February is National Embroidery Month
Let's celebrate by trying something new!
- Share your favorite embroidery stitch.
- Pick-up a needle, thread and try embroidery.\
- Sketch out an original design and embroider it.
- Create an embroidery themed gift basket for a friend.
- Engage an artisan that embroiders and show them some love.
- Finish an embroidery project that has been living in the back of your studio.
- Experiment with new materials to embroider on
- Take inventory of your sewing boxes
- Find a new use for embroidery. If you usually stitch up pillows try visible mending.
- Buy a new cool tool.
- Join a stitcher’s group
- Experiment with new techniques.
- Try going rogue and embroider with no plan.
- Create a stitch sampler
- Keep a project near to work on while watching how-to videos.
- Have fun with a variety of threads such as floss, linen, cotton sashiko thread or wool
- Add embellishments to an embroidery project.
- Get out your button collection and add a few to a project.
- Organize your materials to awaken your desire to embroider :)
- Share one of your projects, this month, on social media and tag it #NationalEmbroideryMonth
creative visible mending on denim with Sashiko cotton thread and some organic stitching
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