Yep, I'm Stitching This BEAST 

I too broke an arm when I was a kid, and during the following 8 weeks, learnt to click my fingers on one hand only. 40 years later, I can still only click my fingers on that one hand. Tangent acknowledged!

I love how the time-lapse after the first stitch subtly increases in tempo along with the tempo of the music piece you chose. Just... *chef's kiss*

The first stitch was so dramatic. I love it

Wow! I was exhausted just watching you! No way I could ever tackle something this big and detailed. Luckily....I can live vicariously through you.

Just looking at the finished outline close ups and I’m almost in tears because it’s so beautiful 😍 I found you through your dress-sewing adventures but I’m so glad you do embroidery too! Your work is stunning.

Sarah Humfray has 2 channels. On one of them she has a video which shows how to start and finish your threads from the top.

Yay another one 🎉

It is so stressful watching you talking from 6:29 waving that cup of tea around!! All I can think is "What happens if she spills the hot tea on the project?! Lines erased! Fabric stained!" You are much braver than I am!!

If you're interested, Sarah Homfray has some tips on starting and ending on framed embroideries

You can do several tiny holding stitches when you start and stop threads. The tension of the fabric and thread will hold everything in place without knots and allow less bulk on the back as well. This is especially helpful when you've got a lot of dense stitching in one area with different threads and also when you mount embroidery properly on a padded mat board. You can find a picture explanation of how to start and stop without knots in the RSN embroidery book that I've seen on your bookshelf. 🙂

I know it is not really embroidery related but I am curious if you would be up for making a video about getting your process for pricing finished pieces and other similair things like setting up your video camera to show the 'true' colours of the thread? I really enjoy your videos and would love to start making my own some day but everyone is a 'guru' and isn't super informative. Either way, thank you for your content and the motivation it gives me to create

I had a crap week and I’m tipsy on cava right now and your videos are one of the highlights of my week every week - absolutely love the amount of time and effort and care and love you spend on these videos

This is great, and this video convinced me to get your first beauty and the beast stitch. Thanks for making these, and showing them to us.

Instead of tying off a knot on a large piece like this - have you considered starting a thread by doing two or three split stitches underneath the center of an area that you plan to later cover with satin stitch? You can end threads by doing the same thing, hidden in between / under a dense section of satin stitch that you temporarily hold just out of the way.

This piece is perfect to finish threads with short stab stitches and then cut off at the front. As you're covering the whole area you won't see any of it and it will be securely stitched over :) My question is though: have you gotten faster with double handed stitching now you've practiced more?

Wow!

I found the double ended needles with an eye in the middle are wrist friendly. You don't have to twist the needle under the work to push it back through.

I personally only use double hand stitching because I can sew longer. When single handed the constant moving my arm back and forth makes the muscle at the top of my arm ache soooo bad! Double hand all the way

I love it, I'm so excited to see when finish!!! I love how you share your steps on colors and how your frame just crack. Thank you sharing

So satisfying. Wish I could go spend some time embroidering now, too.

Oh dang, I was WAY off with that 120! I think it would be interesting to see how many stitches per minute you get after practising with each double hand method for a while.

Same speed when you weren't practiced at double-handed! You'd probably be twice as fast double-hand sewing!

It's funny, I had your video on while I was stitching! I'm working on my latest Custom Care Bear, with a hand-embroidered tummy symbol :)

I'm looking forward to you making it!! Love this project!

I have always stitched in the lines first, I have always been worried the lines would vanish over time, I have never added knots to my work as I use the trick of sewing through the thread to hold it in place. I always play movies I have already watched so that I’m listening to it rather than watching but because I know the movie I can watch the key points in the movies. As a teenager I broke both wrists and elbows at the same time 🙈yep was playing tennis when I dived to hit ball miss-stepped and over reached and did not want to land on my face so held out my arms locked at the elbows 🙈🙈not a smart move, worst part the teacher did not believe me when I said I felt the bones crack, was made to go to my next 3 classes for the afternoon, then faced the hour and half walk back home with school bag. When Mom got home from work and saw all the bruising on both arms as well as the massive swelling she bundled me into the car and drove me to the ER this was 9pm the accident happened at 1:30pm it was 10pm by the time they did the x-rays. Because of the swelling they placed temporary plasters on which took 3 days to go back down yep was in hospital the whole time, once the full arm casts were on I was allowed home and back to school 😹😹😹the PE teacher never said a word to me at all, she did not even say sorry for not believing me at the time. Because of the casts being on both arms I had no choice but to sew with both hands 😹😹😹 been doing it that way ever since. I could already write with both hands so I think that’s why I found it easy to sew with both hands. My embroidery work is always neater when done this way, if I try doing it one handed it gets messy.😔 I don’t always use a frame but some how I hold my work in a way that I can still use both hands🤔🤔never worked out why I could do that trick. Looking forward to watching the other videos on this piece🤗🤗🤗

Enjoyed watching your process. Thanks ❤

Working on a 3ft by 3 ft cross stitch project and made the same realization about double handed stitching. I want a lowery stand eventually, so I can flip the frame.

I can highly advice you to watch the RU-vid channel of Sarah Homfray embroidery and on how she starts and finishes het threads. As Bodine already mentioned, little stab stitches is all you need for both starting and ending your threads. Best thing: no flipping your work at all!

I do two-hand stitching when I use a stand, and, for me, it's best having the dominant hand underneath. Seeing what my non-dominant hand is doing versus it just poking up the needle wherever with no sense of aim was frustrating. My dominant hand works better when I can't see it. That's me anyway. :)

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Amazing

I tried to turn this image into an embroidery file for my machine, but the program that I had wasn't up for the challenge. I might give your method a shot, cause I'd rather do it by hand

Do you ever use a colour-matching tool, like one that picks the closest DMC floss to a given RGB value? Or just do everything by eye?

You really should try a no knots method for these huge pieces. Beautiful work though

I might have missed it in a previous video but I'm curious what fabric and what type of weave this is. Is it what you would normally use for any embroidery or is it better for these satin stitches than other fabric would be?

Whoa, I was rewatching the other videos in the series just yesterday, very lucky ting there. It's looking so great so far! This would use a bunch of colors anyway given the style of the original, and I know this is a dream project, so you're taking your time with it and make something uou'l be really proud of. But how often are you planing in reusing colors throughout the piece? Feels like a piece this big would give at least a couple opportunities to use the same shade of [insert any color here] her end there.

Fantastic project! I suggest that you modify that one or make/buy a stand so you could flip 180 the frame for the center/horizon line to work in the back without the frame leaving the stand, less weight manipulation :) It also helped me with back problems, because you could control the angle. Best of luck! Suscribed

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Hiia, new here. This was fun to watch. Why did you blow dry after outlining? Is it to tighten the threads? Thanks so much 🪡

Question why are you using a blow dryer on it

Would it not be a lot quicker to digitally find the closest DMC tread number match available to the colour from the photo then doing it by the eye, or does that bring the joy out of it? Having stumbled onto you video, I don't have prior history if you have a reason for how you chose what colours to use...

Why did you use the hair dryer? I’m new here lol

Why did she use that hairdryer?

Watch Sarah Homphrey on RU-vid. She does everything from the front side!