Blanket stitch

Basic Hand-Embroidery Stitches: 

Blanket stitch

What is Blanket stitch? The blanket stitch is a stitch used to reinforce the edge of thick materials. Depending on circumstances, it may also be called a whip stitch or a crochet stitch. It has both a catcher and decorative features. The stitch can be seen on both sides of the blanket.

How to do the Blanket stitch? Let’s go to try it now~

Material:  thread (red), needles, needle scissor, felt 

basic material

Firstly, thread on your needle and knot the thread tail end. Start by sending your front piece's felt by needle up from the back side (hide the tail knot inside the felt).

needle up from back

To complete your first stitch, bring your needle up from the back and then come out from the middle and it finish by pulling this stitch tight.

up from back to middle

Then send your thread from back to front,

back to front

pulling the thread until like the picture, 

pull the thread

then through the coil and tight it, 

needle go through the coil

so you can adjust the tightness.

adjust the tightness

Now you just continue each stitch step by step then you will finish on your way. 

continue the step until the end

Remember you can end out with the French knot, which is one of the finishing ways.

finish my blanket stitch

What is felt?

Welcome to Jessamy Crafts!!

Felt

What is felt? Felt is a non-woven cloth that is produced by matting, condensing and pressing woolen fibers  While some types of felt are very soft, some are tough enough to form construction materials. Felt can be of any color, and made into any shape or size.

several non-woven colors 

How to make felt crafts? Many beginners feel very difficult to make felt craft, actually making non-woven needle method is super simple, and nothing more than that is hand-stitched needle. It such as the Blanket stitch, Patch sewn, Running stitch, Backstitch, French knot and so on.

No matter the finishing felt product is how complicated and beautiful, basic technique stitches is only about six-seven kinds. Just the object became smaller, or craft requirements more carefully.

I specially produced and photographed some basic tutorial pictures, to learn together. Each tutorial have some pictures to show you the detailing, you may wish to try relearn a few times. This is a good lesson for Beginners like DIY non-woven.

First of all, we need to come out of the design concept. As new start, I want to build my facebook page panel, name Jessamy crafts, and it is close to Christmas, so I was inspired by the colors green, red, and brown. 

inspiration colors

So I start create design from my pc by choosing the font type and size,

create design

then print out. 

print design

now your design is on your hand, just try to cut out each alphabet, as the picture.

cut out printed design

then trace it one by one on your non-woven. I trace the letter in turn, to avoid seeing the pen's ink. You all can try to use Water erasable pen, so you not need to follow my way (I use normal ball pen). 

trace on felt

After that, cut out each alphabet from felt.

cut out design

You can see this is without ink on the surface. 

without ink on felt

so my design come out like this.

Jessamy crafts design