I feel as if I’ve just hit the jackpot. I haven’t embroidered for years (decades, rather) and I thought I’d watch a video to refresh my memory (while I do some knitting…) You are an amazing teacher. I loved every minute of this wonderfu,l informative, relaxing video. I subscribed inmediately . Thank you for sharing your knowledge and outstanding skills as a teacher. It is truly appreciated. Wonderful! I loved your fluffy baby’s intrusion. He is beautiful.
Jackpot indeed! So much amazing information and an incredible instructor. The videos are top shelf. They are so well put together. I have been having a great time watching the videos. Your website, Patreon and Facebook page are wonderful resources. Thank you so much, Sarah, and crew, for all your time and hard work. I very much appreciate you all.
I'm always entranced with your tutorials. Thank you for your patience and calm! Looking forward to the next... I always love to see flossies cats join the party!
@@SarahHomfrayEmbroideryIf you are only using one color how is it that it looks like the long stitches are a different color and the couching stitches seem like they are a lighter blue?
I love the way explain everything for a beginner like myself and a professional like my mother.. we have learned so much from u thank you so much and we also love ur website and your freebies haha please please always keep up the amazing work and teaching us the way u do. I lost myself a lot during the pandemic and losing my hubby and daughter to the virus and ur videos really really helped me express myself the pain the love everything! Thank you With great love and admiration for your craft, Christina H in Pittsburgh Pa
Christina I'm so very sorry to hear of your loses over the past few years, I hope these videos help in a small way to divert you from what you've been through. How wonderful that you can share this past time with your mother though xx
You have been my knight and saving Grace. Have learnt a lot from you. I’m sure without going through your videos, climb towards producing something decent would more incline.
I acciidently posted my comment before I was finished lol but snyesy my nsme is Jessica and i was big into cross stitching but i decided i wanted to learn embroidery for a change and your videos are what taught everything i now know about embroidery. thank you for being a great teacher and making your videos easy to follow
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I have always felt hesitant and unhappy with my attempts at long and short stitch. So glad to know the correct way.
Awesome, thank you! I really liked seeing you do…sort of ‘proper’ embroidery, hands-free (not holding the hoop), one hand on top, one hand below. I will check out the pattern, but I really love fish, and say at 35:52, those look like little fishes, is that a twisted daisy stitch?
Your tutorials are so helpful for beginners. I want to embroider both flowers and some Anglo-Saxon filigree designs. I saw someone do a beautiful Sutton Hoo horse design by just couching gold thread.
This is really helpful! Clear, classic, and so mindful. Thanks so much. Oh, and I finally figured out the image is a peacock!! Was that a bowling pin? A snowman?…. 🤣😆😆😷👍
I've seen bakhara stitch in stitch tutorial books but never actually worked out how to do it. It's always described as being such a difficult stitch to master. Now I know that actually it's very straightforward. In advance of being able to start my Certificate course again I'm going to be making myself a sampler of the 6 required stitches and about the same again of the optional ones. The sampler will then go one to show every stitch I use or need in all 4 techniques. Your extremely clear teaching and worked examples of each one is going to be a tremendous help, especially when I have to use stitches I'm not sure about. Ginger cat definitely believes his 'bath Tim's is right in the middle of your demonstrations. If he were a girl, I'd call him a bit of a diva. It's always lovely to see both him and Pinky.
Sarah you are awesome. Thank you for sharing with us. I would really really love to see you do the peacock that you did in the video where you showed us how to frame our work. I would also love to know what type of fabric you used. Thank you for all your hard work at keeping us informed on all types of embroidery.
Thanks for watching and supporting our channel Sheila! The peacock probably isn't going to make it into a video I'm afraid as I'm sure you can understand there is quite alot of stitching in it! I might have a look at a smaller version though... The peacock was worked on a fine silk and in this video the peacocks are worked on one of our Bio-washed soft cottons.
Thank you so much, it's really hard to find good... application? advice. Watching other tutorials is just... I durno. I can't seem to make what they do happen in real life, ya know? This was so helpful. I'm trying to figure out how to straighten out my satin stitch for plushy faces and it's been really frustrating trying to figure it out with now real helpful advice.
