Kids Embroidery: Where to Start For CM Homeschool
Welcome! I am here to teach help you teach your kids embroidery and where to start!
Does your child want to learn embroidery but you don’t know where to start? Don’t go anywhere! I have everything you need right here. You homeschooling mamas will be thrilled to learn that I make it easy for you to enjoy embroidery lessons at home.
Keep reading to learn all about my free home school embroidery curriculum! I will also be answering the question “when do use a running stitch?” as we continue our learning journey.
Where I began
When I was homeschooling I had the hardest time making room for handwork or “handicrafts” for those Charlotte Mason homeschoolers out there. I used Waldorf and Charlotte Mason when I was homeschooling.
It’s not like I didn’t know how to sew. In fact, I know how to embroider, cross-stitch, knit, crochet, needle felt and more. So even though I knew how to embroider I had the problem of figuring out where to start.” Yes this phrase is actually searched for! I looked.
My problem is that I was overwhelmed and broke. Not a good combination! So whenever I did do handwork my children were happy and proud of their work, and I was so glad I did.
I truly felt closer to my children. I absolutely cherish these memories and I am mad at myself for letting my overwhelm get in the way!
Yet we must not hold grudges but move steadily onward so we can make room for new grudges! Haha. Just kidding. Now back to the story.
To make a long story short, my husband and I helped start a Waldorf charter school and so now my older 4 children are at a school I love, but we still do crafts at home from time to time.
How wonderful it would have been for me to have had a step by step guide, where all the work was done for me during my homeschooling days! So many happy crafty days there could have been…
Start Kids Embroidery Here
As such, I have created one for you! Your children will learn to embroider through read a loud stories that teach mini lessons, with photos to guide your way.
Charlotte and Willow are the main characters. Charlotte is a young girl who came upon a wood nymph named Willow. Both ladies became fast friends through Willow being Charlotte’s embroidery teacher.
Charlotte is working on her embroidery sampler and you and your children can work right along with her!
I am still working on learning photography so these are not the best of pictures. I hope it’s good enough to give you a good idea how cute and fun this. Never fear, I will continue my quest in learning to take better photos.
To begin, start clicking below to read all the lessons so far. You’ll love them!
Click right here to start Chapter 1 perfect place to start for the title of this blog, “Kids embroidery where to start.”
And click here for Chapter 2 Sew a simple needle book!
Click here for Chapter 3 Start your embroidery sampler
Finally, click here for Chapter 4
This last chapter isn’t an embroidery lesson, but the backstory of Willow’s great great grandfather, famously known as Peter Pumpkin Eater. Find out why Peter and his sweetheart needed to live in a pumpkin shell. It’s a wonderful read aloud for the whole family!
Read on to find out what the running stitches are useful for.
Running Stitches Uses
As I have mentioned before, Charlotte is working on her embroidery sampler. She has learned how to sew a needle book, how to transfer her pattern to fabric, started the straight stitch on her sampler and is now ready to started learning how to sew the running stitch.
The story/tutorial curruiculm will be next week. This week I want to teach you about the uses of the running stitch.
If you have ever learned how to hand sew a basic hem, then you used a running stitch. With just a little variation you can make a doll sized simple tutu and many other things.
For embroidery it can help you create your thread artwork in many different ways which we will get in to in just a bit. The running stitch builds on the straight stitch.
The straight stitch is up and down.
The running stitch is up and down, and up and down in a line which ever direction you want to go.
Running stitch List Of Uses
- Borders
- Loosely fills in space, which means you are “coloring in” your embroidery drawings with embroidery floss (thread) with some white fabric showing between stitches.
- Great for making quick, undetailed brick walls.
- Decorative details in clothing or costumes. I provide an example below in one of my Etsy patterns.
- Anywhere else you need a dotted line.
There are variations on this stitch. Later in my curriculum we will explore them much later in my curriculum because there are so many fun things to learn but as the saying goes
How do you eat an elephant? One bit at a time!”
I heard it from Dave Ramsey, but he was not the first to say it.
Thankfully learning to embroider is much easier than eating an elephant. Phew! Sorry if I scared you. 😉
Kids Embroidery Where To Start, You Now Know the Answer
There you have it for today. Don’t forget to come back next week where we will learn how to sew the running stitch to our samplers.
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Thank you for joining me today! Kick that overwhelm out of your house and start making happy creative memories with your children!
Enjoy!
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