#stumpwork

[mlleclaudine]

Embroidery by roniy1983

[masadonna]

still bird moment

[khavelund]

Happy fuck you and fuck your train Friday!

This is version 3 of "fuck you and fuck your train" - version 1 was done in a very light pencil and I gave up, and version 2 was ripped by the blurry menace in the background, Merlin (not to be mistaken for the very good boy Ollie, who has never done anything wrong in his life).

For details - the green leaves are mistletoe, part of the original Norse legends, and there will be white stumpwork berries attached once the leaves and pine boughs are done. I'm also making stumpwork leaves because I apparently enjoy suffering.

The pattern was transferred into the fabric using my cricut and a heat erasable pen, because I hate drawing freehand on fabric. The text got super messed up somehow and will be corrected as I stitch.

[andordean]

Autumn I is done 💜

I wonder whether I should be concerned that my 3D elements are getting bigger with each completed work......

[intermittentstitcher]

Reblog for a bigger sample size

An article so that you can find out about the different kinds of embroidery featured in this poll.

[theenbyroiderer]

People seemed to appreciate the tutorial I posted so here is another one. Here is how you can stitch a 3D sea urchin (without the spines). This one is a bit more advanced and needs some descrioption to accompany the images.

Technique: The technique is called woven picot. If needed you should be able to find better stitch instructions on youtube.

Threads and yarns: I've preferred using a twisted thread for the woven picot. In the tutorial I'm using sashiko thread, and that worked ok but wasn't ideal. I would recommend cotton perle or mercerised cotton crochet yarn for this technique. The top example is mercer cotton. The tighter the thread is twisted the better I'd say. I do NOT recommend using six-stranded floss.

Variegated thread is fun for this project. If the randomeness of it bothers you then you can cut out lighter and darker sections of your variegated thread and then do every other wedge of woven picot darker and every other lighter, as I've done in the top example.

The yarn in the middle is some really chunky wool knitting yarn, which is a bit of a struggle to work with. You could also just ball some yarn up, pack in there and fasten it with some stitches with a thinner thread. It's not going to be visible anyway, so you can improvize.

Needle: A blunt needle is better for this technique too, but I only had sharp ones at the time I made this tutorial. Don't be like me.

Process: I'd say the pictures are pretty self explanatory, but here is a brief rundown. Draw a circle on the fabric, in the size you want your sea urchin to be. Split this circle in to five equal sections. A sea urchin typically has a patter that is made up of five broader wedges interspersed by five narrower wedges, so that's what we want to achieve. So when you have your five sections, try to sketch out five broad and five narroow sections using the lines you've already drawn as a guideline.

Make the wedges as pictured above. Each wedge needs to be of equal length and a bit longer than the radius of the circle.

Fill the middle with som padding, as described above. I've made five puffs of padding, one for each broader wedge. Which leaves little valleys for the narrow wedges to rest in, and creates a shape typical of some sea urchins. The woven wedges are then simply joined together as neatly as possible with a thin thread of similar color (I just split the sashiko thread down to half the thickness and used that).

Lastly I finished the edge of the hole in the middle with some button hole type stitches maybe? I'm shit at stitch names... Beading is optional, I just thought it looked neat.

[julieschulerart]

The Anatomical Venus. Hand-embroidered artwork 30" x 33"

[lemerveille]

the bird or the egg [details]

metal threads, silk threads, metallic thread, metallic felt, beads, wire and fabric paint on cotton and wired organza ground.

[stclements]

[artificersarchive]

Dragon with bi pride wings for a recent LGBTQ+ show. Bead embroidery, stumpwork & needle felting. "Soaring Bi."

[mlleclaudine]

Embroidery by roniy1983

[masadonna]

five poisonous insects can be protected you from evil things maybe? lol

[grimmsoddities]

I haven't been posting much because I'm elbow deep in a long, tedious project involving stumpwork embroidery, that's going to take me approximately five hundred and two years to complete.

Also, new phone, and I think this phones camera is worse than my old one. Bleh. At least the screen isn't freezing on me like my old one.

[andordean]

Autumn update

Not gonna lie, friends, I'm Chuffed at how the chanterelle turned out. 💜💜💜

[intermittentstitcher]

An embroidery meme

@subarux99

[runixa]

I attempted some stumpwork

It didn't turn out great.

I'm really not sure how to get the shapes right for sewing together or sew them neatly.

Or cut them out without cutting the stitches.

It's not a terrible first attempt