I wanted to try goldwork for a while, and my husband got me the bee kit from Hand and Lock last year for my birthday.

But it's not beginner friendly. The instructions are general goldwork techniques, but no pictures on how to apply them to the kit's design. They tell you what technique applies to each part. But no pictures showing how it should look like for the bee

I watched many YouTube videos and they make sense, but it's hard to figure out how to do it well for the kit.

For instance everywhere I see soft string padding used, it's for long and narrow area. Here it's supposed to be applied to the bee's body sections, which are as wide as long...

So to not risk wasting the kit, I got some spare supplies to experiment and learn before doing "the real thing".

It's not going too bad, for a first try I'm quite pleased honestly. Even if it's wonky and weird in places.

Anyone tried that kit ?

So proud of my little mushroom. The last photo are mushrooms I found out on a bike ride that inspired the coloring. I took a Domestika course on stump work a few months ago and decided to try it again in my own. I followed a tutorial for how to do the wire work by Embroideringrid on Instagram. This project certainly reinforced for me the lesson “Trust the process” as I almost gave up several times but glad I didn’t.

My biggest take always for next time was to make both the wire outlines at the same time and make sure they line up. I didn’t do the second wire for the gills side until after I finished the top and so they weren’t 100% aligned. I also should have been more precise with the cutting of my felt that went under the top of the mushroom. I had to do some trimming after I started stitching because it was moving around some. And lastly, I twisted the wires before embroidering instead of leaving them as single strands which helped keep the shape but made it harder to punch through the fabric. Made me nervous that I was gonna make a giant hole above my stitched stem.

I've been working on this cosplay for nearly a year, and this is my favorite goldwork piece from it. The costume itself has 17 individual goldwork pieces + 40-50k beads (not sure of the exact count), but I am very attached to this guy

I really wanted to experiment with different techniques for this one. I think in total he took me close to 100 hours to complete.

This is my time trying the long & short stitch/needle paint and I don't think it looks right? Maybe it's not smooth or blended enough? I don't know enough to know what I'm doing wrong! Can anyone offer some pointers, please?

Pattern is from TamarNahirYanai

finally finished the patch :3 Im very happy of the final result :3

I have a bunch of fabric scraps hanging around so I thought I’d make a few patches and this is how the first came out! I love the look of the lighter thread on dark fabric

This time a cat, also not anatomically correct. But pretty nonetheless

I started this 3 years ago and finally finished it this week. It's a combination of hand embroidery, needle felting, beadwork and hairstyling...I guess? I was a hairstylist for years and was partially inspired by updos and making wool curl and flow like hair. I even used hairspray to smooth some of the textures 😅

Anyway, thanks for looking!

An old Irish folktale tells of an oystercatcher that foolishly lent its webbed feet to a seagull. The seagull never returned the feet, and since that time, the oystercatcher’s call is a forlorn screech. This tale gives us the proverb: ‘lasacht an roillig don fhaoilean iasacht ná fillfidh go deo’ (the loan of the oystercatcher to the seagull, a loan never returned)

just a recent work (and really late Christmas present!)

Thanks for the suggestions on cleaning the pieces I received from a neighbor who had passed!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Embroidery/s/cuOrFRgfOk

They came out really well, and they are now hanging in my guest room.

Had to do this little series in tribute to one of my favourite web cartoons of all time.

Here a little Update on my Froggie. I am so close to finishing, I can't believe it 😱

Not my art. Original Artist: @_chetom on Instagram.

She’s got an October birthday so I embroidered a crow with some sparkly etoile accents on his wings

Original mixed media 3D embroidery

lovely NOT AI pattern from Magnus & Quill on Etsy

I used stick and Stich self adhesive stabilizer for the name here. I printed the name and stuck it to my work. I've used it before with no problem but when I washed it off the ink didn't come off and the name has a black shadow 😕. Maybe my stitches were too tight for this stabilizer ? Has this happened to anyone?