DIY Guide and Tutorial for Tufting Home Decor Items

Do you love embroidery but haven’t started yet due to lack of time or not mastering basic embroidery stitches? If there is a type of embroidery that can be done quickly and well, with just one simple stitch, by simply poking and embroidering, and you can create every pattern and work you want. Doesn’t it sound exciting! This kind of tufting embroidery, also known as punch needle embroidery. As long as you prepare a tufting needle, change the needle tip, thread the wool yarn, and poke it onto the cloth.


Just like a coloring game, fill each part of the pattern with color, and delicate embroidery works will come to life! The embroidery method is simple. Once you master the method, even children can join in. For home pillows, floor cushions, wall decoration hangings, old cloth bags, and various small dolls, you can create amazing works with tufting!


There are various ways to use the tufting needle. Besides poking directly one by one, it can also be combined with traditional stitches to create more stunning works.


If you have wool yarn at home, you can take it out and use it directly. This way, you don’t have to worry about not being able to crochet or not knowing how to use the yarn anymore.


You can buy tufting needles online. The needle tips can be changed to various sizes. Use a thin needle for thin yarn, and a thick needle for thick yarn. The stitch distance on the tufting needle can be adjusted, so you can adjust it according to your needs at any time. Let’s see how to thread the tufting needle.


Make some pillows for the whole family! Prepare a nailed wooden frame, stretch the cloth with a stapler, place the drawn pattern under the cloth, and trace it on the cloth with a pen. Thread the tufting needle, first poke out the smaller patterns, and then change the yarn to fill the blank areas. Check the video for the detailed method.


If you want to quickly complete a large work, you can use a thick needle and thick yarn to tuft. Just keep poking at the pattern drawn on the cloth!


When the pattern is more complex, you can first use a thin yarn to finish poking the outline, and then poke the small areas inside, from small to large, and complete it in a step-by-step manner.


With tufting embroidery, a simple cloth bag made of cloth is enough!


Small animal dolls can be easily made with tufting embroidery. Just draw the doll pattern you need on the cloth, stretch the cloth with an embroidery hoop or a wooden frame. After finishing poking the pattern, leave a 1CM seam allowance at the edge, turn it to the front and sew the two sides together, leave an opening, then turn it back to the front and stuff it with cotton, and sew the opening with a close stitch, and you’re done!


You can also tuft some patterns on eco-friendly bags, small cloth bags, and old bags to transform them!


In the future, you don’t need to spend a lot of time to complete embroidery. Start your handicraft journey with a tufting needle!



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