How To Make a Wrist Cuff - faux wood & embroidered.

How to:
faux wood embroidered cuff
kootoyoo…click & stitch

Embroidery floss, scrap of flooring vinyl, tiny nails, needle, press studs, some scrap paper & thimble.

Step 2:
Cut a piece of scrap paper the same size as you want your finished cuff to be.

Step 3:
Position the template onto your vinyl.

Step 4:
Cut to size allowing a little extra “seam allowance” around the template piece.

Step 5:
Draw your design onto the paper. You could use text or graphics or something random as I have.
It’s important that your design doesn’t occupy the whole of the cuff space.
You should also be aware that you don’t want to have too many lines in your design as each stitch will weaken the vinyl.

Step 6:
Tape your design onto your vinyl cuff.

Step 7:
Now it’s time to get to work with your nail & your thimble.
Some vinyls can be stitched straight through but creating this “lacing card style” pattern just makes everything much easier & certainly reduces the number of tangles.

Step 8:
Begin by inserting the nail at the junctions of your lines.
The nail should slide fairly easily through the vinyl.

Step 9:
This is what your design should look like once you’ve made your intersecting holes.

Step 10:
Now go back & fill in the gaps. Just use your eye. This isn’t time for your fanciest embroidery.

Step 12:
Remove your paper design from your cuff.
See all those little holes? That’s your dot-to-dot.

Step 11:
Now thread your needle with your chosen floss.
Use all six strands. This fills up the holes nicely.

Step 14:
Begin stitching. You can use a backstitch as I have or another outline stitch of your choosing.

Step 15:
It’s a good idea to tape the original design to the top of the cuff so that you’ve got something to follow… all those pin holes get pretty confusing.

Step 16:
Once you’ve completed your outline you need to decide which shapes you want to fill.

Step 17:
Then knock yourself out colouring with floss.
Texture & colour are things to consider here.

Step 18:
Once you’ve finished all your stitching you need to attach your press studs at either end of the cuff.

Step 19:
If you’d like to “shape” your cuff now is the time to do that.
I just loosely followed the line of the embroidered design.

Step 20:
Your finished piece should look something like this.

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How To Make a Wrist Cuff - faux wood & embroidered.

by kootoyoo on Jan 11, 2010

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