Kseniia Guseva
@faimyxstitch

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Embroidery Tutorial: Basic Techniques for Beginners

by Kseniia Guseva @faimyxstitch

Learn how to use a hoop, thread, and needle to begin embroidering, with Kseniia Guseva

Embroidery can make everything from your empty wall to the hole in your sneakers that bit more beautiful. While it may seem intimidating at first, learning the basic steps of this ancient craft will open up a world of upcycling and patchwork possibilities.

Kseniia Guseva (@faimyxstitch) has been embroidering every day since 2016, creating stitchwork cityscapes—an interest shaped by the architecture of her hometown St Petersburg—as well as feeding her other passion: upcycling.

Here she shares a few basic embroidery steps to help you get started, from how to set up your hoop to the various ways you thread the needle, that will help you start your embroidery journey right. Learn more in the video below:

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