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[jhameia]

Embroidery has been keeping me sane! My brother ordered a 200-color set for me off Lazada, which came with an extra hoop, some needles, a threader, and a janky little pair of scissors. It's my first time using a plastic hoop, and it's about 6 inches. With the larger range of colours, I could finally make the butterfly pea design I'd been planning on. My brother also had an extra clip-on desk lamp he got as a novelty from Japan, and it's light enough to clip onto the edge of a hoop, so that's nice too. I'm very happy with how the butterfly pea flowers turned out, especially the side-view. Next time for the frontal view, the flower base should be shorter, and I won't put in the veins since they don't show up well. The profile view, I need to get better at needlepainting so the flower base looks more natural.

I'm gonna try some serious needlepainting with the next project, and this time try for double-sided embroidery too! And with single-thread counts instead of using the whole 6 threads in the floss...

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Gorgeous!

[brainwane]

Oh that's amazing! How long have you been making embroidery designs?

Re: Gorgeous!

[jhameia]

Not long! I think I bought my first hoop and did my first design in 2016? But then I set it aside for a long time. Sometime last year my manager treated me to an embroidery class and we went together, and within the 3 hours of the class I was the only student to finish the design. That's when I realised I could make much smaller things in a shorter amount of time just to practice, so since then I've made a little robot,some fish, a Buddha head, and a tapir.

This one's my most ambitious piece so far, and I'm still trying to figure my way through making embroidery designs. I'm not a good visual artist to start with, and being a perfectionist gets in the way. I really would like to be able to do double-sided designs, and lesser-known flowers like this butterfly pea, but I'm not that creative! So just flexing here and there for now. But it's pretty soothing so I think I'll just have to keep it up.

[rosefox]

Wow, that's gorgeous!

[jhameia]

Thanks!