Embroidered Initial Necklace Tutorial

My girls have been eyeing the necklaces that I’ve been selling in my shop, so I decided to make one for each of them.  I’ve wanted to try making an embroidered initial necklace, so this seemed like the perfect opportunity.  Miss Leah got an L for her name, and Audrey got an A, of course.  I created a whole embroidery alphabet pattern that you can download for free.

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To make an embroidered initial necklace, you’ll need:

• free embroidery alphabet pattern (instructions to download are at the bottom of this post)
• embroidery necklace pendant – Get them in my shop here.  (If you aren’t in the US, use my Etsy shop here.)
• fabric – Read my post about best embroidery fabric here.
• embroidery floss (colors listed on the pattern)
• embroidery needles
• scissors
• strong glue – I use this one.
• fabric protector spray – This is the one I used.

I wanted to stitch more than just a letter on each necklace, so I also added a little flower.  Get your smallest embroidery needle out for this one because those lazy daisy stitch flowers are made with just one strand of embroidery floss.  I tried making them with two strands, but they were too bulky.

I wrote up an entire tutorial and filmed a little video that will show you how to assemble the necklaces.  Find that on the post about my embroidery pendants and how to put embroidery in a necklace.  You might also find it helpful to watch my video on how to embroider letters by hand.  It explains, in detail, how to stem stitch letter like this.

Make sure to check out my other hand embroidery designs. I’ve got lots of free embroidery patterns!

Also take a look at these fun tween and teen craft ideas!

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