Make Your First Hand Embroidery: A Girl with Hat

Gather a pattern or color printout, black red and maroon threads, a needle set, a cotton white fabric, tracing tools, bamboo embroidery hoop size 10, a clamp, stand, and scissors.

Spread the cotton fabric evenly and place the carbon sheet and pattern. Trace the outline with a ballpoint pen, keeping the pattern steady to avoid mismatch.

Learn to prepare embroidery fabric by placing it on a size 10 hoop, tightening the inner ring, stretching fabric evenly, and securing the hoop to the table with a clamp.

Thread the black thread, cut it to elbow length, insert it through the eye of the needle, and knot the opposite end to prevent the thread from pulling out.

Perform a back stitch by pulling the needle from the back and sewing to the previous hole, detangling knots from the back, tying an ending knot, and trimming the thread.

Learn to stitch a simple smiley using backstitch, drawing a circle with a coin center, adding black eyes and mouth, and yellow face, then knotting and submitting.

Complete the hat and hair pattern using the back stitch across the hat and hair, and finish each line with a knot to secure the embroidery.

Master hand embroidery techniques for forming hands, face, eyes, and eyebrows with careful edge work, back stitch outlines, and two methods for eye details using three and six strand threads.

Stitch the lips of the girl with red thread, threading the needle, knotting the thread, and tracing the lip line from the upper lip and lower lip toward the center.

Learn to tie a back knot in hand embroidery by inserting the needle into the stitched thread, forming a knot in the loop, and cutting the thread with scissors.

Create three embroidered roses using the woven wheel stitch and a center French knot. Alternate colors red and maroon, puffing each rose and finishing with center knots.

learn to create a french knot at the center with yellow thread and blue surrounding knots, then use a woven wheel stitch to form a rose; upload your project.