Tiny Bear Knitting Tiny Things with Tiny Needles

Hooray! I found my Tiny Bear Embroidery (while I was looking for something else). As you may remember I'm embroidering this Tiny Bear with sewing thread. A slow process and I really could do with more shades than I'm currently using. Anyway, I thought it would be a nice idea to give Tiny Bear 'real' knitting needles and add a real knitting project too. My regular knitting needles were all too big so I decided to try and knit with some satay skewers (we regularly eat Indonesian food so we always have these hiding in the kitchen somewhere). It wasn't easy but I did manage to do a reasonably tidy stockinette stitch with them. Not sure if pink is the right colour though but I do love tiny-ness of it all. :)

Bend the Rules Embroidery

A little update on the Bear I'm stitching with sewing thread (instead of embroidery floss). I'm bending a lot of rules with this one (even my own rules!) Threads are overlapping, stitches layered and going in all directions. But somehow it works. At least I think it works. :)

A Different Kind of Thread

Can you embroider with regular sewing thread? Absolutely! It's probably not for everyone but for quite detailed work it's definitely worth investigating. Just a little while ago I was thinking about trying new techniques for embroidering my furry animals. From different sources I learned that some embroidery artists (including Chloe Giordano, she embroiders the sweetest animals!) use sewing thread instead of embroidery floss or silk. So I ordered a few bobbins in various shades of brown, put a few pencil lines on fabric as a rough guide and started embroidering. So far I'm happy with the results but I really need more shades to bring more subtlety to the shading in the bear's fur.

If you were a student in my Furry Nice Embroidery Class last year and you feel adventurous: you can use the techniques you learned in class and replace the regular floss with sewing thread. :)