Posts tagged design process
My stitching routine

I threw up a poll on my instragram stories recently with some ideas for new blog posts and got people to vote on what they most wanted to see… by far and away the most popular choice was this one!

My stitching routine

Once I sat down to write this post I realised that in many ways, I don’t really have one! As with anything, of course, there are certain patterns to the way I work but I’m not actually sure if ‘routine’ best describes my habits

Ah well! I will do my best to enlighten you on a few things related to when/where and also how I stitch on a regular basis

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Creating an original design

This is something that I know a lot of people struggle with.

It’s hard to know where to start sometimes, and even harder to know if what you’ve created looks right!

I’m going to take you through the steps I use to create my designs before I even start stitching:

  • Looking for inspiration images

  • Drawing the elements of the design

  • Playing with composition

  • Thinking about colours

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