#stem stitch

FRONT)

I was originally going to make EVERYTHING embroidered but at the suggestion of a mutual made the scars patches.

The patches are made out of the leftover scraps of a previous shirt

The lettering and scars are both done with a back stitch

I had to make a little set-up to paint on the lettering. It's a shoebox with an extra piece of cardboard taped on top to hold the shirt still/even while I worked and it was annoying as hell trying to color match my blue.

I originally made my patches too small bc I didn't check the sizing while being worn so I had to rip out the patch and make new ones but I accidentally ripped a few holes trying to get it out. Those got mended really quick at the end.

SIDE)

The most 'fuck it we ball' out of all of them

No sketches, didn't rough in the design at all. I tried putting it on a hoop but t-shirts are stretchy and that didn't work too well.

I'd already centered the hoop though so I used pins to mark the border of where the hoop WOULD have been, removed it, and continued free-hand.

This text was a stem stitch (bc if I use only one stitch for an entire project i'll turn to dust). And since I was free-handing I was being really particular and would fix mistakes by painstakingly find my holes and unraveling mistakes instead of ripping out the thread.

BACK)

I made a digital mock-up of this bc symmetry was supposed to be important.

Considered 'sketching' it on with watered down acrylic but decided against it and committed to using stabilizer.

Generally followed the outer edge of lines to make sure the final design still took up the same amount of space, just resulting in thinner lines.

This design is primarily stem stitches, the tombstone flowers are made of french knots, and the frame flowers are made of lazy daisies.

OKAY SO THE THING WITH THE FRAME WAS I WANTED 3 ALTERNATING COLORS IN A SINGLE LINE. Taking what I knew about back stitch, I figured, you should be able to interlock multiple threads into the same stitch.