Love is watching someone die.

my personal favourite embroidery book is the embroidery stitch bible by Betty Barnden, it has really good clear photographs and diagrams of hundreds of stitches. i don’t have any particular videos i watched but it i can’t understand a stitch just from diagrams i just do a general youtube search to see the exact method in motion. i know it sounds silly and annoying but practice makes perfect; and as i am a bit of perfectionist i do find myself unpicking and redoing a fair amount of stitches, lots of the pieces on my account were worked on over a long period of time with lots of do-overs in certain places. i hope this was helpful and made sense, it was really nice to receive this message and know that people like what i make. feel free to message me off anon and ask anything else you might like to know! :)

Hi! It’s really nice to hear that you’re interested in my work, can you message me off anon and explain in a little more detail what you’re looking for? Thank you!! 

i would say start with smaller projects as they are quicker to finish and i find the most satisfaction in completing a piece, so hopefully that will encourage you to keep going. i would also say that if you’re afraid of designing from your own art (which i definitely am) try and work from references or even try something like cross stitch as a way to get confident in basic technique before doing freehand work. i hope this is the kind of advice you were looking for!! xxx

There’s no harm in messing up! and the good thing about embroidery is you can unpick it and try again if you don’t like how it looks at first. It’s also good to note that i actually made the patch on a piece of separate fabric before i stitched it onto the shirt; so if you do it like that it won’t feel like you’re messing up the jacket while you sew!

to be blunt... not really. i’ve only made the one shirt and it was more a labour of love than anything else. it took me almost a full year of working on it in my spare time to get it finished and since i have a full time job now i don’t really have the time to make them on commission. sorry about that, and thank you! it’s always nice to know somebody liked something i made enough to want to buy one xxx

embroidered buttons

i don’t have an instagram account, but if you repost my photo you can link my tumblr, thank you xxxxx

i made the pretty. odd. design by using transfer paper that can be put through an inkjet printer. i found the highest quality image i could, cropped and resized it until it would fit on the back of a shirt and printed it on transfer paper. (i had to do it in two sections because the printer i used only prints A4) then i ironed the transfer onto a piece of white cotton and embroidered over the top, matching the colours as best i could. the embroidery itself is mostly just lots and lots of backstitch, but really close together. i’d go around the edge of a shape with backstitch and then do another line inside that line of stitches and just keep on going until each shape was filled. it’s pretty time consuming but i found it rewarding. when the patch was finished i trimmed the edges with pinking shears, folded them under and blanket stitched the patch onto the back of the shirt. i hope this was helpful to you and made coherent sense. thank you xxxxx

honestly, i have no idea, it’d probably have to be at least a couple if hundred pounds to justify the amount of time and thread spent on it but at the same time that sounds like an insane amount to charge for an old denim shirt i bought for £10 at a music festival clothes tent with some art i borrowed on the back. and then i’d be worried about copyright for selling a reproduction of another artists work for profit. like i know it’s highly unlikely anybody would bother to legally contest me but i’d worry about it anyway :/

go for it!!! i’m already borrowing artwork directly from the album cover, it should be okay under copyright law if you’re not making a profit and aren’t claiming to have designed it yourself and you’ll look hella rad too!!! thank you for saying you like my work so much because i crave validation from strangers, bye lovely xxxx

overall the embroidery took around 100 hours work, then it only took a couple more to sew onto the shirt, i’ve been working on it on and off since last november though, so it’s not like it was all in one go, and i took forever finding the right shirt to put it on. thank you very much!!! xxxxx

thank you very much!!!! xxxx

embroidered denim shirt, art taken from Pretty.Odd album cover designed by Alex Kirzhner

i have not sold any of my creations at present, but i would be willing to do so should there be enough demand

obviously they all have slightly different qualities but i personally find that all the stranded cotton brands i have tried over the years (and there have been a lot) are always a reasonable standard so long as they are a stranded cotton. in the embroidered peach emoji the threads used were mostly moonbrand thread which shows that multipack threads can be perfectly serviceable. i hope this was helpful to you! good luck with your embroidery xxx

thank you! it’s not often i get told shit like this and life kinda sucks atm so this was really nice to wake up to. ur cool af too pal xxxx