Jul
6
Free Tibet Denim Jacket
FINALLY!
Sorry this took so long but I managed to hurt my back and I was so sore I couldn’t even cross stitch! My partner knew there was really something wrong with me when I ignored the stitching.
So here’s my cross stitch contribution to the Free Tibet creativity movement sweeping the globe at the moment (check out the poster art featured on Groundswell). And my contribution to the Free Tibet XStitch Competition.
And here’s the pattern if anyone wants to use it. Click on the image for a pdf pattern with colour guide and cross stitch instructions.
I also promised earlier to give a bit of a tutorial on how to use waste aida fabric to cross stitch directly on to fabric. So here’s a couple of pics to show how I did it.
The first thing you need to do is secure the aida fabric to your chosen fabric. You can either tack the corners with some stitches which you can remove later. Or you can hold the two pieces of fabric together with an embroidery hoop.
I forgot to take a photo while I was still stitching but I used a hoop to secure the aida fabric to the jacket. I’m sure you can use your imagination as to what it would look like.
Once you’ve finished stitching, remove the hoop or stitches and then trim the aida fabric as close to your stitching as possible.
Then you carefully pull all the threads out, starting from the edge.
I also try and cut the aida between letters where there was a bit of room so there was a bit less to pull through.
My advice is to not pull to hard on a thread if it’s really tight, just move on to another section. Sometimes when you’re stitching you can accidentally stitch through the aida so it’s best to leave those threads until the end to deal with. The last thing you want to do is break one of your stitched threads!
In the end it will look like this
Hopefully that’s useful for you readers out there. I reckon it’s a great way to embellish clothes and bags and other things you carry/wear around. Use your imagination, there is a billion things to stitch on if you think about it hard enough!
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