Embroidery is one of the most fun DIYs - here is a great project to hang up your riot grrrl pledges or warrior quotes on your wall! You will need cloth (this one in pink checks was from Ikea), an embroidery hoop of any size you'd like and embroidery thread in various colours (from craft stores), and a needle with a large enough eye for your thread.
Be sure to iron your cloth before you pencil-sketch on your phrase. Mine says "Ovaries Before Brovaries" (Knope, 2011). Place the cloth tight in your embroidery hoop. Thread your needle and tie a knot on one end.
We'll use a split stitch for this embroidery. Basically it means you make your first stitch, then for the next stitch you will push the needle through the center of the stitch you just made (splitting the embroidery thread), before pulling the thread the whole way through. Repeat for subsequent stitches.
When you run out of thread, tie a tight knot as close to the cloth as possible, and snip off excess thread.
Finish up by adding any additional details!
You can iron the cloth again it if gets scrunched up as you did the project. Adjust your design so it sits right in the center of the hoop, and tuck in the excess cloth edges into the back of the hoop (you can glue it down with a glue-gun as well). And that's it, your pledge is ready to be hung up any which way you please!
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