Awesome! I'm wondering if you'll be finishing the peacocks further? If so we'd love to see them somewhere I'm sure. As always, informative video. The sounds of embroidering & your cat were bonuses on this one too 😊
Loved this Sarah - I learned some tips from the Satin Stitch that I was unaware of. Whilst I always start in the middle of a piece diagonally, I never knew that when returning to the middle to do the second half, that you change direction, thank you so much for that. I found the Bokhara Couching really effect, I hadn't heard of this stitch before, but it will be one I will certainly look into. Thank you Sarah.
These stitches add great movement and texture to a design. I was wondering what would look best for a large flower pot fill in and these give me wonderful possibilities.
I love this whole vid. It is so relaxing. Will be watching it again and again until I've gathered all the materials : ) xx Thank you so much Sarah and kitty darling : ) xxxx
I painted the peacock outlines with gold paint Stephanie, but sometimes I use a water soluble pen or a permanent fine liner depending on what I'm stitching. Check out my 'Five ways to transfer a design' video!
You are amazing and so relaxing to watch work. I want to do some embroidery on a baseball cap. Seen one in a book for sale .Do you have any suggestions? Cant put it in hoop and its awkward to hold. / I am a beginner. May not be a good place to start my embroidery skills. LOL;)
I think you will have to do this in your hand Debbie if you want to stitch straight onto the cap, otherwise make it as a patch then sew the patch on. I suggest the latter and practicing a small piece of embroidery first!
Hello, how is everything? I got to know your channel and fell in love… I watched several videos and they are great, I came to a video that you teach us to pass like a string (something thicker) when we are embroidering and need to pass it down… no you can see it right, for those of you who embroider beautiful, you know and have a lot of skill it should be something very simple… but I can't… could you help me? I don't speak your language, sorry I'm in the translator.😉
@@SarahHomfrayEmbroidery Good morning and thank you for replying, can you believe that I stayed all yesterday afternoon on your channel to see if I could find this finish and in the video you made a golden kite (I don't know if it's called that, that object that children drop in the wind) and there you can see how you pull the string down… I've already saved it to my favorites. once again thank you very much for your attention. Have a good week😘
Before seeing this, I'd have thought the block shading was blocks of satin stitch so clearly there's some distinction I'm missing. I'm pretty sure I remember hearing a bit at the start in which you said you'd explain later why satin stitch was best worked diagonally, but I was interrupted a few times while watching the video, so now I'm thinking I must have missed it.
The 'popping' noise serves a purpose Erin! It helps you to know what sort of noise you should be expecting to hear; pops are good, it means you have the right needle/thread combo. Any other noise is not good as it means you have the wrong combo and you need to change something about the way you are stitching!
They might sit nearby but they don't sit on the threads or the stitching Paula! These things get sttiched qucikly so they are soon wrapped up and in the embroidery drawer...
I feel as if I’ve just hit the jackpot. I haven’t embroidered for years (decades, rather) and I thought I’d watch a video to refresh my memory (while I do some knitting…) You are an amazing teacher. I loved every minute of this wonderfu,l informative, relaxing video. I subscribed inmediately . Thank you for sharing your knowledge and outstanding skills as a teacher. It is truly appreciated. Wonderful! I loved your fluffy baby’s intrusion. He is beautiful.
Thank you!
I luvvv the sound of thread popping through cloth! It’s like a lullaby.
Thanks for starting in the middle and go inside to get the thread up- a tip from you❤
What a marvelous teacher you are! Beautiful work; thoughtful presentation; grace in action!
Thank you Frances!
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I usually watch your videos with a cat on my lap so I for one don't mind the bonus cat content. 🙂
I loved the bokhara couching, really effective. Always nice to see Ginger cat make a cameo apperance.
Delighted, I just found you and subscribed, taking up embroidery to help quit Smoking, very much a big inner, thank you for being there, XXXX
Welcome onboard Eithne!
Thank you!
Helpful to know to use the slant with threads and needle on a slant too! Thank you!❤ u
Wow nyc mem
I've embroidered for many years, but during this lockdown in NZ, I've been watching all your videos and I've picked up so many tips. Thanks so much.
