The Beauty of Handmade Design: Exploring Stitch Options and Color Choices

When it comes to designing handmade pieces, one of the most exciting aspects is the freedom to make things your own. Unlike mass-produced designs that require adherence to specific guidelines, handmade creations allow you to experiment with different stitches, colors, and patterns. This article will delve into the world of stitch options and color choices, providing a comprehensive guide for those new to embroidery.

Finding Designs to Inspire You

When searching for designs to inspire your next project, it's essential to remember that you don't have to follow every stitch or instruction exactly as intended. The beauty of handmade craft lies in its versatility, allowing you to take ideas and make them your own. Take note of the outline provided in your design or coloring book; this serves as a buffer edge, helping you stay within the lines and prevent mistakes.

Using Satin Stitches

Satin stitches are an excellent stitch for filling in empty spaces, such as leaves in a design. This stitch involves using two strands of floss to create a smooth, even line that covers a significant amount of space. To begin, start with one end of the leaf and work your way across, then back again, filling in the empty space along the way. As you fill in each section, use small stitches close together to ensure complete coverage.

Working with Floss

When working with floss, it's essential to remember that two strands will cover less area than one strand of thicker thread. To achieve an even distribution of color, keep your stitches consistent and not too loose or tight. If you're new to embroidery, using just two strands of floss can be a great starting point, as it allows you to focus on the stitch itself rather than trying to manage multiple threads.

Creating a Design: Fill-in Stitches

To complete your design, fill in the empty spaces with satin stitches, working from one end of the leaf and moving across. As you work, you'll notice that the stitches start to come together, filling in the entire space. Remember to keep your stitches consistent, using small movements to avoid any visible gaps.

Using Stitch Variations

For this project, we only needed a few basic stitches: backstitch, French knot, and satin stitch. However, feel free to experiment with other stitch variations to add texture and interest to your design. The key is to understand how each stitch works and practice using them until they become second nature.

Color Choices: Contrast and Harmony

When selecting colors for your embroidery, it's essential to consider the contrast between the background fabric and the design itself. You can choose a single color that complements both or experiment with multiple hues to create visual interest. In this project, we used pink, blue, and green to create a cohesive yet visually appealing palette.

Embracing Flexibility

One of the greatest benefits of handmade craft is its flexibility. Feel free to adjust your design as you see fit, leaving sections open or filling them in with a different stitch. This article has provided an introduction to basic stitches and color choices, but remember that embroidery is all about experimentation and self-expression.

Finishing Touches: Unhooping the Project

With your design complete, it's time to unhook it from the frame. Take this opportunity to review your work, making any necessary adjustments before moving forward with the next step in your project. In our case, we're ready to move on to completing our tote bag.

