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Realistic Thread Painting - Embroider a Butterfly
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Suitable for intermediate learners. Works well as a continuation after mastering Crafts & DIY fundamentals. It bridges the gap toward advanced, production-level engineering.
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What You’ll Learn
- Thread painting is a style of embroidery that uses the long and short stitch to blend colors together similar to painting. This technique makes it possible to create life-like embroidery art..
- This class shows you the entire process from start to finish of how to create a realistic-looking thread painting of a butterfly. It will be helpful to have some experience with hand embroidery for this class..
- In this class you will learn:.
- First, you'll learn some thread painting basics and then we'll cover some tips and tricks to keep in mind while you're learning and stitching..
- Then, I'll walk you through how to pick out a good reference photo and how to mark out a stencil so that you can use these skills for the next time you thread paint..
- Finally, we'll get started stitching the butterfly. I'll break down all of the different aspects of the embroidery into actionable, bite-sized steps..
- Your challenge is to complete the other half of the butterfly by yourself, and by the end, you'll have made your very own realistic butterfly. .
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Description
Introduction
Supplies You'll Need
Long and Short Stitch
Thread Painting Tips
Selecting Reference Photos
Making the Stencil
Butterfly Body pt. 1
Butterfly Body pt. 2
Upper Wing pt. 1
Upper Wing pt. 2
Upper Wing pt. 3
Lower Wing + Finish Your Project
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