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How to Do Embroidery on Your Jeans?
If you are not keen on opening an embroidery business, you can still take a small step by doing odd jobs on your personal clothes including t-shirts and jeans. That is a nice way to start experimenting with embroidery. Did you know that you could add life to your plain old jeans by adding some embroidery at the right places? All you need is to get ready your embroidery thread, embroidery design, and embroidery machine. You could even experiment with hand embroidery, a skill you can achieve with some regular practice. Look for some interesting designs at your neighborhood embroidery shop or store, if you do not have one.

Get your favorite pair of jeans out of the closet, or buy a new well fitting one. The color of the jeans is important. Embroidery looks better on darker shades than on faded jeans. Plus, you look slimmer in darker jeans. So, to enjoy double benefits pick a pair of dark jeans.

The key to the embroidery is in its placement. It all depends on where you want the focus of people’s attention. Embroidery also helps to accentuate your frame or down play some evil elements in your figure. For a figure that is reed thin, add some embroidery patterns around the outer areas near the hip to give the hip a rounded appearance. And, if the hips are wide, use a horizontal design at the hemline to offset the effects.

Pockets are an interesting area where you can place your embroidery. All front and back pockets can be used to let your imagination go wild. Embroidery designs look best on a stretched derriere. If the hips are wide or the derriere large, embroider only one pocket to have a slimmer effect. Normal and slim derrieres can have embroidery on both the back pockets. Place you embroidery just below or above the curve of the front pocket. So as not to accentuate the wide hip, avoid pointing the embroidery towards the crotch or let it go across towards the side seam.

To begin with, draw the pattern on the selected location on the jeans. Put on the jeans to see how it looks. Start embroidering only when you are satisfied with the location. Next, pick up the embroidery thread and place it on the jeans to see whether it matches with its color. Use only those colors that will make the embroidery standout. For that, use contrasting colors. If your denim is dark, lighter threads will look outstanding. For faded jeans, however, use darker hues to make the embroidery prominent. To make your design further standout, use satin thread outlines.

You will need some large needles to embroider a pair of jeans, since the cloth is rugged and thick. Once the job is over, you are going to love the compliments that the embroidery will draw.