How to embroider a dot

A blog with DIY tutorials, graphic design resources, and inspiration from graphic designer Jessica Jones.

Remember when you learned penmanship and your teacher had to remind you to dot your i‘s and cross your t‘s? The same thing holds true when writing with your needle and thread – dotting the i‘s and crossing the t‘s are important, but dotting the i‘s is the part that’s tricky. The dot floats above ...

The French Knot is a simple embroidery stitch that creates a nubby, little three-dimensional dot.…

Learn how to embroider a star three different ways including how to stitch a five-point star, small stars, and how to fill in a star.

Today's tutorial is VERY beginners-friendly! So if you are still a little nervous to take up stitching, this little project would be a great start :) It is also not tied up to a pattern. On the contrary, you can build this starry sky yourself in a way that you like the most. Or use any of these stars as a doodley motif in another project. And if you are a beginner and want to know the basics first, you can start with the following posts: how to start thread, how to end thread and others in…

Love them or hate them. As a child, I was fascinated with dandelions and the memories flooded back when my daughter became fascinated with them as a toddler. She called them Tinkerbell flowers. So when I set up polkadots & bloom in autumn 2009, dandelions were one of the first designs I stitched. And they

This tutorial shows you a sweet and simple way to embroider a fluffy sheep using just a few basic embroidery stitches...

Here is a quick and easy tutorial that shows you how to embroider a moon. This shape can be tricky to get right...here's how!