Darning/Embroidery needle - It's arrived!

I'm feeling a little bit like 'Gollum' at the moment. Wandering around the house tightly clutching my newly acquired prized possession and stopping to stare and stroke it every so often - Yes I know it's sad isn't it? But I've already had a little play and it works, I wasn't sure if I'd ordered the right one, (more of that later) but no, it does the job perfectly.  For a beginner like me it has opened up a whole world of possiblilites.

Look what I've been up to.......

Drawing flowers........

and little houses......

.... and writing words!



All of these were completed free style i.e without tracing lines, sewing straight onto unbleached calico, but I am going to experiment with my 'Stitch and Tear' stabiliser at some point. I found I got the best results by keeping an even pressure on the foot of my machine with the needle moving quite fast and me moving the fabric quite slowly but continuously. Once I relaxed into it it was fine. I didn't use embroidery hoops (because I don't have any....yet) but I did try to keep the fabric quite taut as I moved it around.



'My precious'

It's the simple things that give us so much pleasure isn't it?

Caroline