4JF11PA: 4-H Member Project Guides, Needlework, Embroidery

4JF-11PA

4-H Member Project Guides NEEDLEWORK Embroidery 4-H Needlework—Embroidery 4JF-11PA

Purpose To have fun while learning how to use a hand needle and thread to embellish and/or create useful, well-made items through the needle art of embroidery.

Contents 4-H Needlework—Young Junior Embroidery (Ages 9 to 11) Begin Embroidery ...... 3 4-H Needlework— Beginner Embroidery Embroidery 101 ...... 5 4-H Needlework—Intermediate Embroidery More Embroidery 201 ...... 8 4-H Needlework—Advanced Embroidery Creative Embroidery 301 ...... 10 4JF-11PA 4-H Needlework—Embroidery

4-H Needlework—Young Junior Embroidery Member Project Guide (Ages 9 to 11) Begin Embroidery Make something special by creating your own designs on fabric, clothes, and accessories. Get your hoop, and let’s start stitching!

DO Try a Service Project—learn by sharing Learn new skills. Create and embroider a care cri er You will learn to: (bear, bunny, cat) for youngsters at a nearby family shelter or hospital. • Use an embroidery hoop and fabric Practice/Service Projects cannot be exhibited in • Prepare embroidery floss 4-H Needlework at the Kentucky State Fair. • Create basic embroidery stitches • Start and finish thread on project Embroider and exhibit a final • Control tension of thread as you stitch project* • Handle needle, fabric, hoop, and thread Select from the following: • Transfer design if applicable • One 4-by-4-inch (minimum) item • Read charts and follow design elements of red work (red fl oss) on white or unbleached plain woven fabric • Clean, press, and block finished project containing stem stitch • One 4-by-4-inch (minimum) item APPLY of cross stitch on ¼-inch checked Using the skills listed above, practice and gingham complete a project. • One 4-by-4-inch (minimum) fi n- ished stamped design item of cross What you will do: stitch on plain white woven fabric Practice skills and techniques— • One 2-by-8-inch (minimum) fi n- learn by doing ished border design item of cross stitch Make one or more of the suggested Practice/Service Projects. Consider • Purchased kit meeting project giving some of these as gi s to friends guidelines and family. Practice Projects include: *All items can be created from scratch (e.g., framed sachet pillow; hoop wall hanging; piece, pillow, wall hanging, holder), or the stitching holiday ornaments; bookmark; sam- can be created on a purchased item (e.g., pillowcase, pler (any size). clothing, tote bag, purse, bib, dishtowel).

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Keep a record of what you have embroidered Clutter Control Ask your leader/teacher to help you Equipment and supplies have a tendency fi ll out the 4-H Needlework Record for to get lost. Here are some suggestions to your project. Be sure to list skills you help keep everything safe and in good have a empted as well as those you condition: believe you have mastered. Store the record in a folder or three-ring note- • Use a pencil box, eye glass case, travel book to review before you begin next toothbush holder to hold small items year’s project. such as hooks, T-pins, needles, tape measure, pencil, and notepad What you may need: (put your name on it) • Use zip top plastic bags to hold your • Scissors embroidery samples • Embroidery scissors • Use a cloth or sturdy bag with handles • Hoop to carry all supplies and materials • Embroidery floss • Use a pocket folder or three-ring • Embroidery needle binder to store handouts and patterns • Fabric • Transfer pencil • Masking tape

• Thimble Source: Mary Hixson, County Agent for Family & • Other supplies needed to Consumer Sciences complete project Marjorie Baker, Extension Associate, Family & Consumer Sciences Doris Reed, County Leader SHARE Show others what you have learned. What you can do: • Participate in your club, county, district, and/or state Demonstration Contest • Exhibit at your county Fair, Festival, and/or Rally Day and the Kentucky State Fair (4-H Project Card required) • Investigate participating in your county Fashion Revue

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4-H Needlework— Beginner Embroidery Member Project Guide Embroidery 101 Make something special by creating your own designs on fabric, clothing, or accessories. Get your hoop, and let’s start stitching!

DO What you will do: Learn new skills and refi ne old ones. Practice the techniques and skills—learn by doing You may learn to: Make one or more of the suggested • Use an embroidery hoop and fabric Practice/Service Projects. Consider • Prepare embroidery floss/yarn/thread giving some of these as gi s to friends and family. Practice Projects include: • Transfer design if applicable sachet pillow, hoop wall hanging, holi- • Create basic embroidery stitches (stem day ornaments, book mark, sampler or outline, lazy daisy, running, straight, (any size). French knots, satin, blanket, chain, Try a Service Project—learn and/or back) by sharing • Start and end thread on project Create and embroider a care cri er • Control thread/yarn tension as you (bear, bunny, cat, etc.) for youngsters stitch at a nearby family shelter or hospital. • Handle needle, fabric, hoop, and thread Practice/Service Projects cannot be accepted in • Read charts and follow design elements 4-H Needlework at the Kentucky State Fair. • Create snowflake (chicken scratch) embroidery Embroider and exhibit a final project • Create candlewicking embroidery • Clean, press, and block finished project Choose your project from one of the following:* • One 5-by-7-inch (minimum) APPLY item of red work (red fl oss on plain Use the skills you have previously learned white woven or unbleached woven as well as those listed above to practice and fabric) that includes stem stitch complete a project. • One 5-by-7-inch (minimum) item of cross stitch on ¼-inch gingham fabric

