I have family and friends coming in for the holiday, and it promises to be a jolly time all around! So after I pop in with the Thanksgiving Eye-Spy, I’ll bow out for the weekend. I’ll be taking the rest of Thanksgiving weekend off. Then, Thanksgiving!! We’ll have a little Thanksgiving Eye-Spy for 2021, so watch for that on Thursday! ![]() I’ll show you the finish of this version and share some stitching tips and ideas for this design. We’ll finish the dragonflies for good next week. I’ll be posting the tie-ups on all the dragonfly tutorials in one PDF very soon! I’m dedicating this morning to finishing that up! Coming Up! If you’re a member of the Needle ‘n Thread community on Patreon, you’ll find all the tutorials available as downloadable PDFs. These projects all happened in 2021 – it was a fun year! Besides all the articles that take you step-by-step through Dragonfly #1, you’ll find tutorials on how to embroider wheat, strawberries, daisies, and grapes. You can find all the tutorials for this series in the How to Embroider (Blank) Index here. You can substitute for all of the above! You might wait to see the finished design, and then decide if you want to stitch it and what colors and materials you’d use to make yours unique. Since I’m working from my stash, I just pulled materials that fit the look I was trying to achieve. If you have supplies from the first dragonfly, you’ll have some of the colors and threads already.īut chances are, you’ll have to make substitutes. If you followed the first tutorial, you’ll notice that some of the supplies listed above overlap. Miyuki 11/0 round seed in opaque purple rainbow irisĦ/0 round seed beads in a dark purple (from a TOHO design mix called “Purple Passion” from Art Beads – substitute any 6/0 seed bead that works, color-wise) Mill Hill Medium Buble Beads 82045 (Willow green) You can substitute any fabric you want to stitch on!ĭMC stranded cotton: #35 (somewhat of an eggplant purple) 469 (green) 772 (very light green)Īu Ver a Soie Metallic braid #4 in colors 2829 and 042.Īu Ver a Soie silk: Soie de Paris #2125 (you can substitute DMC 469) Materials List for Dragonfly #2įabric: My sample of Dragonfly #2 is embroidered on the same linen as the first dragonfly – Glass Linen, which is semi-sheer with a fine, open weave. When you print the PDF, choose “actual size” in your printer dialog box. The design should print at about 6.5″ high and 3.5″ wide. Here’s the PDF for easy printing of this design: To mix things up, the second dragonfly will a new color scheme, too. Design-wise, it’s always nice to give an alive thing some context, I think.įor some background context for this particular dragonfly, I wanted to go light and airy and delicate. ![]() Now that we’ve learned to embroider a dragonfly – we finished the first dragonfly in this tutorial here – I thought it would be a good idea to place a dragonfly in a setting of sorts.Ī bug all alone is all well and fine. Fortunately, I love my work!īut in the meantime, I thought it might be a good idea to continue with the final part of our Embroidered Dragonflies series, by presenting the design and materials list for the second dragonfly. So I’m not thinking in terms of weekend these days. I have lots of dabbling to finish up this weekend so that we can explore some other stitching ideas in the near future. Instead, every time you switch colours you use bobbins to reintroduce the colour, or pick up from where you left the working yarn.Good morning and Happy Friday! Yay! It’s the workend! Unlike other colourwork techniques like fair isle stranded knitting, intarsia uses separate bobbins so you don’t need to carry the yarn along the back of your project. What's the difference between intarsia and fair isle knitting? Intarsia is a colourwork technique that enables you to make cool shapes and images in your knitwear! Think jazzy jumpers, snazzy socks, dazzling decor - not to mention epic festive sweaters! It isn't a hard skill to pick up but it can take a lot of patience and practice with all the difference colours and strands that you will have to use. Plus we have some fab free intarsia knitting patterns for you to try out! So what’s intarsia? Make your knitwear picture perfect! Learn how to knit intarsia in this beginners step-by-step guide with Merion. New selection may affect price, shipping options and product availability
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