How stitching helps beat stress

It’s time to take up embroidery as a way to relax and enjoy. Medical experts are supportive of embroidery as an effective way to improve creativity and mindfulness.…

What You'll Need to Start Embroidering

How to Use an Embroidery Hoop

Bind Your Hoop for Even Fabric Tension

Have you ever been stitching and suddenly you realize that the fabric in your hoop has loosened and the tension is no longer even? Some hoops…

What type of fabric to use for hand embroidery

As I'm self-taught I don’t know if I can tell you what the best embroidery fabric is, but I can tell you what I like to use. The main rule - the fabric should…

Main errors in embroidery

STRONG THREAD TENSION. I always say that you don't need to pull the thread too hard, it should lie free. It can cause the holes in your…

Preparing Your Threads

To make your stitches smooth and shiny (especially for satin stitch and if you need less then 6 strands) you will need to know that there are few things that will help to achieve it. Most of my designs use…

Table match the colors of cotton floss

Starting your stitching with no knots right from front side

Once you have your single thread (or 2-3 strands), fold it in half so that the ends are together and you have a loop at the other end. Thread the two…

How to finish your thread from the back using the loop and hide the ends

When your thread is about to end you need to make the tiny stitch on the back side and make the loop. Use the places where…

Metallic Threads | My Tips & Tricks

They are not flexible as usual cotton threads, a lot of people avoid them to use, because they seem to be difficult to…

Water Soluble Stabilizers for Pattern Transferring

Sometimes we want to stitch on dark or thick fabric like felt, jeans, velvet, t-shirts, caps and other clothes and accessories. But you can't see through it even…

Pattern Transferring Using Light Sources

Sometimes the cotton fabric is thin enough and I can see through it without any light. But if your fabric is thick so you need some…

How to fix broken wooden hoop

I use those kind of hoops for framing and stitching. And sometimes after international shipping some of them come broken, it's because inner part was made…

Embroidery Books

Here is the list of books I've recently purchased for myself and recommend for…

List of Online Shops for Embroidery Supplies

I just made a list of online shops sorted by countries so you can take a look and order some materials for embroidery. If you know more…

All about Pilot Frixion Pens

There are variety of marking tools: air erasable, water erasable, heating erasable. But Pilot Frixion pens are my favorite marking tools. Here are the reasons why…

Iron on Transfer Pen and all you need to know about it

I tried iron on transfer pen for the first time when I used that jeans fabric for Cozy Winter Cottage project. It was not…