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Is learning hand embroidery easy?

August 24th, 2012 2 comments

I want to learn since it seems like fun and I’m into crafty things and it’ll probably help since I want to go to college for fashion design. Would it be easy to learn and something I could do in my free time?

It requires fine motor skills and patience. "Fine" here means "small", as opposed to large motor skills. You have to be fairly accurate with your stitch placement.

I taught myself how to do some embroidery when I was a pre-teen, out of a book. I found it fairly easy to do, and I still do it.

You can get embroidery kits, mostly cross stitch kits these days, or you can look up patterns on the internet or in the library. I had a pair of jeans that had more embroidery on them than plain fabric, but that was back in the 70s. I had fly stitch going down the leg seams, several embroidered symbols, and things like that.