We are going back to an old craft with a modern twist in today’s post. I am trying out an embroidery kit in the hopes of creating an embroidery wall art hanging piece. Come along for my embroidery journey, and learn 5 easy embroidery stitches along the way.

I have been wanting to try out embroidery for a while now and thought it would be a great way to develop my hand sewing skills. I am yet to hone the skill of neat hand sewing, as you can see in my Breakfast at Tiffany’s inspired Eye Mask, but it is a skill I would like to develop.
With little experience with embroidery, I just wouldn’t know where to start. So, using an embroidery wall art kit is a great way to start learning this skill and getting a beautiful piece out of it.

Embroidery Wall Art Kit

Jenny Blair Kits on Etsy has some fabulous designs to try. There are some really modern and fresh designs, including the embroidery wall art “Ferns”. This is the design I am trying if you would like to try it out too. Taking the craft from old to modern, just makes it much more desirable and fun to complete, don’t you think? This is not a sponsored post, by the way, I just want to share my embroidery journey with you. Hopefully, this may inspire you to give it a go and get creative. As well as giving you a starting point with the five easy embroidery stitches.

Embroidery Wall Art:

I will take you through how I completed my embroidery wall art piece. As well as how you can complete this embroidery kit yourself, if you decide to purchase the same one.

To complete the art piece, you ideally need a pre-printed design or transfer your own design onto the chosen fabric. I haven’t mastered this yet, so will just use the pre-printed design included in this kit. But, I guess that is something to work on in the future, the embroider bug has well and truly caught me!

Jump to the bottom of this post for the Video version of this post. It may help following some of the steps in the project.

What you need:

To make this beautiful embroidery wall art, you will need the following items:
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• Embroidery Kit
• Embroidery needle
• Scissors*
• Separate sewing needle and cotton
• Ribbon
• Wall hook

What you get in the kit:

In any embroidery kit, you get all the items you require to complete the project.
In the “Ferns” kit, you get a wooden embroidery hoop, pre-print design on a square piece of material and embroidery floss. So, perfect for starting the embroidery project straight away!
The embroidery floss or thread, whatever you want to call it, comes neatly plaited/twisted in various colours. There are three colours in one strand, being jade green, dark green and medium green. In the other plait, you get a lime green and a medium green.

As well as the floss, you also get an embroidery needle and instructions detailing how to complete the project.
This includes which stitch to complete on each part of the design, with the corresponding colour thread. Further to this, if you are completely new to embroidery like I am, then there are details of how to complete each stitch with pictures to follow.

This kit is so well thought out and definitely helps a beginner stitcher get into the craft. I also found completing this so relaxing and therapeutic, as I found it helped with clearing my mind. There was nothing better than coming home from work and completing a few stitches to really take my mind off whatever had happened that day. So, if you are looking for something to maybe help you relax, as well as get a bit creative, I would try out a bit of embroidery!
Just to note, this project took me a few weeks to complete, as I was gradually completing the stitches a few hours a night. Sometimes I went a few days without stitching too. Embroidery is a slow process, but well worth the time and energy put in.

Anyway, enough about the kit, lets get crafting!

Mount the hoop and prepare to embroider:

The first thing to complete before starting the embroidery piece is to mount the material in the embroidery hoop. To do this, all you need to do is separate the two wooden pieces, placing the inner part down. Then, take the pre-printed design material and place this over the wooden hoop. Align this so that it is central, and place the outer hoop on top. Tighten and stretch the material over the hoop, and secure by tightening the top screw. You want the material to be taught in the middle of the hoop, a bit like a drum.
You may find that the material slackens as you embroider, so keep tightening the material as you go.

Organising the embroidery floss/thread:

Before attempting to embroider it is time to sort through the floss. To embroider with this, I found that splitting the thread in half made it much easier to sew with. As well as spread the floss out further, which is a must, if you are a bit clumsy like me and need extra pieces.

To split the embroidery floss, unwind the end slightly. You will see that there are six strands that make up the floss. Separate into three strands and gently pull these apart. The floss should be in unwinding and separating into two halves.

Thread the needle with the three strands going through the eye of the needle. Knot one end and leave a bit of the floss dangling. Always start the stitch on the back of the design, this will help to hide the knots created. There are other ways of starting and finishing with the floss, however, I found the knotting method the easiest.

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Now it is onto a bit of stitching.

Stitch 1 – Satin Stitch:

The next thing to do is decide which part to complete first. I chose to go for the lone leaf stem on the left of the design. Looking at the instructions, this is the satin stitch.

To complete a satin stitch, you take the needle and push it through the starting point on the design. This was at the edge of the stem of the leaf for this design. Then bring this up and create a small stitch, bringing it back down to the underside of the material. Then, bring the needle back up from underneath next to that first starting point, bringing it back down through the material at the second point.
Keep on in this fashion until the section is complete. The stitch length will vary throughout and be dependent on the section.

