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  • Beginner Pottery Tutorial: How to Hand Build a Mug
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    Beginner Pottery Tutorial: How to Hand Build a Mug

    Learn the art of hand building mugs with simple tools and techniques Are you curious about hand building a mug from scratch? Whether you’re a pottery enthusiast or a complete beginner, this step-by-step guide will help you create a beautiful mug using just a lump of clay and minimal tools. Materials you need: A lump of clay A turntable or wheel Basic pottery tools

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  • Upcycling Tutorial: How To Create a Makeup Bag With Your Scraps
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    Upcycling Tutorial: How To Create a Makeup Bag With Your Scraps

    Turn your leftover fabric into a chic DIY makeup bag with this easy-to-follow free tutorial If you've ever finished a sewing project and found yourself with leftover material, don't toss those fabric scraps just yet! With a little creativity and some basic sewing skills, you can transform your leftover fabric into a stylish makeup bag. In this tutorial, we'll guide you through the steps to create a custom makeup bag using denim scraps. Not only is this project eco-friendly, but it also gives you a unique, personalized accessory.

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  • Sashiko Stitching Tutorial: Introduction to Hitome Zashi
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    Sashiko Stitching Tutorial: Introduction to Hitome Zashi

    Discover the traditional Japanese technique of sashiko stitching with expert tips from Kate Ward Sashiko stitching is a centuries-old Japanese embroidery technique that combines beauty and functionality, traditionally used to reinforce and repair fabric. Today, sashiko has evolved into a popular craft for creating stunning designs on textiles. In this tutorial, expert Kate Ward offers a sneak peek into her Zen Stitching course, where she guides you through the basics of sashiko, from threading the needle to mastering the running stitch.

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  • Embroidery Tutorial: Creating Abstract Landscape Step by Step
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    Embroidery Tutorial: Creating Abstract Landscape Step by Step

    Unlock your creativity with Anna Hultin’s artistic process for crafting beautiful abstract landscape embroidery patterns Are you ready to explore the art of abstract landscape embroidery? In this tutorial, artist Anna Hultin from Loveland, Colorado, guides you through the process of transforming simple sketches into stunning embroidery patterns. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced embroiderer, this step-by-step guide will help you harness your creativity and produce unique, visually captivating pieces.

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  • Illustration Tutorial: How to Add Embroidered Details to Your Paintings
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    Illustration Tutorial: How to Add Embroidered Details to Your Paintings

    Learn step-by-step from Josefina Jiménez how to add embroidered details to your acrylic floral paintings Beautiful floral illustrations are a great way to fill any environment with color and warmth. And if a floral painting is enriched with embroidered details, it comes to life even more. That’s why visual artist Josefina Jiménez often mixes techniques, such as watercolor, acrylic, and embroidery, to enhance the details of her compositions. In this tutorial, she teaches us how to make different types of stitches to achieve a variety of textures across different plants and flowers. Find out more in the video:

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  • Weaving Tutorial: Macramé Carpet Knot
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    Weaving Tutorial: Macramé Carpet Knot

    Learn how to make a carpet knot step by step following the loom tapestry technique with Belén Senra Loom tapestry techniques are useful for creating pieces of decoration. The carpet knot is one of them: its simplicity and versatility make it an ideal option for your macramé practice. The textile artist Belén Senra (@belensenra) teaches us how to make a carpet knot step by step, so that you can use it to decorate your macramé pieces. You can see the tutorial here:

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  • STEP BY STEP PATTERN: A guide to create your own embroidery designs.
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    STEP BY STEP PATTERN: A guide to create your own embroidery designs.

    A pattern is like a map, it shows us where the most important parts of our drawing are located, their textures, volumes and details. It helps us to better understand our reference and serves as a guide to embroider our project. Would you like to know how to make your patterns step by step? Here I share with you the process I use to create my own designs. STEP 1. LOCATE THE DARKEST AREAS Pointing out the darkest areas first when creating your pattern is critical for several reasons. These areas provide the contrast and depth needed for the design to stand out and be perceived clearly, it establishes a foundation to better distribute light and shadows throughout the design, and it helps us create a more realistic and detailed image. So look at your image and mark the blackest areas you can find. STEP 2. MARK THE MAIN ELEMENTS Before you go on to mark other areas of your reference, concentrate on tracing the main elements of it. If you are working with animals for example, this is the time to draw everything that makes your specimen special: it can be the most prominent beak, eyes and feathers if it is a bird; or the antennae, spots and wings if it is an insect. To differentiate those unique elements and avoid confusing them with the rest of the reference, you will need to mark each of them in detail, so take the time to do it. The more detailed your map is, the better you will be able to understand the embroidery. STEP 3. HIGHLIGHT THE CLEAREST AREAS Now that you have most of the elements of your reference marked, you are going to focus on the clearest areas of your image. Define where the lightest sections are, remember that we are not looking for gray areas, but the whitest you can see. Try to mark them very carefully and with a fine-tipped tool, since they are very light areas, we want them to keep their tone. STEP 4. CONTOURS Finally, we will concentrate on tracing the contours of our image. Personally, I recommend that you always do this step of the process with broken or separated lines. Doing it with continuous and thick lines could make it difficult to visualize correctly the lighter or thinner contours. Therefore, as a last step, create the most visible contours little by little and try not to mark them too much. And that's it! Your pattern is finally finished. If you still have doubts about the process of making your own patterns, you can download the free pattern making guide at the end of the article. In it you will find a step-by-step diagram to make your pattern. Remember that you can consult it whenever you need help to make your own embroidery sketches. If you want to know more about pattern making and learn about the technique of drawing with thread, I invite you to see my domestika course “Drawing with Thread” where we will do different exercises to understand how to realistically embroider a jaguar and it will also be full of many more tips. See you over there, beautiful person of the world! Ceci.

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