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How to Create Your Own Tablecloth

Creating things yourself

Instead of going out and buying everything why not just make them yourself. Today I am going to show you how to create your own tablecloth. No it does not have to be perfect, if you don’t try your will never know what you can do. So lets give it a go!

Things you will need

• Plain white material or in my case I used a piece of calico (cut to the size you prefer)
• Sewing embroidery thread
• Sewin needles
• Scissors
• A transfer or copy of picture of your choice

Lets get started

The above is just an example of something to copy to embroider

For my tablecloth I cut out a meter square of calico material, then I got a picture and traced over it onto my material. There are a couple of ways to do this. I used a lead pencil and got a small box and put a torch inside it and covereed it with a piece of glass or perspex. This will act as a light box.Thi

Then I placed my picture on the glass and then the material on top and traced the picture with a lead pencil. A word of caution. It may pay you to secure the material and pattern so it wont move with some masking tape, so you don’t have it moving all over the place.

I Put my picture in all four corners of the cloth. You could also put a section of the picture in the centre, the choice is entirely up to you.

Now for the fun part

The above pic is one corner of the one that I am still finishing off

I am embroidering mine. If you would prefer you could use texters, or even crayons. I prefer to use embroidery.

Whichever you choose I am sure it will turn out lovely outlining or filling in all the beautiful details to showcase your good work.

Edging on your cloth

Once you have done that you will want to finish the edging off. A simple way is you can turn the edges down then sew lace all the way around and you are finished. This will look great, remember to choose colours that will enhance your table cloth.

Second choice edging

This above pic will give you an idea of how to buttonhole around, turning the rough edges under

I will not pretend that this is easy it is not. I did a buttonhole stitch all the way around mine and then I used that edging to crochet my own lace edging. Which ever way you choose I am sure it will turn out great.

Have fun, I hope you will give this a try no matter which way you do it. And if you are not keen enough to make a tablecloth why not just make a small table runner or even a doily to get some practice first.

I would love to hear what your thoughts are on creating something like this yourself. This is something that you will have created with your own hands and no one else will have one like it

Namasté und einen entspannten Abend in die Runde 😂

[Stickmotiv von AHS Creation Studio]

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#Sewing #Embroidery #Surrealism

https://youtu.be/DA6_UO3s0u4

Here's a sneak peek of this month's freebie 🐈‍⬛🍃

Peep past freebies here: https://www.patreon.com/collection/527071

@fiberarts

#CrossStitch #Embroidery #Art #FediArt #MastoArt

I've spent much of today going through this incredible archive of work by British-Indian textile artist Surjeet Husain: https://surjeethusain.com/

If you’re interested in Indian embroidery — particularly kantha, phulkari, and mirror-work — this is a super-useful resource. (There are no instructions, but the photos are very clear.)

I found out about this via another South London artist, PiNS ( https://pinspired.com/ ) who I met at the Museum of Croydon many years ago. His work is very different, but also well worth a look.

#Embroidery #Kantha #TextileArt

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Okay given that my platypus embroidery updates got such overwhelmingly positive responses on Fedi (and offline) I'm considering making #embroidery to sell.

I want to know how much I might be able to sell embroidery for. Fedi, what would your budget be for e.g. a hand-embroidered piece you saw online/in a crafts fair?

(Feel free to reply if you wish to add any further perspectives!)

The subsequent #CrossStitch project is coming along nicely

#embroidery

Complete!

#embroidery

Half-done with this project. Took me only 10 months so far on and off work. Excuse the potato quality. I took it on my porch at 10pm when I was done with the section.

#birds #crossstitch #embroidery

I finished this little piece today. It's a gift for a person who kindly gave me all their #embroidery thread (after deciding to abandon the hobby) for free.

#mushtodon #mushroom

Embroidery done! I absolutely despise French knots, but aside from those this was a very relaxing project.

Time to sew the bag now!

#Embroidery

Why am I watching an impressive video on sewing?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/h6CbLigGk48

#Sewing #Embroidery

While I wasn't sleeping last night I was stitching.
One more flour sack dish towel for a Mastodon friend. Tomorrow I will look at the list and figure out where it's going.
#Embroidery

https://theconversation.com/a-brief-history-of-embroidery-and-how-to-get-started-yourself-288312

Oh, huh, this is the featured article on The Conversation UK today. Neat!

#embroidery

It's apparently #WorldCrossStitchDay, so here's where my #LongDogSamplers "Pandemic" is now. I started August 31 last year and now I'm about one quarter through.

#CrossStitch #embroidery

Chose to use my mini Prym iron for the first time rather than drag out and fill my heavy tanky beast. My gosh this little thing is incontinent! It dribbled and drooled everywhere on lower heat.

I bought it for seam pressing while quilt-block sewing but haven’t done that for a while.
#embroidery #sewing

Door het artikel in het FD blader ik nu door de scharencollectie van Ernest Wright, ambachtelijke scharenmaker uit Sheffield.

Daar verkopen ze onder meer deze handgemaakte borduurschaar in de vorm van een ooievaar. Oorspronkelijk ontworpen voor het doorknippen van de navelstreng. Nu wil ik ook een Ernest Wright-schaar. #embroidery

https://www.ernestwright.co.uk/product/stork-embroidery-scissors/

https://fd.nl/bedrijfsleven/1601821/nederlanders-redden-in-sheffield-het-ambacht-van-scharenmaker?utm_medium=social&utm_source=app&utm_campaign=earned&utm_content=20260813&utm_term=app-android&gift=3InOP (gratis te lezen voor de eerste 10 niet-abonnees)