What a fun idea! Embroider-along with this whimsical calendar pattern. Kelly from Craft Your Style offered a hand drawn design for a January calendar page, complete with a tutorial for the three basic embroidery stitches used — the running stitch, the french knot, and the backstitch.Â
The Running Stitch: this is basically making dashes along your paper board or fabric, going under and over the fabric, making stitches that are about 1/3 inch or 1 cm long. Easy peasy.
The French Knot: tauted as the most beautiful embroidery stitch ever, this embroidery stitch is made in 3-4 steps: a) Poke up through the spot you want to create a french knot. Â In one hand, pull the thread coming though the paper taught and in the other hand, hold the needle. b) Wrap the needle around the thread 2-3x. c). Â Close to where the thread came out, poke the needle back through the paper/fabric.
d) Pulling the needle/thread through until a little knot is emerges! So cool. It’s easy but it requires you to practice a couple of times. Tip: if you can’t get this stitch right, just make little x’s instead. Anyone can do this.
The Backstitch: this embroidery stitch makes a solid line an is created as follows: a) Make a little knot at the back and pinch the needle up through the paper and go over, under, and come up again. Â b)Â To fill in the gap created, go back to the last stitch made, and poke the needle through it about 1/4 way though. Â Repeat this process by coming up to make a stitch again and then filling in the gap. I learned this in Kindergarten, I think, so I’m sure you can figure it out!
Tip: Use this idea and design your own calendar for the coming year. I would make the calendar modular and re-usable. So I’d embroider a top section, with the bottom section to be added fresh, month by month. Alternatively, you can make it a perpetual calendar by just giving the Weekdays rather than the days of the month.
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