picture of an embroidered strawberry cake

closet up of prervious embroidery

As planned I finished it today, there wasn’t much left to do. I enjoyed pretty much all of the stitching a lot, except the strawberry itself. It’s not too bad but the fishbone stitch with a thick perled cotton over such a small surface wasn’t a good idea.
otherwise I am really surprised about the regularity of my stitches, it looks quite tidy. The point could be pointier and the overall proportions are a bit weird but, oh well.
Also one of the threads on the satin stitch is a bit loose and I am worried if it’s going to holdwith time, this is a shirt that may end up in the wash 😬
The pattern is made up of vibes and internet searches, feel free to steal it.

  • thegiddystitcher@lemm.eeM
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    8 months ago

    This is so cute, been watching you stitch it up over on Mastodon and you’ve got me eyeing up all these fancy stitches I still need to learn. Brb looking up what on earth fishbone stitch is lol, gotta add to my notes ✍

    The texture on the side of the slice reminds me of knitting!

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      8 months ago

      Here is one of my favourite stitching ressource: https://www.needlenthread.com/videos
      If you can do a half decent backstitch then you should try pekinese stitch (the outline of the plate).
      The sponge cake is made of bayeux stitch which is really fast to make ! But relies on satin stitch which is deceptively difficult.
      The knitted looking one is not quite a detached buttonhole filling, also sometimes detached blanket stitch.
      Also used: seed stitch, satin stitch and hungarian braided chain stitch.

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      8 months ago

      Not quite the cherry on top, but I agree, it was a bit empty without it. Let’s just say it’s an organic strawberry 😅