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双面三异绣 shuāng miàn sān yì xiù is a new genre of suzhou double-sided embroidery. It is done on both sides, but the patterns, stitches and colors are different, hence the name 双面三异绣( literally double-sided triple difference embroidery). It enables the viewer to appreciate the image of traditional chinese embroidery art with different patterns, stitches and colors on one embroidery.
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Finishing in a Hoop
Here’s a tutorial for finishing a cross stitch in a hoop. Of course there’s a few different ways, but this is a method I use regularly which can be customized to suit the stitching. I’m hooping ‘Florence the Owl’ and I’ve chosen hot pink felt and bright green ribbon to match her. I’ll stitch the felt backing on with turquoise thread. If your hoop is a bit ropey you could wrap it with ribbon or tape.
As well as your FO and a hoop, you need felt and ribbon, and cardboard of the same colour as your cross stitch fabric. Toy stuffing as well, but it’s not essential.
Firstly, make a circle of felt and a circle of card the same size as the outside edge of the inner hoop. Trace around the hoop in pencil to make a line to cut.
Give your stitching an iron on the reverse side to remove creases and plump up the stitches a little. It helps to be neat like this, especially with evenweave, so that loose thread and trailing ends don’t show though to the front. Trim all the little ends of thread left here and there and press flat with the iron.
Now put your stitching in the hoop. 1 The cardboard circle is going to sit on top of the inner ring and go under the fabric. This does a few things. It will help provide a bright background and so your stitching will look great! The grid holes in the fabric won’t be as noticeable. My stitching here is on evenweave - I’m going to use stuffing inside the hoop and the cardboard will stop it fluffing out the front. And the cardboard will also help protect from accidental impact damage.
2 When you’re happy with the position of the fabric do up the fastener as tight as you can, pulling the fabric flat all around the edges as you do the fastener up a little more each time The gridlines of the fabric should remain straight.
3 Now trim the fabric all around the hoop to make it a circle. It’s easier to round the corners off first, and then trim down from there.
4 Fold the fabric down neatly at the back. Start at the top and make folds the same direction all around. This way your backing fabric will lay nice and flat. Fix the fabric in place with some running stitches made where the creases lay.
5 I did two rows with this one as the evenweave wasn’t laying as flat as I liked. You could trim your fabric more than I did at stage 3 so there’s less to stitch.
6 Poke some toy stuffing under the fabric and push it right up inside all around. This optional extra protection makes the back feel solidly squishy.
7 Now fix the felt circle onto the back by stitching it onto the evenweave fabric. I’ve used a simple blanket stitch. Make straight stitches from the edge inwards, pick up the last stitch and pull it flat. Blanket stitch will give some protection to the edge of the felt and looks lovely. But you could be more creative if you like!
8 This thread is a colour in the pattern. For blanket stitch, use a piece of thread as long as three times the circumference of your hoop. Use all six strands, much easier than separating it! The stitches are about 1cm apart here.
9 Tie the two ends together in a tight knot and tuck that knot into the fabric with the thread in the needle. Trim the ends where they poke out, if you need to.
Finish with a bit of ribbon at the fastener to hang the hoop. Double over one length of ribbon with one twist. Knot it at the end and loop through the fastener with the knot at the back and a flat loop ready for hanging.
(The photos for this one came out a bit rubbish so here’s a similar FO ^^)
Done!
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Current Cross Stitch/Embroidery Tutorial and Pointer Master List
Some tutorials, tips, and pointers I’ve put together this year.
- My Parking Method - Keeping multiple threads ‘in play’ as you stitch. Useful for large patterns with a lot of confetti.
- Recording Your Embroidery - Keep that camera steady so your viewer can follow what you’re doing.
- Sewing the Edges on Hand-Made Patches - Works best with simple shapes, but can be adapted with practise.
- Various Embroidery Mounts - Differences between hoops, scroll frames, Q-snaps, and stretcher bars, with pros and cons for each.
- Using Variegated Floss - Different ways to use variegated or overdyed floss, and what each method looks like on the fabric.
- Creating Your Own Photo Pattern - Tutorial uses PCStitch, but any software or web app works with this method.
- Adding New Floss Colours to PCStitch - New DMC colours will be coming out next month. Here’s how to add them to your colour library!
- Framing Your Embroidery in a Hoop - No glue or tape needed. Keeps your embroidery nice and tight in the hoop for as long as it lives there.
- Marble Dye Method - Hand died fabric made ultra-simple. Just need a bowl and a microwave. And your dye, of course.
- Gridding Fabric with Pens and Floss/Filament - Two methods for gridding your fabric, with pros and cons for each.
- Using Stretcher Bars with your Embroidery - Stretcher bars are weird and scary. Learn how to use them without hurting your embroidery.
- Loop Start Method - Who says you can only do a loop start with two strands? Learn how to do it with three.
- Tent Stitch - Learn what it is, and when you want to use it.
- Railroading and Laying Tools - Keep your stitches looking nice and even, no matter how many strands you’re using.
- Creating Alphabet Charts - Use any font on the internet to create an easily stitchable alphabet chart, in any size you need.
- Repairing Torn Fabric - If you tear your fabric while you’re frogging a section, don’t start over. Fix it.
- Photographing Glow in the Dark Floss - This one gives a lot of people trouble. Learn how to cheat your way through with black lights.
- 1 over 1 vs 1 over 2 - What’s the difference and when to use each.
- Different Fabric Types - Differences between Aida, Evenweave, and Hardanger.
- One-Stranded Loop Start - Yep. One strand. Up that start game by getting rid of knots and tangles.
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Updated the list to include a few more tips and tricks.
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Started this small piece ages ago but I kept working on it literally five stitches at a time mostly because I used glow-in-the-dark floss by mistake for the wings and it is such a rubbish floss!!
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HyeIn Jeon, Carol, hand embroidered on colored linen, 2016.
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It’s been far too long since the Department of Teeny-weeny Wonders last checked in on the exquisite creations by illustrator and self-taught embroiderer Chloe Giordano (previously featured here). Who can resist such beautifully hand-stitched animals that are also the size of a thimble?
Follow Chloe Giordano on Instagram or right here on Tumblr at @karenin. Some of her original embroideries are available for purchase via her Etsy shop.
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Gorgeous!
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