Free Embroidery Sampler Pattern: Bug Collectors Case – Part 3
Written by Scarlett
Free Embroidery Pattern
You can download a copy of the Bug Collectors Case Free Embroidery Pattern here –
https://StitchGothica.com/project/free-embroidery-patterns-beginners-embroidery-sampler-pattern
Bug Embroidery Pattern -Part 1
Have you stitched part one yet? Last weeks bug was the ladybird! The stitch was French Knot. You can read Part 1 here –
https://stitchgothica.com/free-beginners-embroidery-stitches-sampler-pattern/
Week 3 Embroidered Spider
Bolivian Tiger Spider
Featured Stitch: Woven Wheel, Chain Stitch
This week we’re going to create this striking stripy spider! He has a woven wheel head, chain stitch legs, a satin stitch body and some French knot eyes!
Week 3 Embroidered Spider
Featured Stitch: Woven Wheel, Chain Stitch
This week we’re going to create this striking stripy spider! He has a woven wheel head, chain stitch legs, a satin stitch body and some French knot eyes!
The Bolivian Tiger Spider or Linothele fallax
This little guy is part of the funnel-web tarantula family. He finds a nice hole or crevice in the ground to call home and creates a web in the shape of a funnel ending at the entrance to his burrow. He is venomous and has a leg span of around 4 inches.
How-To Embroidery Stitch Guide
How To Do Chain Stitch (legs)
Bring the needle up and back down in the same place, holding onto the thread so you’re left with a loop. Bring your needle up one stitch along and hook the loop over it. Pull the needle until the loop tightens. Then bring the needle back down in the same spot, holding onto the loop of thread again. And repeat.
How To Do Woven Wheel (head)
For this you need an uneven number of dots in a circle with one more dot in the middle.
First make the spokes of the wheel by coming up at each of the outer dots and down through the middle one. Next come up near the center and weave over and under the spokes, round and round until the spokes are completely covered. To finish the stitch you tuck the needle and thread under the edge of the wheel and through the fabric.
How To Do Satin Stitch (body)
How To Do French Knot (eyes)
Twist the thread twice round the needle and push the needle back through the fabric next to the base of the thread. Pull to form a little round knot.
Stitching Instructions
Bolivian Tiger Spider
Legs
Take 4 strands of DMC 310 colored thread and chain stitch the top section of the legs nearest the body. Pictured above.
Swap to two strands for the rest of the leg sections.
For each leg, make sure you bring your two strands up through the centre of the previous four strand loop (image below left).
Then keep your chain stitches loose for the second section of the leg, before tightening them for the third section. Lastly make a single straight stitch for the last leg section. This makes the legs look like they gradually get thinner and more spindly!
For the smaller legs that only have three sections, just start the second section with looser stitches and gradually tighten them before making the straight stitch for the last section.
When you’re done your legs should look like this.
Finally, make a couple of straight stitches for each pincher/jaw at the top of the head.
Body
Take three strands of DMC 976 and satin stitch the outer stripes on the body.
Then take up three strands of your 310 black and fill in the space between them.
Head
Now we’re going to stitch the woven wheel head. Take four strands of the 976.
First make the spokes (above left). Come up at each of the outer dots and down through the middle one.
Next come up near the center and weave over and under the spokes, round and round.
Keep packing the thread in until the spokes are completely covered.
Finally to finish the stitch, poke the needle and thread through the fabric just under the wheel.
Eyes
Last of all we add the eyes!
Take two strands of 310 and make four french knots roughly where they’re indicated on the pattern.
Don’t Forget Your Free Bug Pattern!
Don’t forget you can grab a free copy of this embroidery sampler pattern with stitch-a-long instructions and videos!
Download Your Free Embroidery Pattern here –
https://StitchGothica.com/project/free-embroidery-patterns-beginners-embroidery-sampler-pattern
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