Thanks for watching all the way from the other side of the world Ruth! Glad you are enjoying...
This is the best demonstration for satin stitch I have seen. So many useful tips that I didn’t know. You are a wonderful teacher. Thank you! ❤
Jackpot indeed! So much amazing information and an incredible instructor. The videos are top shelf. They are so well put together. I have been having a great time watching the videos. Your website, Patreon and Facebook page are wonderful resources. Thank you so much, Sarah, and crew, for all your time and hard work. I very much appreciate you all.
Thank you Leah! X
I'm always entranced with your tutorials. Thank you for your patience and calm! Looking forward to the next...
I always love to see flossies cats join the party!
Your assistant is very handsome and I imagine very clever. Great video, thank you
And always in the way! :)
great
I can’t stop watching this beautiful video
Another fun chat to listen to while I hand quilt a couch throw! Thank you for posting this video and for all that you do!
Watching this video has really helped me to decided the type of stitch I want to use to fill my design in.
the bokhara couching made me gasp once i saw what you were doing, that's going to be a popular one in my work from now on!!
You can make all sorts of pretty patterns with it Jamie!
@@SarahHomfrayEmbroideryIf you are only using one color how is it that it looks like the long stitches are a different color and the couching stitches seem like they are a lighter blue?
I love the way explain everything for a beginner like myself and a professional like my mother.. we have learned so much from u thank you so much and we also love ur website and your freebies haha please please always keep up the amazing work and teaching us the way u do. I lost myself a lot during the pandemic and losing my hubby and daughter to the virus and ur videos really really helped me express myself the pain the love everything! Thank you
With great love and admiration for your craft,
Christina H in Pittsburgh Pa
Christina I'm so very sorry to hear of your loses over the past few years, I hope these videos help in a small way to divert you from what you've been through. How wonderful that you can share this past time with your mother though xx
I need to go through all your videos. The best presentation I have seen on CZcams. Not only good video but your voice is perfect.
You have been my knight and saving Grace. Have learnt a lot from you. I’m sure without going through your videos, climb towards producing something decent would more incline.
WoW
I do like the couched peacock.
Looks like a peacock. Thanks, I've been looking for ideas for a peacock.
Some can do and some can teach, you my friend are both. Thank you so much for sharing your talent. 🫂
I absolutely love your videos! a few months ago i decided i wanted to learn embroidery. I was big into cross stitch
Loved this video- the colours, choice of stitches and the presentation.
Thank you Sarah! I’m a beginner and this video added more to my process of learning. I loved it
Thank you the filling stitches video has really helped. I especially loved your ginger helper.
Love watching you work. 👍🏻
You are the best I learned a lot from you thank you so much
thank you Ahmed!
Thank you Sarah. You make the best tutorials, I’ve learnt so much from your channel ❤️
Thank u 🙏 for ❤️ly presentation
Super video. QUESTION: Is there a rule of thumb for the longest you should go when working satin stitch? Perhaps 2 inches or so?
Your videos are quite inspiring Sarah. And here is yet another example. Two thumbs up 👍 👍 from me.
Thanks Barbara!
I acciidently posted my comment before I was finished lol but snyesy my nsme is Jessica and i was big into cross stitching but i decided i wanted to learn embroidery for a change and your videos are what taught everything i now know about embroidery. thank you for being a great teacher and making your videos easy to follow
Thank you Jessica!
Thank you. You have given me some much needed confidence to forge ahead and give this a try again. Love your helper too.
Learn few tips in satin stitch. Really appreciate it! Thank you Sarah 😊😊
Excellent!
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I have always felt hesitant and unhappy with my attempts at long and short stitch. So glad to know the correct way.
Check out our Pansy videos as well Robyn for a much more detailed explanation of this technique
You make it look so easy and explain so well THANK YOU 🪡🧵❣️
Ty , kitty so cute. Very good teaching.
Awesome, thank you! I really liked seeing you do…sort of ‘proper’ embroidery, hands-free (not holding the hoop), one hand on top, one hand below. I will check out the pattern, but I really love fish, and say at 35:52, those look like little fishes, is that a twisted daisy stitch?
