These top 20 common - and avoidable - embroidery mistakes are being reviewed and you'll know what to avoid before embarking on your next embroidery project.
1. Not Reading the Instructions
Always read the instructions. Incorrect formulas or embroidery straws are one of the most common pitfalls in using strands that occur when you skip reading the instructions. With the help of the kits, it can run out of thread before finishing the project. It may be different line thickness than this.
2. Choosing the Wrong Embroidery Fabric
Most forms of surface embroidery require a firm fabric foundation, often counting threads as 20 or more. Using an embroidery fabric with a lower thread count will result in poorly-formed stitching, though you can add stabilizers to create a better surface. A low, loose thread count is required for counted thread or drawn thread projects. This makes it easy to pull and move threads and create lacy stitches.
3. Selecting the Wrong Size of Needle
Using an embroidery needle too large for the project can be a fabric hole where the needle and thread can enter or exit. This may be the reason for the fabric. A needle too small may be difficult to thread and may cause unnecessary wear to the thread, resulting in unwanted "fuzzy".
4. Using a Sharp Needle Instead of a Ball-Point Needle
Use sharp needles, such as surface embroidery and scrub when the needle and thread need to peel off the fabric. When needles need to be pierced without threading through the threads of the fabric, use cut threads, pulled threads and hardeners as embroidery ball.
5. Starting and Ending a Thread With Knots
While not the worst mistake, it's best to avoid knots in any kind of embroidered project. Instead, start a new thread with a waste knot, knot away, or knit it back to a previously worked stitch. The knots cause unwanted bulk on the back of the piece, so the work doesn't fall flat when pressed or mounted. Also, when you inaugurate a project, the knots tend to work on their free.
6. Selecting an Embroidery Thread of the Wrong Thickness
Generally, coarse embroidery requires thicker embroidery threads for thicker lines and thinner stripes require more fine threads. Combine threads to create more dense strands and separate flosses in groups of single strands or strands for thin lines. Also, using a thread too thick for the chosen cloth can also create problems. The fabric threads are removed and shifts to adjust the thickness of the thread used, resulting in perforation.
7. Using Craft Thread Rather Than Embroidery Thread
Cheap packages (often called 6-strand floss or # 5 pearl cotton) sold in packages as "craft threads" are not for crafts projects such as friendship bracelets, macramas or kid crafts but for embroidery. The value of the artwork thread is much lower than the embroidered-quality thread. Craft threads are easy to shake and pill while working through the fabric. They may not be colorless and the color may bleed into the fabric during laundering.
8. Marking Your Fabric With a Regular Pen
It is best to use a water-soluble fabric marking pen, chalk chalk pencil or fabric pencil to mark your embroidery designs on your clothes. With regular pens (sometimes even labeled "permanent") handling or laundering, the blood may fall on the fabric or not be completely washed.
9. Using Heat Transfer Pencils Instead of Water-Soluble Fabric Pencils
Pencil and pen transfers are great for creating Iron On designs but they are permanent. This means that the marked lines need to be completely embroidered or they will show up on the finished project. If you would like to remove your pattern marks from your finished embroidery, make sure that you are using a water-soluble pen or pencil to mark the design of your fabric. When in doubt, check the pen or pencil on any scrap of fabric you are using to make sure it is washable.
10. Iron Transfers Are Fuzzy or Distorted
When using iron transfer (you bought or created with a heat transfer pen), blurred marks result when you slide the iron back and forth on the pattern paper. Instead, press the iron behind the pattern paper to transfer the marks. Then, always lift the iron while moving to another section.
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