Tuesday, November 4, 2025 11:04:43 PM
Today I was excited about what I was doing. I am working on the eye, single strand, and it looks like an eyeball!
LESSON: Don’t give up.:
Friday, November 7, 2025 10:47:14 PM
Since I started sewing, decades ago, there have been quite a few tools designed to thread a needle. My needle threader is a classic: a piece of wire attached to a small circle. For a while I embraced the challenge of doing it myself, and I still can but, I see using the needle threader a challenge. The hole is bigger but one still needs a steady hand. I tried using a few of the newer types, I am so good at using the classic threader that setting up the automatic threader and other gadgets is to much trouble.
Why am I writing about needle threaders when I should be discussing the owl? Because I once again had to remove stitches and now I am threading a needle to start again!
This error had to do with color choices. The owl’s eyes are not White! The owls eyeballs are black. Despite the number of times I look at the finished picture I have, that detail did not register. Sp seam ripper it was!
Note, I started working on the eyes three days ago, the 4th.
I have two needle threaders beside me at all times, including a backup in my sewing kit. One is all aluminum, the circle and the wired and the other is plastic with the wire loop. I buy these things in mass quantity because I misplace them quite often and I have them at every sewing station.
My basic sewing supplies: sewing needle, thread, scissors and needle threader, everything else is a want but not a need.
LESSON; Sewing is as expensive as you want it to be but you can do quality work and not spend a lot of money.
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| This was from a pattern, it was easier! |
Sunday, November 9, 2025 5:35:3
I have been looking at the owl trying to determine what do I do next? Finish the eyes or work on the feathers. The head, looking at the sample image, has a layered look, is that because of the number of threads or the type of stitch? I went through my embroidery books and saw a stitch that might work, namely the Couching, but when I researched how to sew it I realized it is not the one. Next I Goggled “layered embroidery stitches” and came across Padded/layered Satin stitch, I think this is what I want.
The best way to learn different embroidery stitches is by practicing, this is the purpose of samplers. The first sampler I completed was 3 round panels kit with about 30 stitches on each. The next kit I purchased was 12 panels and at least 100 stitches, it will be a while before I finish it.
I am starting to purchase books, they can I have learned the books can show you the results and identify a display a pattern and write out how it is to be sewn but a watching someone sew the stitch makes a difference, especially if you have no idea what you are doing. Embroidery is an international art and certain stitch names have a particular country of origin.
LESSON: It is better to sew what you know than to try something different and not be satisfied with the results.
Tomorrow I am going to Walmart to look at the embroidery floss that is available, I am not 100% satisfied with the colors I have chosen. I have been know to change the colors that are included with the kit.
WRITTEN by Marsha L Floyd
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