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Stitch 2 – Stem Stitch:

The next part of the design to complete is the stems of the two main leaves, which is a stem stitch. These are in different colours of jade green and dark green from the kit. I got the two mixed up and actually completed these the wrong way around. It hasn’t taken away from the design, but it is slightly different from the proposed design. It isn’t a crafting project until I do something wrong, it is all part of the creative process!

To complete the stem stitch, place the needle up through the design at the starting point of the stem on the design. Create a stitch, bringing this back down underneath. Then bring the needle back up in front of the starting point, keeping this to the right of the stitch. Create another stitch and repeat the process. This will give the design a slightly twisted look, and looks great on the stem of the leaf design. Some instructions say to bring the second stitch up through the middle, so you can decide which looks best for you.

Stitch 3 – Fishbone Stitch:

To complete these leaves for this part a fishbone stitch is required. The fishbone stitch is usually used to fill in any leaves, giving a really nice look to the leaf. It creates a ‘spine’ down the middle giving it that leaf look.

To complete a fishbone stitch, concentrate on one leaf at a time, knotting the thread off before moving onto the next leaf. Start by bringing the needle up through the tip/top of the leaf, creating a stitch down the middle. Then bring the needle up to one side of that starting stitch before bringing the needle down just past that second point. Repeat this, except bring the needle up next to the starting point on the opposite side, again forming the stitch to come down just past that endpoint. Alternate the sides until the leaf is complete. I hope that makes sense!
This will create diagonal type stitches that come into the middle, creating that leaf shape. Again, alter the length of the stitches dependent on the size of the leaf design.

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The fishbone stitch is used for most of this leaf design bar the top 6 leaves, where a different stitch is used to complete.

Stitch 4 – Straight Stitch:

For the final tips of the main leaf design, the straight stitch is used. This is a really easy stitch to complete. All you need to do is bring the needle up at the starting point, this is at the tip of the leaf, then bring it back down at the stem part of the leaf. Repeat until the area is complete. How easy is that?
I found this stitch very similar to the satin stitch.

Stitch 5 – Split Stitch:

Now, I have to admit, I think I did this stitch wrong. I think I completed another stem stitch instead of the split stitch. The two are similar, however, you get a completely different look. This sitch is needed for the two fern style leaf branches going up on the inside of the design. This is in the mossy green colour embroidery thread.

To complete the split stitch, start by bringing the needle up at the starting point. This is at the end of the stem. Create a stitch, bringing the needle back down underneath the material. The next point should come through the middle of the stitch and through the middle of the embroidery floss. Then, create another stitch past that first stitch. Repeat the process of bringing the needle up through the middle of each new stitch. The stitch should look similar to a chain.
Make the stitches smaller towards the top of the stem.

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To complete these fern type branches, more straight stitches are needed to fill in the leaves. Repeat as above until complete.

That is all the stitches required to complete the embroidery wall art, but the piece isn’t finished yet.

Final plant design:

The final part of the design requires straight stitches and satin stitches to complete. This is in the medium green and lime green colours. The stitches are blended slightly on the flower part of the design to give a really nice gradient to the flowers.

First, complete all the stems for the design, using the straight stitch. Once the stems are complete, it is time to create the ends of the flower petals (where the flower meets the stem), again with straight stitches. For some of these flowers, I did three straight stitches, one in the middle and one either side of this in a diagonal line. Some, I carried out a few straight stitches along the whole of the bottom of the flower, altering the length of these slightly.

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Then, switching to the lime green floss, complete a satin stitch to fill the flowers, Again, following the outline of the flower by altering the length of the stitches. Also, where there are three straight stitches, bringing the line green down in between these to create that graded look.

That is all the design stitching complete! How pretty does it look?

Finishing the Embroidery Wall Art

To finish the piece and make it more suitable for hanging, the material has to be trimmed. Re-centre the design in the hoop and tighten this. Then cut around the design, leaving about 2cm of material from the edge of the hoop. I used pinking shears/scissors to help reduce the material from fraying around the edges.

Stitch 6 – Running Stitch

Using a needle and thread, I chose black cotton, but you could use the leftover embroidery floss. Then weave the needle up and through the material, all around the edge, creating the running stitch.
When back at the start, pull on the cotton that is in the needle to gather the material up, this should bring the material inside the hoop, nicely tucked away. Secure with a few simple stitches and knot the cotton. I repeated this on several parts that I felt were not laying as flat as I would like.
The piece is then ready to hang.

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Use a picture hanging hook, or even a command hook to hang the embroidery wall art. My hook wasn’t deep enough, so I tied a matching piece of ribbon through the screw and hung the design from this hook.

There you have how I created an embroidery wall art piece using an embroidery kit. As well as five easy embroidery stitches to help you create your embroidery masterpieces!

What do you think of this design? Do you have any embroidery tips? Let me know in the comments below!

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