Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Embroidered Line Drawings



With my mini series in embroidery behind us, I think it is time to start showing you some great ideas for creating your own embroidery masterpieces! Many embroidery patterns are nothing more than line drawings, so it's a great place to start if you want to try out some non traditional patterns. For this piece I chose a line drawing of a Pug puppy I found on Deviant Art by Lady Gryph.





If you happen to be good at line drawings, or have a friend that draws up a storm, that is a great way to get your very own original patterns! You can also take photographs and tracing paper and create line drawings if you aren't so artistically inclined. Simply trace around the edges of your subject matter, and any details you want to include. Keep in mind that you will be sewing it later, so less is more. You don't want so many lines that your picture is impossible to embroider, but you want enough details that people know what it is.


For this drawing, I used almost entirely backstitch to embroider my design, I just used a couple French Knots to make pupils.

I think I might turn this little guy into a quilt patch. I am going to be starting some quilting tutorials soon, as I plan on making a quilt for a new little niece or nephew I have on the way!

If any of you try out some line drawing embroidery I'd love to see it, just post it to The Craftinomicon Flickr Group!


13 comments:

  1. Good work! It looks great but looking at all those stitches is scary! There are so many of them! :)

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    1. Thanks! It's much easier than it looks, I am not really an avid embroiderer and I did this in a couple hours while geeking out watching Lord of the Rings:The Two Towers yet again...

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  2. This is so neat and would be a great way to document pets!

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    1. I just love it! It was kind of an A-HA! moment when I thought about doing line drawings for embroidery, and who doesn't love cute puppies?

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  3. I've thought about using drawings, great post! I think I will go check out your mini series now :) Found you through craftgawker!

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    1. Thanks! I hope you enjoy the tutorials! I am really getting back into embroidery lately. It's hard not over sharing projects on the blog :) I'm sure they will all make an appearance at some point though. :)

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  4. soooo cute ! I *luv* the "pug* !!

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  5. Thank you everyone for the compliments! I love this little guy too, I have plans to make him a family at some point :)

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  6. Love it! :D My V-Day craft swap partner did this with a Sherlock Holmes image: www.craftlockian.com/2012/02/my-valentine-craft-swap.html I'll need to try it out sometime!

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    1. That's awesome! I'm thinking about doing some Alice in Wonderland illustrations at some point. :)

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  7. I may well give this a go! I wish I could paint but I'm rubbish at all crafts. I can sew though!

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