Thanks!
Thank you Janice x
You are marvellous:)
You make it simple thank you
I love this
You are such an amazing teacher - I really enjoy watching you stitch and thank you so much for sharing your wonderful knowledge!
OMG I just love you!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ so glad to have found you.. I love your Patreon❤❤❤❤🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Lovely video, really makes me want to pick up embroidery!
Your tutorials are so helpful for beginners. I want to embroider both flowers and some Anglo-Saxon filigree designs. I saw someone do a beautiful Sutton Hoo horse design by just couching gold thread.
You are the greatest!! Thank you so much💓💓
Thank you Sarah
This is really helpful! Clear, classic, and so mindful. Thanks so much. Oh, and I finally figured out the image is a peacock!! Was that a bowling pin? A snowman?…. 🤣😆😆😷👍
Lovely tutorial. Many thanks! 👍👍❤️❤️
Another great tutorial, thank you so much Sarah!
Thankyou
why do you always start with a couple small, random stitches first? love this video btw!
Thanks you for sharing
Loved the clear instructions
Love your embroidery😁💖
Very helpful tutorials. I'm a beginner and would like to know about your stand that's holding your fabric.
www.sarahhomfray.com/myshop/prod_4538062-Versatile-table-clamp.html
So beautiful 💓💓
I've seen bakhara stitch in stitch tutorial books but never actually worked out how to do it. It's always described as being such a difficult stitch to master. Now I know that actually it's very straightforward.
In advance of being able to start my Certificate course again I'm going to be making myself a sampler of the 6 required stitches and about the same again of the optional ones. The sampler will then go one to show every stitch I use or need in all 4 techniques. Your extremely clear teaching and worked examples of each one is going to be a tremendous help, especially when I have to use stitches I'm not sure about.
Ginger cat definitely believes his 'bath Tim's is right in the middle of your demonstrations. If he were a girl, I'd call him a bit of a diva. It's always lovely to see both him and Pinky.
I am still usually filming at cat feeding time Carole!
Sarah you are awesome. Thank you for sharing with us. I would really really love to see you do the peacock that you did in the video where you showed us how to frame our work. I would also love to know what type of fabric you used. Thank you for all your hard work at keeping us informed on all types of embroidery.
Thanks for watching and supporting our channel Sheila! The peacock probably isn't going to make it into a video I'm afraid as I'm sure you can understand there is quite alot of stitching in it! I might have a look at a smaller version though...
The peacock was worked on a fine silk and in this video the peacocks are worked on one of our Bio-washed soft cottons.
Just discovered your site - great info, have subscribed! :)
Thank you so much! X
Thank you so much, it's really hard to find good... application? advice. Watching other tutorials is just... I durno. I can't seem to make what they do happen in real life, ya know? This was so helpful. I'm trying to figure out how to straighten out my satin stitch for plushy faces and it's been really frustrating trying to figure it out with now real helpful advice.
Awesome! I'm wondering if you'll be finishing the peacocks further? If so we'd love to see them somewhere I'm sure. As always, informative video. The sounds of embroidering & your cat were bonuses on this one too 😊
One more video on the peacocks coming Moth!
Loved this Sarah - I learned some tips from the Satin Stitch that I was unaware of. Whilst I always start in the middle of a piece diagonally, I never knew that when returning to the middle to do the second half, that you change direction, thank you so much for that. I found the Bokhara Couching really effect, I hadn't heard of this stitch before, but it will be one I will certainly look into. Thank you Sarah.
Changing sides for the satin stitch is a game changer SallyH!
These stitches add great movement and texture to a design. I was wondering what would look best for a large flower pot fill in and these give me wonderful possibilities.
Do try them out Donna!
I love this whole vid. It is so relaxing. Will be watching it again and again until I've gathered all the materials : ) xx Thank you so much Sarah and kitty darling : ) xxxx
Nice ❤️❤️👍👍
Sarah what is the best stitch to use sewing the edges together using Felt fabric?
FANTASTICO GRACIAS
What type and size of needle did you used? Im curious😂❤
First video of yours that Ive watched... What type of pen is it you use? Is it washable or do you not mind as you stitch over it?