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• One 5-by-7-inch (minimum) What you may need: stamped design item of cross stitch on plain white fabric • Basic embroidery supplies, including scissors, embroidery scissors, hoop, • One 7-by-7-inch (minimum) item of embroidery floss, embroidery needles, candlewicking that includes colo- fabric, transfer pencil, masking tape, nial knots on plain woven fabric thimble • One 5-by-7-inch (minimum) item of • Supplies appropriate to project selected, free embroidery that includes fi ve including fabric, huck toweling, Aida stitches (stem/outline, lazy daisy, cloth, monk’s cloth, waste canvas, or running, straight, French knot, satin, tapestry needle blanket, chain, or back) and three or more diff erent color fl osses on plain • Other supplies needed to complete project woven or felt fabric • One 5-by-7-inch (minimum) item of SHARE snowfl ake (chicken scratch) embroi- Show others what you have learned. dery on ¼-inch or smaller gingham • Purchased kit that meets project What you can do: guidelines • Participate in your club, county, district, *All items can be created from scratch (e.g., framed and/or Demonstration Contest piece, pillow, wall hanging, holder), or the stitching can be created on a purchased item (e.g., pillowcase, • Exhibit in your county Fair, Festival, clothing, tote bag, purse, bib, dishtowel). and/or Rally Day and the Kentucky State Fair (4-H Project Card required) Keep a record of what you have • Investigate participating in your county embroidered and state Fashion Revue if your project is wearable* Take time to fi ll out the 4-H Needle- work Record. Be sure to list skills you *State Fashion Revue participants must be 14 years have a empted as well as those you old by Jan. 1 of the current year. believe you have mastered. Store the record in a folder or three-ring note- book to review before you begin next year’s project.

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Clutter Control Equipment and supplies have a tendency to get lost. Here are some suggestions to help keep everything safe and in good condition: • Use a pencil box, eye glass case, travel toothbush holder to hold small items such as hooks, T-pins, needles, tape measure, pencil, and notepad (put your name on it) • Use zip top plastic bags to hold your embroidery samples • Use a cloth or sturdy bag with handles to carry all supplies and materials • Use a pocket folder or three-ring binder to store handouts and patterns

Source: Mary Hixson, County Agent for Family & Consumer Sciences Marjorie Baker, Extension Associate, Family & Consumer Sciences Doris Reed, County Leader

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4-H Needlework—Intermediate Embroidery Member Project Guide More Embroidery 201

Keep on counting. There are more embroidery stitches to learn and fabrics to stitch!

DO Try a Service Project—learn by sharing Learn new skills and refi ne old ones. Create and embroider a care cri er What you will learn: (bear, bunny, cat, etc.) for youngsters at a nearby family shelter or hospital. • Counted cross stitch on Aida cloth Embroider and exhibit a final • Huck embroidery on monk’s cloth or huck toweling project • Additional embroidery stitches beyond Select from the following:* the Beginner Level • One 7-by-9-inch (minimum) item of • How to use waste canvas free embroidery with a minimum of six diff erent embroidery stitches and three or more colors of embroi- APPLY dery fl oss on plain woven fabric Use the skills you have previously learned • One 3-by-3-inch (minimum) item as well as those listed above to practice and of counted cross stitch on 11- or complete a project. 14-count Aida cloth or other fabric using waste canvas What you will do: • One 2-by-10-inch (minimum) item Practice the skills and of huck embroidery on huck towel- techniques—learn by doing ing, creating a border design Make one or more of the suggested • One 2-by-2-inch (minimum) single Practice/Service Projects. Consider motif item of huck embroidery giving some of these as gi s to friends • One 36-by-36-inch (minimum) item and family. Practice projects include: of huck embroidery on monk’s cloth a sachet pillow, hoop wall hanging, holiday ornaments, bookmark, and • Purchased kit meeting project sampler (any size). guidelines *All items can be created from scratch (e.g., framed Practice/Service Projects cannot be exhibited in piece, pillow, wall hanging, holder), or the stitching 4-H Needlework at the Kentucky State Fair. can be created on a purchased item (e.g., pillowcase, clothing, tote bag, purse, bib, dishtowel).

