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Free Embroidery

  • Writer: Lidia Amarante
    Lidia Amarante
  • Aug 2, 2020
  • 2 min read

Embroidery, for a long time, was considered and seen as an outdated art and only used for towels, bed linen, chair backs and clothing applications.


Gradually it has been regaining its glory and going far beyond traditional use, opinion has changed, and many are the ones who are reduced to elegance, versatility, creativity and countless possibilities that this technique confers contributing to its expansion and occupying worldwide.


It is true that to embroider it is necessary to know or learn some basic stitches, some easy, others complex and the most attractive to create other stitches according to our idea or need and that adapts “perfectly” to the intended one. A "difficulty" today easily overcome by the countless schools and tutorials that teach many techniques and points that can be performed by everyone.


Regarding materials, it is not weird, it can be made in any type of fabric and for any purpose, but I prefer fabrics with natural and smooth fibers such as cotton and linen, I am not as weird as threads, any since satisfy my needs and as for the frame, I like it but it is often not necessary, it just allows the job to be more perfect since it smoothest and helps the fabric to always be stretched. It is also possible to be executed on paper, plastic, leather, wood… in short, there is a multitude of materials, THERE IS CREATIVITY.


The choice of the point depends a lot on the type of work you want to do and the personal taste, you can go from the point behind, full, hue, English.


It allows you to free yourself from thinking which drawing or graphic “I have” to use, we can draw freely on the fabric or make the decal of any one we like, we should only be careful to use the chemical paper or dressmaker's pencil, easily acquired in haberdashery, just be careful to use light pencils for dark fabrics and vice versa.


The charm and pleasure of free embroidery is the need for little material combined with the endless possibilities of letting the needle work in any direction, leaving behind a thread that outlined a stitch and shapes a previously planned or unplanned work and always learn one. new point or a new technique


The most curious thing, undoubtedly, is the therapeutic efficacy in people with a very busy lifestyle, as it is a job that can easily be interrupted, let go and picked up again without the time interfering with its execution. DARE AND TRY IT!





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