Freehand embroidery

Francesca Kemp Textile Art creates the most beautiful pieces with freehand machine embroidery. Here, Francesca explains why she loves these three weights: 🧵80wt – Her latest addiction offers a fine finish, perfect for sketching with thread and allowing a slow build-up, ideal for fluffier projects. 🧵50wt – A trusted outliner, her go-to choice until recently. 🧵40wt – Excellent for fonts and color flooding, adding boldness and a needed pop against strong colors like orange.

A scrap of fabric that I was practicing a new transfer technique on. I think it's gonna work.

Here's 5 embroidery projects to get started with hand embroidery. At Mindful Mantra Embroidery, we believe that everyone is creative in some way, and can embroider if they want to! Learn embroidery with our beginner friendly embroidery patterns

"Tomoko Ogawa's sewing machine work is full of playfulness. Just looking at the stitches and collages, which are sewn as if enjoying chance, makes your...

Katie is a textile artist based in East Sussex, creating, designing and teaching. A published author of 'Layered and Stitched Pictures' published by Search Press, Katie loves equipping others with their own textiles skills. Specialising in freehand machine embroidery, applique, painting and needle felting, Katie has a unique technique and life like style, creating beautiful mixed media artworks.

Paint & Stitch

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