Silk Ribbon Embroidery
Ribbon embroidery is amazing form of needlework allowing you to achieve unbelievable results quite fast and with a little skill and most important it’s a great fun and pleasure.
Ribbon embroidery is very calming and inspiring. Every twist of ribbon brings you new ideas and makes you to want to do more and more… to create more beautiful pictures and use them on your usual things like make-up purses, handbags, clutches, glasses-holders, cushions, table mats, etc…
There are as many variations to stitches used in ribbon embroidery as there are designers who use them. The size of the stitches and how they are used and the size of the ribbon will all have an effect.
Let’s make a Make-Up Purse. Take an old jeans and cut a pieces of the leg. Denim is quite firm fabric and will hold embroidery well.
I took 22 cm wide and 23 cm high x 2 pieces
2 pieces for the sides 3cm wide at the bottom and 2 cm wide at the top and 17 cm high
and the zipper 29cm long
One piece will be used for embroidery. You can choose any flowers you like. I chosen roses and here we go my embroidered piece is below.
First of all you will need to protect back side of your embroidered piece by covering it with any fabric of your choice
Stitch bottom front and back of the purse together
Attach the sides of the purse
Finish off the seams using the bias ribbon or cut it from the fabric of your choice as i did here
Turn your purse to the right side and it’s done
This will make perfect gift unique and exclusive
Try to make one yourself now…
For more tips and tricks Click here
Ribbon embroidery is very calming and inspiring. Every twist of ribbon brings you new ideas and makes you to want to do more and more… to create more beautiful pictures and use them on your usual things like make-up purses, handbags, clutches, glasses-holders, cushions, table mats, etc…
There are as many variations to stitches used in ribbon embroidery as there are designers who use them. The size of the stitches and how they are used and the size of the ribbon will all have an effect.
Let’s make a Make-Up Purse. Take an old jeans and cut a pieces of the leg. Denim is quite firm fabric and will hold embroidery well.
I took 22 cm wide and 23 cm high x 2 pieces
2 pieces for the sides 3cm wide at the bottom and 2 cm wide at the top and 17 cm high
and the zipper 29cm long
One piece will be used for embroidery. You can choose any flowers you like. I chosen roses and here we go my embroidered piece is below.
Fit the zipper and sew it in
Finish off the seams using the bias ribbon or cut it from the fabric of your choice as i did here
Turn your purse to the right side and it’s done
This will make perfect gift unique and exclusive
Try to make one yourself now…
For more tips and tricks Click here
