the back. Mine's always looking
really messy, and we can always cut any
loose unnecessary str of. There we go. Now, we just
need to do the roses.
6. Rose Design: We're going to start
from the top here, we're going to go through at the top of the
circle like number 12. Then we're going
to pull through. Then we're going to
go inside the middle, wherever the center is. Right in the middle of
your circle. There we go. Then we're going to do 2:00, roughly just come back to
where the 2:00 is like this. Then back to the center. Putting the needle
through nice and slow. Now let's do 4:00. So you're behind now, so
you're under the hat. Now we're going to come back
and do 4:00, which is here. There we go. And
then back to center. So we kind of go just like
back to the same spot really. Just make sure you don't
get tangled there. Okay. Now let's do
like six or seven, like slightly at the
slant, I would say, seven to be honest. Okay. There we go back to center. Let's do like one here in the middle of more
like ten, ten, I'd say. Here we go. And back to Center. We get this starfish
starfish ships. We have five little petals. Now I'm going to come back
right next to the center here. We're going to start doing
this like a weaving pattern. I'm going to go over this one. Under the number
121, right here. And just pull the string. We're going to go over this one, but under Under this
one at the bottom. It can be a bit trickier
than the needle. So I would actually use my
other hand to go under. They're kind of like
lifting the string and then just pulling
the tread through. So this one to be
like super loose. Try not to go to try not
to tighten it too hard. So now we're going to
go under this one. So leaving this one, we're going to over this one under this one. So we're kind of
like alternating over this one under this one. Now, we're going to go over
this one and under this one. Okay. Because we
have five petals, so we are kind of like naturally alternating, which is nice. And just keep going and it
will start to form like a beautiful rose detail. You can also like rotate your
hat actually to help you. Access that little bottom part. And you can see that it
starts to form the shape, which is so beautiful and
surprisingly effective. It does look really good. So we have two roses here. So maybe you didn't draw
like a perfect circle, which, you know, is quite
normal. I don't think I did. So you'll see that
maybe doesn't match your pencil line as you start to approach like the
outer side of the flower. So see if you'll need to do some petals just to fill in
basically the bottom part, which, you know, is fine. And you want to go like
super lose towards the end. So I'm not even like
tightening it properly. It can definitely be quite so you can see I'm
leaving this quite lose, like, barely tightening it. And this is it, so basically, these are all of the flowers, and all that's left now
is to do another flower and and the leaf
and do the leaves. So I'll show you the
leaves in a minute. You can flatten it out of
your fingers a bit more. But yes, I'm really
happy with this one, so I'm just going
to leave it there, and I'm just going
to go inside on the other side and
just secure it. We're just going to do
a regular little knot as we normally do. Let's do it twice. We'll
just tire knot manually. I'm going to cut this off. I'm going to do
the same thing to another to another flower here.
7. Adding Leaves: And the last embroidery knot we're going to learn
is this leafy one. It's actually
called a fish bone. I'm going to grab some green
and prepare my needle. We have quite a few leaves here, but are quite small, depending
on how many you have. If you need to add anymore, I'm going to start with
this little leaf here. We're going to start
from the top here, we're parking the
needles through the top of the
leaf. There we go. And then we're going to
go down a little bit, not too much, but just yet, like a little line down. And then come back
very close to the tip. Wherever the tip starts
to go to the side. So the outline starts
to go to the side. We're literally
just coming really, really close to that point. And we're going to do
so we're going to come through Then we're going
to go onto the other side, right next to this
fast line again, so just like to show the tip. This is where we're going to
form a little loop again. We are forming the loop, just leave it as it
is for a second. Because we're behind now, so
we're going to go back to the front like really
close to this line. This is the point
we come and we come out through the loop so
really gently tighten it. And you'll create
this little shape. Now we're going to
secure it by just going back like right right
beneath it. Okay? So it's quite similar to this daisy shape we
did. There we go. And we're going to do the
same thing again back up back to the front through
the side, so one side. Tighten it. Let's
go to another side. Remember if we're
going to leave. We're going to leave
the loop here. There we go. This is our loop, and I'm going to come
back we finished, here, where we tightened it. So coming back, there we go. And gently tightening it. There we go, going
in underneath. Me just repeating this pattern. So one side again.
Stay to another side. We're going to form
a little loop. We're going to form a loop, and we're going to go back
to the front from behind, and we're going to come
through in the center right below where
we secured it here. And then really gently, slowly, watch it tighten and
it starts to form. This really beautiful
little pattern, don't forget to secure
it again at the bottom, and we're just going
to carry on like this. Okay, back to the side. On side. Other side. Forming a loop, coming back up, tightening, securing it below. You want to go higher. You go to the side,
it wants to be a bit higher than where
you've finished. So mine has leveled out a bit. I definitely wants
to be higher up. There we go. And now might actually go a little bit lower, so it does look a
bit more effective. Remember, the loop. I'm going to secure
it a bit lower again. Back in securing it. And keep going like this until you fill in your
whole leaf shape. Again, going back to the side, a little bit higher
up to where we finished and secured
this little spot, definitely a bit higher. It looks like those veins, you seeside of the leaf, go up. Try to think of that. Now this coming out here a
little bit lower, going through the loop,
gently tightening it. Bit of yellow that
has come up for me. I need to get rid of
that. There you go. I think that's enough
for my fast leave. If you have enough string,
you can just carry on. Now going down,
little line down. Now doing the right side. Left side.'s forming a loop, going back to very close to where we did
this little line, going through the loop, and and securing it. Now I'm going to go back
in just to secure it. That's what we're
doing, essentially, so you want to do that
to all of your leaves, straight over to the right side, forming a loop and
then going here, coming out at this point, and then going
through this loop, tightening it really
gently and securing it, so going back, so we're
securing it again. Okay? This one's looking
a bit better for me. So it takes a bit of
a warm up, I think, for sure, so securing this
one and starting a new set. So the left side, right side, allowing
for the loop to form. Now going back in from the
back and to the front, and we're going
through this loop. Securing it, Securing
this one here, so going back in,
right underneath, back to the left. Right. Square therapeutic
actually once you get into it. Nice loop. B where we came
from the There we go. Carry on like this for
all of your leaves, and that will be the end result. That's the end result. I
think it looks so pretty. Well, then everybody
at the back, you might notice, it
looks like a jungle here. We might just want to trim. So the end. Obviously don't
trim where you made the kn. But in general,
you can tidy up a little bit and if
you want to wash it, just put it on a gentle cycle. Obviously when you do wash it, the pencil lines will
come off as well. Or you can always like spread
a bit of water to them, just to get them off. Yeah, it's up to
you really. I don't really see mine that much. But there we go, I'm
really happy with this and I hope
you enjoyed this. I think this is
such a fun project. Perhaps you'll be
trying this again. I think you've got
enough embroidery floss for experimenting a little bit more and all the knowledge you need to create more pieces like this. I hope you enjoy this guys. Please share your version of
this in the Facebook group, and thank you so much
for doing this with me.
8. Well done!: Thank you so much for
taking this class. I really hope you enjoyed it. I would really love to
see which you've created. So please post a
photo. Drop a comment. Any feedback is really
valuable for me, so I would really love to see. And I hope you continue creating lots and lots of
other embroidery projects. Just have fun with it. It's
such a wonderful thing to do. I really hope you
found it relaxing. Take get everybody and
I have to see soon.
Alina Snepste
