I’ve been seeing fancy embroidered sweaters all over this spring, and I wanted to try my hand at one. I had a lightweight wool sweater in a beautiful light teal color, but it was a little bit boring. In my head, the flowers blanketed the shoulder and looked like a field of wildflowers. In reality, I think they are too big. I used a nickel to trace circles on the sweater, and then filled each circle with a daisy-stitched flower.
Just imagine how great this would look if you traced a pencil eraser instead and made tiny flowers! It would also take you many, many more hours. I have another sweater in my closet, and I think I’m going to try a single color of embroidery floss for the flowers.
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6 comments:
This is lovely! How long did it take?
Bryony
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Just a couple of hours. I probably could have done it faster if I hadn't been watching a movie at the time... :)
That is beautiful!
I think this is one of the prettiest upcycles I've seen in a long time. I agree tiny flowers would be awesome, but I don't think these are too big, either.
I don't think these are too big, either - but your idea of putting smaller ones on another sweater would be great - think tone on tone!
This is so pretty. I love embroidery embellishments. I agree with the comment above me, the flowers do not look big at all.
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