Knots – Learn to Embroider

Knots.

Yes – I have more than one lesson about knots! They’re a hot topic in the embroidery world. 🙂

Here are all my posts about knots.

Before you knot that thread you need to know how much to use, so here’s one more post that doesn’t really have a better place to live. 🙂 How Many Strands of Thread Should I Use?

Return to the Learn to Embroider main Table of Contents.

Move on to the lessons for the four most basic embroidery stitches.

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Working with Patterns – Learn to Embroider

When it comes to working with embroidery patterns, there are only a few things you need to know – where to get patterns, and how to transfer them to whatever you’re embroidering.

If you’re getting a little more advanced you might also want to know how to enlarge or reduce a pattern to make it exactly the size you need.

Here are all my posts about working with patterns.

Pattern Sources

How to Resize a Pattern

Return to the Learn to Embroider main Table of Contents.

Move on to the posts about knots. Yes – a whole section about knots. 🙂

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Tools and Supplies – Learn to Embroider

Embroidery requires very few tools and supplies. Basically you need a needle, thread and fabric – and that’s it!

Of course, there are a few extra tools that can make things a little easier or more fun. 🙂

Here are links to all my posts about embroidery tools and supplies.

For Beginners

Specialty Fabrics

Threads

Stabilizers and Pattern Transfer Tools

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Move on to the posts about working with patterns.

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Learn to Embroider! Embroidery 101 and 201

Let’s learn to embroider!

Embroidery is a fabulous craft – inexpensive, portable, and as easy or complicated as you want to make it.

I’ve organized here all the embroidery tutorials on Shiny Happy World into groups that walk you through every step of the process – from choosing materials to transferring your pattern, lots of different stitches, and suggestions for finishing and displaying your work. Think of this page as the table of contents linking out to all the info you’ll need.

If you’re just getting started, you’ll be able to work systematically through these posts with any Shiny Happy World pattern. So jump right in!

Each of these links will take you to a page with more info on that topic – usually including links to other pages with more detailed info and tutorials.

Each of those pages will have suggested links to keep moving you through the lessons. There will also always be a link back to this – the main Learn to Embroider page – so you can refer back to the main Table of Contents as needed and jump to any topic you like.

Tools and Supplies

Working with Patterns (including enlarging, reducing, and transferring your patterns and tips for working with digital patterns)

Knots

The Four Beginner Stitches

Outline Stitches

Fill Stitches

Other Stitches

Finishing Your Work

That’s it! You can find a similar table of contents for all my quilting tutorials here.

Happy stitching!

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Using Shiny Happy World Applique Patterns to Make Things That Aren’t Quilts – Let’s Make a Quilt

I love making quilts – and I also love making other non-quilt things with my applique patterns.

Extra bonus points for using a single quilt pattern in multiple ways!

Here are several free patterns that work with my basic 10-inch applique squares – no resizing needed!

Here are several free patterns that work with just some simple resizing. This post about making coasters has info about resizing an applique pattern that can be applied to any of these projects.

Return to the main Let’s Make a Quilt Table of Contents.

Happy stitching!

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Basting and Final Quilting – Let’s Make a Quilt

Once you have your quilt top all sewn together, it’s time to finish your quilt. At this point it’s just like finishing a traditionally-constructed quilt.

Here are all my posts about layering and basting your quilt, and the final round of quilting.

Here are all my posts about hand quilting and Big Stitch quilting. I don’t use these techniques with fusible applique or Quilt As You Go, but I LOVE using Big Stitch Quilting with my cheater fabric.

Finished with this topic?

Return to the Let’s Make a Quilt main Table of Contents.

Move on to the lessons about binding and finishing your quilt.

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Trim and Assemble Your Blocks – Let’s Make a Quilt

Once you have all your blocks quilted, appliqued, and outlined – it’s time to trim them to size and sew them together into a quilt top!

Here are my posts about trimming quilt blocks.

And here are my posts about how to assemble Quilt As You Go Blocks

Finished with this topic?

Return to the Let’s Make a Quilt main Table of Contents.

Move on to the lessons about basting and final quilting.

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Outline Stitch – Let’s Make a Quilt

After you fuse all your pieces in place, you need to stitch around each piece. The fusible adhesive isn’t designed to hold without stitching.

Here are links to all my posts about outline stitching.

Finished with this topic?

Return to the Let’s Make a Quilt main Table of Contents.

Move on to the lessons about how to trim and assemble your blocks.

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Applique Your Blocks – Let’s Make a Quilt

This is my favorite part! I love seeing all the cute animals and faces come to life!

Here are links to all the posts showing how to applique with fusible adhesive – my favorite method. It’s fast and easy and (with the right materials) it holds up beautifully to rough use and repeated washing.

Here are links to special posts about eyes.

Here are links to some extra fun things you can do with your applique.

Other Applique Methods

Finished with this topic?

Return to the Let’s Make a Quilt main Table of Contents.

Move on to the lessons about outline stitching.

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