Embroidery

How To – Embroidering On Paper

Two pieces of paper artwork with embroidery and pressed flowers.

This guide has everything you need to know about embroidering on paper, from the types of paper to choose, basic steps, tips, and embroidery stitches to practice projects. Learn how to create stunning embroidery designs with nothing but paper, thread, a needle or an awl, and a sprinkling of imagination. I’m passionate about sharing resources …

Flower Pressing, Pressed Flower Art

What Are The Best Flowers To Press?

Diagram of pressed flowers labelled with their names.

The best flowers to press are most definitely the easiest! If the last time you filled your flower press with carefully selected blooms left you weeping over pages of brown decomposed specimens, this flower pressing guide for beginners will be your saviour! It will teach you to spot the ‘super qualities’ that make flowers easy …

Embroidery

Learn How To Do A Backstitch

Two diagrams showing how to do backstitch.

A backstitch is one of the most basic stitches used in hand embroidery, most often worked in lines that can stitch around curved shapes and be solely for straight lines. The back stitch is commonly used as an outline stitch to define shapes before filling them in with more complex stitches. Back Stitch Steps: Embroidering …

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