Daygown Sew Along - Lesson Five

Follow your embroidery instructions on your pattern and refer to your embroidery design.

We are going to Embroider View  2 of  OFB Embroidered Raglan Daygowns.

Good Morning!!  Today we will stitch the Embroidery.  You can embroider the top only or the top and the hem design.  You will need either 10 Sharp or Crewel needles.  And your embroidery floss. Use one strand of embroidery floss.  I am stitching tone on tone.  I think the look is elegant.  It does not show up as much as would a color that is different than your fabric.  You might decide to use a different color.  If you are a beginner, tone on tone doesn't show up your mistakes as much!  This is all a personal decision (the hardest part).  Sometime I really am not sure until I start embroidering with a certain color, so you might want to start on a fabric scrap to see how you like it.

Information about  Hoops!

I don't use a hoop on any of the embroidery stitches we are working today.  If you like to use a hoop , that is fine to do.  However, you need to work your project a little differently.  You would need to draw your pattern onto your fabric (along with your embroidery design) in the beginning instead of cutting it out.  You would need to do this so you can have the room on the fabric for the hoop.  So today, since we are all cut out, you will have to be hoopless like me!

There are many ways to tie on to the fabric but  we are going to use  the Away Waste Knot .
Click Away Waste Knot to see how to Tie onto your fabric and also to tie off.

Ready to Embroider!  I am going to begin at the left side of my top embroidery design and work my way to the right.  The stitches used in this design are the Lazy Daisy stitch (the flowers and leaves), the Stem/Outline stitch (all the stems) and the French Knot (the flower centers and the dots at the hem.

For instructions, click onto Embroidery - French Knot and  Lazy Daisy and Embroidery - Stem/Outline stitch.

Question for Lesson Five:  Do you use a thimble to stitch?  If not, please try one!  It makes stitching faster!!

Stitch a little while and then join me for a very nice tea!

Buttermilk Pound Cake with Coffee ice cream. 

 English Breakfast tea to revive you after all that stitching!

Sunbonnet Babies
At four o'clock, the Babies three
Said, "Really, it is time for tea!"
So up they got, set off once more,
And wandered on along the shore.
But as the sun was getting hot,
They sat down in a shady spot.


From The Sunbonnet Babies by Eulalie Osgood Grover

All Designs Are Copyright Protected copyright 2010 Jeannie Baumeister