Free hand machine 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.

Well spring seems to be moving on a pace here in Herefordshire! The sun is shining the grass is ris, I wonder where the birdys is? Just the other day I saw my first honey bee of the season and to celebrate I thought I would make a little tutorial to show you how to do your own freehand embroidery of this most awesome of Apidae! you will need; A sewing machine. Any machine will do as long as the sewing feet are interchangeable. A freehand sewing foot and plate (see photo) If your not sure…

Sarah Becvar on Instagram: "The place has now been filled, we’re fully booked! There’s just the one place remaining at my workshop on Friday 30th August, could it be for you? What time? 9.30-4pm Where? My garden studio, just north of Lewes, East Sussex What will I learn? Freehand machine embroidery with lots of guidance and troubleshooting tips What will I make? Being an all day workshop you’ll have time to make two projects; notecards, makeup bag, bookmark, hoop artwork and more Do I…

When I first started doing freehand machine embroidery on water-soluble fabric I made a lot of mistakes. In this post I chat about one mistake in particular. The mistake relates to drawing on water soluble fabric, a troublesome issue for many. So if you are interested in learning what I used early on (with disastrous result) and what I use now (that I know better). check it out. www.meredithwoolnough.com.au/blog

Sarah Becvar on Instagram: "🌸WORKSHOP NEWS🌸 I’ve just listed an afternoon workshop which will be more practical for those who’d like to attend one of my embroidery workshops but have further to travel. Here are the details: Friday 5th April 1-4.30pm In my garden studio, Easons Green, East Sussex (a few miles north of Lewes) Suitable for all abilities Simply bring along your sewing machine, all other materials will be provided. 🌸Join me for a fun session of freehand machine…

Some tips on how to get started with free motion embroidery. How to start your free motion embroidery journey with textile artist, Agatha 'Agy' Lee.

gallery of freehand machine embroidered pictures by UK textile artist Alison Holt using silk painting and freehand machine embroidery

Thank you for all who read their way down to the end of my last post - it was much longer than first anticipated! I hope you've enjoyed visiting the blogs I nominated (apologies in advance for the Google-suggested translation for a certain sentence in Ingrid's post - I have suggested an alternative to Mr Google, but he's ignored me so far!). Right, where were we...free machining, I think! In class we have been continuing to practice our free machining skills, now using free motion stitching…

Embroider with you "normal" sewing machine - no need for an expensive, special embroidery machine ^-^