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• Embroidery - is the ornamentation of textiles and other materials with needle work for personal use and decoration not only at home but for offices as well embroidery was introduced into the orient by the netherlanders in the 15th century it was brought by the spaniards into the philippines where it has made a wonderful growth and work done it rivals the best work done in switzerland a country noted for its exquisite embroidery. The nuns in the convents were the first to make articles with embroidery work during their old times
• Gauge - used to measure short distance
• Thimbles - made from metal or plastic protect the middle finger and push the needle while doing your embroidery work they come inside the six or small to 12 or large
• Embroidery hoop or stiletto - made of wood bone metal or plastic used to make eyelets in the fabric to be embroidered it is also used to keep the fabric stretch while embroidery stitches or applied on the design
• Tape measure - used for measuring more than one foot distance or materials
• Embroidery scissors - a small sharp and pointed good for fine word used for trimming scallops clipping threads and cutting large eyelets
• Needle threader - is used for easier threading especially by those sewers with poor eyesight
• Embroidery needle - a short pieces of steel with a fine point at one end and the little opening or eye at the other
• Crewell - sides 1 to 10 are sharp pointed medium length with large eyes for easy threading they are used for most standard embroidery stitchery
• Chenille - sizes 13 are also sharp pointed needles but they are thicker and longer and have larger eyes they are the type of needles appropriate for embroidery that is worked with heavier yarns
• Tapestry needle - is from side is 13 to 26 they are similar inside this to chanel but are blunt rather than sharp this makes them best for thread counting embroider and for the needle point as well
• Tracing paper - use for tracing designs
• Pin cushion - a place for pins and needles
• Sewing box - used to keep together the embroidery tools and materials
• Fabric - sometimes referred to ask clock or a great variety and they differ in materials weight weave and design color and finish
• Common weave - includes most tightly woven fabrics with the relatively smooth surface like line and wool and cotton they are best used for articles with decorative stitches
• Even weave - are intended for hard danger embroidery since the number of threads per square inch is the same for both warp and woof
• Basket weave - is commonly used by beginners and ramy linen by those who have been used to this embroidery
• Seam (stitch) - a loop of thread or yarn resulting from a single path or movement of the needle in sewing knitting or crocheting
• Hand sewing - is a stitch fabric together permanently by hand
• Basic hand sewing stitches

  • Back stitch
  • Basting stitch
  • Running stitch
  • Outline stitch
  • Blanket stitch
  • Catch stitch
  • Chain stitch
• Back stitch - is the strongest hand stitch and is used to imitate machine stitches. Make one running stitch then take a back stitch to the beginning of the first stitch thus overlapping each running stitch
• Basting stitch - is a quite important in successful sewing this is used to hold fabric temporarily in place until permanently stitched there are four type of blasting hand basting machine basting pin basting and basting edges with an iron
• Basting stitch - is done with a single strand of thread often the trend is of a highly contrasting color to the surface this provides an easy visibility since basting is always removed before the garment is given the final press
• Outline or stem stitch - this is a similar to make back stitch but is slanted to make one slanted back stitch in front of another letting each one overlap the one it is just a little bit until the design is filled
• Blanket stitch - a bottle host stitch used on edges of a blanket or other materials to take to be hermmed
• Catch stitch - also called the herringbone switch this is used for black finish next to the fabric such as seen building on the hem hold open hand edge away from you work from left to right take a stitch in the hem then a tiny stitch to the right just beyond edge of him will make this point of needle to the left this makes diagonal stitches on each other
• Chain stitch - an ornamental stitch in which moves are crocheted or embroidered in a chain insert the needle in and out of the fabric as it is running stitch bring that red under the tip of the needle then fabric than pull the string
• Design - can mean whatever you want it to mean to you
• Embroidery - the handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials with needle and thread or yarn
• Embroidery - may also incorporate other materials such as metal strip pearls beads quills and sequence
• Embroidery - Stitches including chain stitch blanket stitch running stitch satan stitch and cross stitch these stitches can be tracked back to embroidery earliest beginnings
• Basic sewing hand embroidery and hand sewing

  1. Running stitch
  2. Blanket stitch
  3. Back stitch
  4. Overstitch
  5. French knot
  6. Herringbone stitch
• How to choose a color scheme

  1. Consider your color context
  2. Refer to a color wheel to identify analogous colors
  3. Refer to a color wheel to identify complementary colors
  4. Focus on monochromatic colors in the same hue
  5. Use a triadic color scheme to create high contrast
  6. Create a split complementary color scheme
• color wheel - Colors are important component of hand embroidery it sets the tone for the entire piece of work bright colors add playfulness and cheerfulness while dark shades can throw in sophistication this page will explore quickly some elements of color and give ideas to select a palette for the project the subject of colors is vast and i will put in every effort to make it simple but relevant to you first let us understand colors
• This is the color wheel where the colors are placed in a rainbow pattern all the following theories about color will be based on this color wheel if you see the color wheel is divided into warm and cool color
• Colors can be organized as primary secondary and territory colors in the color wheel
• Primary colors - red yellow and blue
• Secondary colors - violet orange and green
• Tertiary colors - violet-red red-orange yellow-green green-blue blue-violet