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Keep a record of what you have What you can do: embroidered • Participate in your county Demonstra- Take time to fi ll out the 4-H Needle- tion Contest work Record. Be sure to list skills you • Exhibit at your county Fair, Festival, have a empted as well as those you and/or Rally Day and the Kentucky believe you have mastered. Store the State Fair (4-H Project Card required) record in a folder or three-ring note- book to review before you begin next • Investigate participating in county and year’s project. state* Fashion Revue if your project is wearable What you will need: *State Fashion Revue participant must be 14 years old by Jan. 1 of the current year. • Scissors • Embroidery scissors • Hoop Clutter Control • Embroidery floss • Embroidery needle Equipment and supplies have a tendency to get lost. Here are some suggestions to • Transfer pencil help keep everything safe and in good • Masking tape condition: • Thimble • Use a pencil box, eye glass case, travel • Supplies appropriate to project selected, toothbush holder to hold small items including: fabric, huck toweling, Aida such as hooks, T-pins, needles, tape cloth, monk’s cloth, waste canvas, or measure, pencil, and notepad tapestry needles, etc. (put your name on it) • Other supplies needed to complete • Use zip top plastic bags to hold your project embroidery samples • Use a cloth or sturdy bag with handles SHARE to carry all supplies and materials • Use a pocket folder or three-ring Show others what you have learned. binder to store handouts and patterns

Source: Mary Hixson, County Agent for Family & Consumer Sciences Marjorie Baker, Extension Associate, Family & Consumer Sciences Doris B. Reed, County Leader

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4-H Needlework—Advanced Embroidery Member Project Guide Creative Embroidery 301

The world is a picture, so why not embellish it! In this project you will have the opportunity to create colorful masterpieces using ribbon, beads, yarn, and/or trims.

DO Try a Service Project—learn by sharing Learn new skills and refi ne old ones. Create and embroider a care cri er You may learn to: (bear, bunny, cat, etc.) for youngsters at a nearby family shelter or hospital. • Use silk ribbon to create embroidery design Embroider and exhibit a final • Use beading in your embroidery work project* • Create stitches on even-weave fabric or Select from one the following: Aida cloth smaller than 14-count • One 5-by-7-inch (minimum) item of • Create your own design and project counted cross stitch on even-weave fabric or Aida cloth smaller than 14-count using embroidery fl oss APPLY • One 6-by-8-inch (minimum) item Use the skills you have already learned of crewel embroidery on linen or as well as skills listed above to practice and co on twill fabric using crewel or complete a project. Persian yarn • One item created or embellished What you will do: with silk ribbon embroidery using Practice skills and techniques— fi ve or more embroidery stitches learn by doing with silk ribbon Make one or more of the suggested • One item constructed of irregularly Practice/Service Projects. Consider shaped fabric pieces embellished giving some of these as gi s to friends with a combination of ribbon work, or family. Practice Projects include: specialty threads, embroidery sachet pillow, hoop wall hanging, holi- stitches, and/or beadwork, creating day ornaments, bookmark, and sam- a fi nished crazy quilt design pler (any size). • Purchased kit that meets the project guidelines

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*All items can be created from scratch (e.g., framed What you can do: piece, pillow, wall hanging, potholder, eyeglass holder, etc.), or they can be created on a purchased • Participate in your club, county, district, item (e.g., pillowcase, clothing, tote bag, purse, bib, and/or state Demonstration Contest dishtowel, etc.). • Exhibit in your county Fair, Festival, Keep a record of what you have and/or Rally Day and the Kentucky embroidered State Fair (4-H Project Card is required) Take time to fi ll out the 4-H Needle- • Investigate participating in your county work Record. Be sure to list skills you and state Fashion Revue if your project is have a empted as well as those you wearable* believe you have mastered. Store the *State Fashion Revue participants must be 14 years record in a folder or three-ring note- old by Jan. 1 of the current year. book to review before you begin other projects. What you may need: Clutter Control Equipment and supplies have a tendency • Scissors to get lost. Here are some suggestions to • Embroidery scissors help keep everything safe and in good • Hoop condition: • Embroidery floss • Use a pencil box, eye glass case, travel • Embroidery needle toothbush holder to hold small items such as hooks, T-pins, needles, tape • Transfer pencil measure, pencil, and notepad • Masking tape (put your name on it) • Thimble • Use zip top plastic bags to hold your • Supplies appropriate to project selected, embroidery samples including: fabric, Aida cloth smaller • Use a cloth or sturdy bag with handles than 14 count, tapestry needle, small to carry all supplies and materials sewing needle and thread, Persian • Use a pocket folder or three-ring yarn/crewel yarn, silk ribbon, glass seed binder to store handouts and patterns beads, and specialty threads. • Other supplies needed to complete project Source: Mary Hixson, County Agent for Family & Consumer Sciences SHARE Marjorie Baker, Extension Associate, Family & Consumer Show others what you have learned. Sciences Doris B. Reed, County Leader

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