Photo above of a lovely wristlet which is machine embroidered with a dragonfly (gorgeous) using a normal sewing machine. Photo from ‘When Bambou Sews’.

Well, I have found a great tutorial on a French craft blog called ‘When Bambou Sews‘ that I read. Take a look at this easy photo Tutorial to Machine Embroider a Bag.

Below I have translated the important parts for you:

Materials Needed

A normal sewing machine

Tissue paper

Lead pencil

Material

Coloured thread

All the other things needed to sew with.

How to Machine Embroider

1. Take your pencil and trace the image you want onto the tissue paper.
2. Pin the tissue paper onto the material you are going to embroider.
3. For little parts of the image, you can replace your machine needle with a needle with a smaller head, also reduce the length of your stitch.
4. When you have embroidered the image onto the tissue paper, pull the paper away.
5. Voila, you are left with a lovely machine embroidered image.

A few tips from me:

• The amazing original freezer paper is ideal for this because you can iron it to the material and it won’t move while you are sewing.
• Embroidery thread is a must. You can buy metallic threads which would look great.
• To get images search Google images, or you can find images anywhere and reduce them to lines in Photoshop (but that is another tutorial in itself)
• A free pattern for a very cute wrist bag, perfect for this, is available at Butterick Patterns.
• You could use this technique on tshirts, socks?, bags, pencil cases, pillow cases, towels, dresses, hats, the sky is the limit!

I am in love!

Bambou has used the same technique to create the beautiful flower motif on the bag below!

Thoughts?

Enjoy!

Mia

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