Category: Embroidery

Zodiac Embroidery

Here’s an easy beginner embroidery project that celebrates your favorite constellation. Follow along to see how I made this classic constellation and also this glowing version made with LEDs and conductive thread.

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For this project, you will need:

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Glowing Birthday Cake Embroidery for Estefannie

Here’s a birthday present I made for my friend and fellow YouTuber Estefannie. It’s an embroidery I designed with some of her favorite things, as well as some electronics to play sound and light up the birthday candles.

Last year Estefannie and I found out our birthdays are only a day apart, so naturally, we decided to do a youtube collab to celebrate and make each other gifts. I knew Estefannie moved into a house not too long ago, so I decided to make something to help decorate all that new wall space. Embroidery is a natural choice for me, but this time I used a computerized embroidery machine instead of doing it by hand.

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Embroidered Portrait – Randy & Jenn

I embroidered this portrait of my friends Randy and Jenn as a wedding gift!

An embroidered portrait of the happy couple is a perfect wedding gift! I made this one for my friends Randy and Jenn and would like to share the process with you (with their blessing).

An important part of this project is selecting the right type of stitch and line weight for different parts of the portrait. If you are an embroidery beginner, check out our free Instructables Embroidery Class, written by master stitcher Jessy Ratfink, to get you up to speed on the fundamentals.

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I was inspired to make this piece by seeing Brenna Allsuch’s beautiful embroidered portrait of a curly-haired couple. Check out her Etsy shop!

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Cat Portrait Patches

RIP Beatrice, 2000-2017

I made embroidered patches to memorialize my cat, Beatrice. You could use this technique to create an embroidered patch from any image, really. I’m going to walk you through the things that I did, but there’s a bunch of different tools you could use instead for each step to arrive at a similar result (like tracing directly from the computer screen like in my similar 2008 ‘ible).

For an excellent introduction to embroidery, try Jessy’s free embroidery class.

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Light-Up Angler Fish Embroidery

This is a very simple FLORA project with no soldering– a single NeoPixel lights up on an embroidered angler fish on a pair of shorts. The main board is stitched on the front of the design, in the belly of the fish. A snap is used on the fin as a digital switch, triggering a color change in the pixel in the angler’s lure. Follow the circuit diagram to stitch up this circuit, and tuck the battery in the pocket.

Project created with assistance from Risa Rose, portraits by Collin Cunningham

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Sparkle Skirt

Make clothing that lights up when you move! This is a sewing (no soldering) Flora project using 12 color-changing NeoPixels and the Flora accelerometer/compass module. Spikes in the sensor readings cause the pixels to flash, and sparkle. The pixels are sewn to the skirt’s lining and are diffused by the outer layer of fabric, whether it be a sheer overlay or a cutout lace design.

If a skirt doesn’t appeal to you, use this circuit and code on a hat, a belt buckle, and even a blinky dog collar.

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Ohm Sweet Ohm Cross-Stitch

It’s a resistor chart you cross-stitch yourself! I designed this x-stitch pattern for a now-discontinued kit I put together for Adafruit. The finished design fits perfectly in a frame measuring 8″x10″ and takes about 40 hours to complete. You can download the free PDF pattern/instructions right from this page:

Ohm Sweet Ohm x-stitch pattern and instructions PDFDownload

The design files are also posted on Thingiverse, and here:

Ohm_Sweet_Ohm_Cross-Stitch_KitDownload

If you’re new to the craft, you can learn to cross-stitch with my free tutorial.

Materials and tools needed for the Ohm Sweet Ohm design:

  • E385 GOLD (3 yards)
  • E168 SILVER (3 yards)
  • BLANC WHITE (5.25 yards)
  • 168 LIGHT GREY (2.25 yards)
  • 550 PURPLE (2.25 yards)
  • 322 BLUE (2.25 yards)
  • 163 GREEN (3.75 yards)
  • 444 YELLOW (3.75 yards)
  • 608 ORANGE (4.5 yards)
  • 666 RED (4.5 yards)
  • 938 BROWN (3 yards)
  • 310 BLACK (14.25 yards)
  • 317 DARK GREY (12.75 yards)
  • 950 TAN (4.5 yards)

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