I painted the peacock outlines with gold paint Stephanie, but sometimes I use a water soluble pen or a permanent fine liner depending on what I'm stitching. Check out my 'Five ways to transfer a design' video!
@@SarahHomfrayEmbroidery thanks for the reply! I've been slowly making my way through your videos!
Thank you very much for sharing your skills with us. Awesome videos!! Can u please tell which fabric u r using here? Many thanks in advance!!
It's this fabric here Mina!:
www.sarahhomfray.com/myshop/cat_1695132-Cotton-fabric.html
You are amazing and so relaxing to watch work. I want to do some embroidery on a baseball cap. Seen one in a book for sale .Do you have any suggestions? Cant put it in hoop and its awkward to hold. / I am a beginner. May not be a good place to start my embroidery skills. LOL;)
I think you will have to do this in your hand Debbie if you want to stitch straight onto the cap, otherwise make it as a patch then sew the patch on. I suggest the latter and practicing a small piece of embroidery first!
What type of fabric are you using? Love the bokhara couching.
It's one of our bio-washed cottons Julie:
www.sarahhomfray.com/myshop/cat_1695132-Cotton-fabric.html
Sarah, what needle size are you using in this demo?
Wow what to say
Hello, how is everything? I got to know your channel and fell in love… I watched several videos and they are great, I came to a video that you teach us to pass like a string (something thicker) when we are embroidering and need to pass it down… no you can see it right, for those of you who embroider beautiful, you know and have a lot of skill it should be something very simple… but I can't… could you help me? I don't speak your language, sorry I'm in the translator.😉
Hi Vera, If you can send me a link to the video you mean I can try and help you. Just copy the link and email it to me at sarahhomfray@blueyonder
@@SarahHomfrayEmbroidery Good morning and thank you for replying, can you believe that I stayed all yesterday afternoon on your channel to see if I could find this finish and in the video you made a golden kite (I don't know if it's called that, that object that children drop in the wind) and there you can see how you pull the string down… I've already saved it to my favorites. once again thank you very much for your attention. Have a good week😘
Hello. What brand of clamp do you use to hold your work?
This one here Jasper:
www.sarahhomfray.com/myshop/prod_4538062-Versatile-table-clamp.html
Why do we start in the middle instead of working say, left to right?
great video! is this difficult when you hold your hoop?
It's a bit harder if you hold your hoop, it's better to have it in a clamp and work with two hands if you can Amy
Before seeing this, I'd have thought the block shading was blocks of satin stitch so clearly there's some distinction I'm missing. I'm pretty sure I remember hearing a bit at the start in which you said you'd explain later why satin stitch was best worked diagonally, but I was interrupted a few times while watching the video, so now I'm thinking I must have missed it.
Block shading is rows of Satin stitch Laura, now I will have to watch it again to see if I said something different!
@@SarahHomfrayEmbroidery Thanks! You probably did say that and I just missed it.
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Hola! sos muy grosa!
Sarah where do you get the frame your using to hold your fabric please?
We sell them on our website here Debra:
www.sarahhomfray.com/myshop/cat_264747-Embroidery-Equipment.html
Thank you, I was wondering the same thing
How do you get to the free page?
I wondered why I can never keep my satin stitches at the correct angle. They always want to straighten out.
You are coming up the wrong side then Heather! Just swap sides if they start to do this and you should find yourself on the right track again
@@SarahHomfrayEmbroidery Thanks. I didn't know that could make a difference.
I am a beginner. Your tutorials are brilliant. But I find the pop pop pop of every stitch SO annoying. Sorry!
The 'popping' noise serves a purpose Erin! It helps you to know what sort of noise you should be expecting to hear; pops are good, it means you have the right needle/thread combo. Any other noise is not good as it means you have the wrong combo and you need to change something about the way you are stitching!
How do you keep your cat's hair out of your work?
They might sit nearby but they don't sit on the threads or the stitching Paula! These things get sttiched qucikly so they are soon wrapped up and in the embroidery drawer...
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All videos are improved by the appearance of a cat.
What type and size of needle did you used? Im curious😂❤