Materials Required

I am listing the materials needed to start with your lessons. Please note that the terminologies are as in vogue in India as I am based in Chennai.

See the following picture. It shows all necessary materials. I am also giving more details on each material below.

1. Fabric: Buy half a meter of white poplin cloth. You may buy more if you want to do more embroidery after finishing the lessons.
   
   For learning the stitches, cut a piece measuring 15 inches by 12 inches.
   For project work 22 inches by 17 inches.
2. Embroidery Frame: 8 inches or 10 inches frame.
3. Needle: Embroidery needle. Note that there is a difference between ordinary stitching needle and embroidery needle. The eye of an embroidery needle in long/elongated.
4. Anchor Embroidery Stranded Cotton Skeins – 2 or 3 shades: Buy bright shades like parrot green, bright orange, copper sulphate blue. If you use dark colour in the initial stages, each stitch and its neatness may not be very much visible for you to appreciate. If you use very light shades, the embroidery may not look impressive on a white cloth. The Anchor hand embroidery skeins look as in this picture.
   

5. A Pair of Sharp Scissors: Please use good scissors. Also take care that you do not use this scissors for any other purpose like cutting paper/ milk covers etc. :) This would spoil the sharpness of the scissors when you again use it on cloth.
6. Foot Scale, Sharp Pencil: A foot scale and pencil shall be used to draw lines on the cloth.