Embroidered Beetle Tutorial at Sew in Love Blog
"The first thing to do then, was to pad the outline with felt. There
was no pattern given for it, so I just guess-timated and then trimmed to
size. Then you stab stitch it in place. No need for lots of stitches,
just a few are OK. You could even just put a few stitches in the
centre of the felt and that would be fine too, but I prefer to have the
edges secured so they don't get in my way when I'm working the next
part. The next step
is to work satin stitches all across the body, completely covering the
felt shape. Here you can see me working with three strands instead of
the prescribed two again. No need to worry about covering outlines
here, but it both saved needlestrokes and may even add to the height of
the whole element".... Read more
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Several more tutorials on my blog too! Feel free to link to those etc.=)
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