Patching with embroidery

Practical Embroidery : Hand embroidery for mending. Decorative mending techniques and stitches : Embroidery for mending

I use to cringe whenever one of my children earned another scout badge. Ug, sewing those tough little things onto a sash was bad enough, but sewing them onto the chest pocket was the worse. Other m…

Enhance your mending skills with hand embroidery techniques. Repair and reinforce damaged fabrics while adding a unique touch with artistic designs.

Is there anything cooler than personalizing your clothes with your own needlework? Probably not. When I first set out to start decorating my clothing I was very overwhelmed with all of the different options for making patches. I got a little stuck trying to learn how to do it the "right way" before just diving in and

Embroidery is a great way to personalize your clothes, but you can also mend and repair holes with embroidery using this video tutorial

This is why you can have nice things.

There are two sides to patches besides the front and the back. There are the real patches, the work horse, practical, I got a hole that needs covering patch and then there’s the strictly fun,…

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For Easter this year, I thought it might be fun to make little patches to go on buckets for some of my Easter gifts. These are my notes on how I make a patch from an applique. You do need to be able to stitch an applique for this information to be valuable to you! If you do not know how to do that and need a little guidance, check out the tutorial on how to stitch an applique from Itch2Stitch (click here). Additionally, I have included my notes on taking parts of the digitizing from one file…

As you use embroidery floss for a project, you'll find you're left with small bits of leftover floss. These leftover bits of floss are often referred to as Old Ratty Threads (or ORTs, for short), and newer stitchers often ask what they're "supposed" to be doing with them. As is always the case in hand embroidery, there aren't any "rules" for what to do with these leftover bits of floss. In this post, I share a few ideas for what you might do with them!