Personalize some clothes with your own embroidery!

You’ll want to start by finding a piece of clothing you want to embroider. Danielle recommends something cotton, thick enough that you don’t see your stitching through the fabric, and with little to no stretch.

Next, pick your design. Danille has created some great designs for clothes with the light tones, mid tones, and dark tones already laid out that you can find in the resources section. You’re also welcome to use your own design! Just have it ready on your phone or iPad, or print it out to get started.

Finally, gather all your materials and get to stitching! In the class, Danielle will walk you through the basics of transferring your design onto clothing, special considerations for embroidering on clothes, and some nifty stitching tricks, but in order to fit everything into our Live session, Danielle had to work pretty quickly through some of the steps. If you’re feeling lost, head to her Modern Embroidery for Beginners class for a deeper dive into all the basic skills you’ll need.

Finally, make sure to share your creation in the project gallery so we can all wow over your work!

Materials

Item of clothing for embroidering onto (ideally something cotton with no stretch)
Image you want to embroider (feel free to use one of your own or grab the flower, palm tree, skull, snail, or strawberry Danielle has created)
Embroidery flosses (Danielle loves the ones from DMC)
Embroidery hoop
Embroidery needles
Tracing paper
Carbon paper or another type of transfer paper
Pencil or ballpoint pen
Scissors

Resources

Connect with Danielle on Instagram and on her website.
Check out Danielle’s Skillshare profile for her other class and future updates!
Get started with some of Danielle's favorite threads HERE and receive 15% off using the code “SKILL15" at checkout*
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