Joining the Hoop Cult

The prompt for the last day of #embroidermay was What’s Next and after making my crossstitch pieces fit the hoop prompts I decided to try hoop embroidery.

And here it is! I made a few changes – the biggest one was using DMC 304 for the red and DMC 725 for the yellow since the thread that came with the kit seemed too dark.

I had written that when I had tried embroidery before that I had trouble with tension but now I think it was more that I had trouble with making the edges even when doing satin stitch. I learned from doing this kit to outline with stem stitch but I’m still not sure if it’s better to start or end with the outline. I’m looking forward to trying thread painting as a fill in stitch since I still find it challenging to make satin stitch look good.

But over all I’m happy with how this came out. At Christmas I’m going to hang it on the edge of the white bookcases suspended from a checked ribbon.