Needle craft

Embroidery is an ancient craft that can be easily worked upon by mere imagination and patience. It just needs a passion to create fine handicraft utilizing your talent and precious time. There are numerous stitches that may be used to embellish a fabric and enhance its beauty! Embroidery Stitches: Ancient Craft With Fabric, Threads, Colors and Imagination is an exclusive talent being used to embellish fabrics and create beautiful garments in fashion industry!

Embroidery is a craft to increase the beauty of a fabric, stitch two pieces of cloth together and create daily use items and show off your talent.

Daily items can be created at home using running embroidery stitch. Some of the items are listed as follows:

• Table napkins with kids initials
• Table Mats with borders
• Table Runner with floral embroidered motifs
• Apron with floral patch work or initials
• Dresser Mats with embroidery and laces
• Pillow covers
• Flat Sheets
• Purses with embroidery, mirror work and tassels
• Bags with patchwork, quilted embroidered repurposed designs
• Tea Cozy with colorful floral motifs to start a happy day
• Gadget Covers with cool stitch designs to keep off dust
• Sofa Backs and hand rest to enhance the décor and save headrest and hand rest sofa fabric
• Baby Wraps to wrap baby in style and hand embroidered fabric created with love
• Baby Bibs to display your creativity while personalizing baby accessory
• Diaper bags to store and carry baby stuff in personalized and hand embroidered first suitcases!

Options are limitless. There is no limits to creativity once you start working on such projects ideas keep flowing.

Pick up fabric of your comfort and choosing. Gain ideas from readymade items while window shopping and create your own projects.

Start with small ones as table napkins then gradually work on bigger projects as table covers and pillow covers, or even flat sheets.

Buy cotton or silk threads and set of needles for your project. Start with repurposing some old /used table napkins to have hands on idea.

Research and learn new stitches and also invent some fusion stitches on your own. There is no one way of performing a craft. Innovation is the key!

Draw designs and motifs using tracing paper and carbon paper or for small projects draw freehand and try the embroidery of your imagination.

Do not stop before the project is complete. Display talent! Create new! Repeat!

Shikha Saxena

Jan 19·3 min read