GETTING STARTED

How to transfer your designs

1 Position the dressmaker’s carbon paper on your embroidery fabric with the chalk-side down.

2 Copy the motif onto tracing paper. Align the tracing paper on top of the dressmaker’s carbon paper. Position a sheet of cellophane on top. The cellophane isn’t absolutely necessary, but it protects the tracing paper and makes the tracing process smoother.

3 Trace the motif using a stylus or ballpoint pen.

4 The pressure of the pen will transfer the chalk onto the embroidery fabric in the outline of the motif.

How to prepare embroidery floss

Hold the skein of embroidery floss with the label positioned between your fingers. Slowly pull one end. Cut a 40-50cm long piece. Separate the individual strands. Realign the number of strands needed to stitch the design. Always separate the strands, even when using all size strands as this practice prevents the thread from knotting.

Getting embroidery floss right!

Since No.25 embroidery floss is composed of six strands, you can separate them to adjust the thickness of your stitching. The following guide shows the different results that can be achieved by stitching with different numbers of strands.