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5 Free Downloadables to Celebrate Embroidery Day

by Domestika @domestika

Celebrate embroidery day with these 5 free downloadable tools. Get your needles ready and start creating your artwork.

1. Free Butterfly Embroidery Pattern

In the art of needle painting, a needle acts like a brush and the thread as the paint, helping you achieve hyper-realistic designs.You can create realistic embroidered pieces using the long and short stitch technique, just like Emillie Ferris, who makes contemporary embroidery patterns, kits, pins, and original hoop art using traditional methods.
You can learn realistic embroidery techniques from Emillie in the online course Realistic Embroidery Techniques.

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