cross-posted from: https://hobbit.world/post/5719

I love the way embroidery plays with having big loops of yarn to create different structures and textures like the big loops that make the tree leaves, or the different directions of the yarn to make the bricks around the door.

Got this from here.

I made this costume out of silk and linen, with a maritime theme. The cuffs are inspired by sea weed and the bigger motives on the vest are clamshells. All seams are weigthed with seed pearls in green and blue.

I made this jacket from leftover fabric pieces that were too small to be used as masks during Covid restrictions. Then I dyed it all dark blue and padded the jacket with leftover wool batting.

Last came the embroidery, call it embroidered quilting through all layers. It is in off-white cotton floss, two strands. Stem stitch, wave stitch, knot stitch ... I forget what I used. Couching too, I think. Need to check. ;)

Embroiderers of the Threadiverse! Since makers tend to make more than one sort of thing, and we crafters need to stick together, here's a list of fellow creative communities for your navigation pleasure.

For each craft I'll include the current most active community first as well as alternatives, and add each with their full URL as well as local links for Lemmy and Kbin users respectively.

3D PRINTING

• !3dprinting@lemmy.world - Lemmy / Kbin
• !3dprinting@lemmy.ml - Lemmy / Kbin

Bookbinding

• !bookbinding@lemm.ee - Lemmy / Kbin

COSPLAY

• !cosplay@lemmy.blahaj.zone - Lemmy / Kbin
• [!Cosplay@kbin.social](https:/

A faithful map of the visible stars of the milky way in the northern and southern hemisphere. The display is unusual, since the sky equator is snaking like a sinus curve through the star chart: Northern and southern hemisphere are visible simultaneously.

As Basis I used an old hand-drawn black-and-white star chart by Fritzius, and I compared the visible stars and magnitudes with NASA material to approximate the coloring for this pearl embroidery. White and blue stars are white and silber pearls, red stars red pearls and the yellow range is rendered with gold pearls. Very dark stars are black or blue.

Star magnitudes lower than 2 have a paillette to show their size. The middle blue area signifies the milky way itself, the slightly darker area around is its light halo.

Hand embroidered on printed (patchwork) cotton fabric; embroidery floss by DMC and MEZ, rochaille pearls by Clover/Prym.

At least I hope that this is called needlepoint? My husband wanted a dragon, So I made him one. The sketch was a bit more detailed, but since this was the cover of his pencil box, I decided to skimp on the bottom part.

Cotton floss on cotton velvet.

This is the inside:

This is my take on the Fleurs D'Annette pattern by what was Chelsea Buns at the time but is now called The Blackwork Boutique on Etsy.

It was originally given away free during the first lockdowns of the pandemic, and I fell in love with it instantly. The original plan was to do a two-tone colour scheme but I was so taken with this coppery orange I just sort of never switched it up!

Finished in 2021, still waiting to be FFOed, you know how it goes! 😄

Because a real mess needs practice. German-style beech wood embroidery frame, made by my grandfather. I keep it raised on two flexible raisers.

This leaf was first painted onto the fabric and then stitched over with lumi yarn, cordonnet and cotton.

I am quite partial to DMC cotton floss, but I had to realize that in certain sashiko uses, the threds are prone to felting and shrinkage, which bunches up the fabric.

On the other hand, I like buying "grandma's embroidery stuff" off Kleinanzeigen. These collections netted me a lot of extraordinarily nice colors and qualities, in some cases a hundred years old.

What do you prefer to use?

A samue jacket with ecru-on-white embroidery. The fabric is pieced together out of cotton pieces I had left over from sewing covid masks. The original colorway was beyond garish. I dyed it dark blue, put in old wool roving an batting and stitched through all layers to stabilize the package.

I made this pencil case with leftover threads in Goldwork technique.

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