Last night, I finished embroidering the labels for my sewing needle case.  I looked through my needles and the resources from this post and narrowed it down to sharps, betweens (quilting), embroidery (crewel), tapestry, and cross-stitch needles.  (The cross-stitch needles are technically tapestry, but my head was starting to spin by this point so I decided to keep them separate.)

The embroidery was very simple to do.  I wrote out the words first on white grosgrain ribbon with a very fine Pigma Micron 005 pen.  I stretched the ribbon through my embroidery hoop and then back-stitched the letters with double strands of teal floss.  I was going for a subtle gradient effect, so I used three different shades of thread.

I found these metal card catalog labels in my stash and am thinking about blanket-stitching them into place.  However, it may make the whole thing feel sort of heavy.  I don’t know.  What do you think?

Next week: the full reveal.  I know this isn’t the most glamorous of projects, but I think it’s going to be so useful.  We’ll see…

Hope you have a great weekend!