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Embroidering intricate patterns on fabric, though, entails extensive sewing skills and patience. Make sure you are comfortable with these needlework tasks before taking on this project and this instructional guide will help you from start to finish.
For this project you will need a sketch pad, pencil, threads of different types and colors , needle, sewing machine, and the garment to be hand embroidered.
How to Design Hand Embroidery on a Garment
1. Select the section on the piece of clothing where the embroidered design will be situated and decide the pattern that fits the space. It is advisable to start with a small design and increase it as you become more at ease with the process, than start with a huge pattern and end up with unfinished embroidery.
2. You can get embroidery patterns from craft books or the Internet. When you have skillful hands you can sketch out the pattern yourself. Study your chosen or self-constructed design carefully, visualize the end result, and practice sketching it again and again as you trace the design to get comfortable in moving your hand through it.
3. Start embroidering at the bottom and move your way up. Depending on the time you devote to the project, some patterns however small may take a few hours or even days to accomplish. Furthermore, performing hand gestures consistently for long periods of time will exhaust your hands and affect your design. Establish clear stopping points in the entire process so you can rest and ensure that the quality is consistent all throughout.
4. Monitor your progress. Ensure that your output is still matching up to your original design. Freehand embroidery is quite difficult to maneuver so the finished work may not always be perfectly identical to the original design. Likewise, you can modify the design to make it easier for you to apply it in the fabric. Sometimes you have to compromise between the accuracy of the output and the ease of doing it.
5. Add reinforcement to the finished work to be certain that the embroidery holds up during washing and drying. Create a buffer on the back side of the embroidered material using scrap fabric you may have around the house or purchased in specialty stores. To guarantee that it is secure you can apply this using the sewing machine.
