how to make a wrist cuff - faux wood & embroidered
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How to:
faux wood embroidered cuff
kootoyoo…click & stitch
• Embroidery floss, scrap of flooring vinyl, tiny nails, needle, press studs, some scrap paper & thimble.
Step 2:
• Cut a piece of scrap paper the same size as you want your finished cuff to be.
Step 3:
• Position the template onto your vinyl.
Step 4:
• Cut to size allowing a little extra “seam allowance” around the template piece.
Step 5:
• Draw your design onto the paper. You could use text or graphics or something random as I have.
• It’s important that your design doesn’t occupy the whole of the cuff space. • You should also be aware that you don’t want to have too many lines in your design
as each stitch will weaken the vinyl.
Step 6:
• Tape your design onto your vinyl cuff.
Step 7:
• Now it’s time to get to work with your nail & your thimble.• Some vinyls can be stitched straight through but creating this “lacing card style”
pattern just makes everything much easier & certainly reduces the number of tangles.
Step 8:
• Begin by inserting the nail at the junctions of your lines.• The nail should slide fairly easily through the vinyl.
Step 9:
• This is what your design should look like once you’ve made your intersecting holes.
Step 10:
• Now go back & fill in the gaps. Just use your eye. This isn’t time for your fanciest embroidery.
Step 12:
• Remove your paper design from your cuff.• See all those little holes? That’s your dot-to-dot.
Step 11:
• Now thread your needle with your chosen floss. • Use all six strands. This fills up the holes nicely.
Step 14:
• Begin stitching. You can use a backstitch as I have or another outline stitch of your choosing.
Step 15:
• It’s a good idea to tape the original design to the top of the cuff so that you’ve got something to follow…all those pin holes get pretty confusing.
Step 16:
• Once you’ve completed your outline you need to decide which shapes you want to fill.
Step 17:
• Then knock yourself out colouring with floss.• Texture & colour are things to consider here.
Step 18:
• Once you’ve finished all your stitching you need to attach your press studs at either end of the cuff.
Step 19:
• If you’d like to “shape” your cuff now is the time to do that.• I just loosely followed the line of the embroidered design.
Step 20:
• Your finished piece should look something like this.