In conclusion, embroidery is a versatile craft that allows you to express yourself through design and stitch choice. By understanding the basics of stitches and color choices, you can create unique pieces that reflect your personality. Don't be afraid to experiment and try new things – it's all part of the handmade journey.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enall right so to prep our outer fabric here for our embroidery we are going to lay the fabric with the pretty side of it facing up so notice the Hem that we created should be facing down okay and if you want to put your embroidery placement the same place that I did what I did was simply measure first of all Let's Fold this in half just so we can get a light crease so we know we're going to be somewhere here in the center and I'm just kind of scratching the fabric a little bit with my nail and you see the denim really holds a nice crease so there's our Center mark and then I measured 2 in or 2 and 1 half inches down from the top hemmed Edge so we'll do two and A2 right here and make sure that you're using a water soluble pen I'm just going to slide over a little bit and make another Mark at my 2 and 1/2 and then in from the sides I just measured 2 in so I know where to kind of exactly line up my design so 2 in is here so just a couple of different reference points on there and you can kind of eyeball it if you want to as well or you can take more points uh so you know how to better line up your design now the design that we're going to be using is out of the book called Stitch style and you can see that I have the same design printed on both sides and that's because this book offers two two different ways for you to use the embroidery design so on the solid black line that looks like black ink printed on here you can lay your paper over this and Trace the design out but this is quite intricate and there's a lot of small pieces I didn't want to do that so so I um decided to cut into the sheet like it's referenced in the book to do and the opposite side of that is kind of like a lighter Black Ink color it's more like a dark gray color and that's the transfer side so let me show you how I do it we can lay this with the transfer side down onto our Fabric and because the same design is printed on the opposite side we can use this top part as our guide okay so I can even cut this edge off here so I can better line up my my design so transfer side is this one transfer side is going to go down I want the top of the design about here to be where these measurements are okay and then you can see that about 2 in in from the sides is the end and the beginning of my design going this way so just line it up as best as you can get it and it's okay it doesn't have to be perfect as far as like exactly the same measurements as I'm using here just line it up so that you get it straight and I'm going to scoot this up just a little bit I'm covering my Marks here but I can still see kind of where I'm at you can always go back and measure 2 in to the edge of the design 2 inches and that way I'll ensure that my design is going to be centered so from where this circle starts I need to scoot this over just a little bit and that's better let's go ahead and press this with the warm iron you can use some fabric on top of this um I'm just going to lay the lining over it just to protect the ink on that side and just with a warm iron try not to move that paper underneath I'm just kind of gliding it across so that the heat transfers that ink over to my fabric now carefully remove whatever pressing cloth you're using I'm holding the paper in place I'm going to flip over one side of it and it didn't transfer so let me do it again just stra all right so here we have our design and I've already used it once before so let's peel this back and you can see that my design has shown up nicely there because I'm working on a light fabric if the fabric was a little a little bit darker than this I might not be able to see it but now you know that you can get more than one use out of the transfer side sheets uh from this Indigo Junction Stitch style book okay so we can put that aside and you can always save it because remember the opposite side is black so you can always trace it so if you want to save this design for future use go ahead and save it somewhere so you can use it in the future so now we have our design right onto our fabric exactly where we want it and we're ready to start doing some embroidery stitches all right so now that we have have our embroidery design transferred to our outer fabric the next step is to load it into a hoop and to start embroidering so I don't have another hoop this size but I will tell you that for the size project that we're working on I used a 9 in wooden hoop here and it worked out perfectly I have enough of the overhang still here for the top part if you find that you have a smaller hoop and you're not able to get the entire design into it feel free to hoop it in one section do part of it and then go ahead and do the other but I kind of like to just have the whole thing in one so a 9 in uh wood hoop works fine for this project all right so here's one sample that I have almost completed for you because I just wanted to show you what types of stitches we did here super easy first let's go over and I'll use my little scissors here to point let's talk about the center design here this little Motif was done it's outlined right and I did it just using our back stitch and if you recall from our previous hand embroidery videos the back stitch is this one where you come up take a stitch and then you're kind of making the next Stitch going back back to where you previously came out of okay so if you need a refresher on that make sure that you click right here and that graphic will take you right to that video tutorial so that's just the back stitch now most of this is done with the same back stitch so let's go over it this one is done with the back stitch the center circle is done with the back stitch and for those of you that are a little hesitant to try things like circles and curves remember what I said back in that other video if you are doing a back stitch around any curves or any points like this or like a full circle the trick is to just make smaller stitches stitches if you do a long Stitch it's going to be pretty straight but if you break up those curves into smaller bits it's kind of like when we're sewing around curves right we don't just sew and swing it through the if you work on smaller bits smaller bits a little at a time then you're able to get it a lot better okay so the same works for for your hand embroidery stitches now let's look at these different little circles here with the flowers inside of them this circle here the blue that you see again back stitch the one here was done with our back stitch and the yellow flower that's on the inside as well and then the center point here and these little bubbles that we have going around the edge are just French knots and remember that the French knot is you wrap it three times around the needle again if you need a refresher on that I have a full video tutorial on French knots and you can click right here and that graphic will take you to that video okay so French knot in the center French knots all the way around the same exact thing we did here on this other side so now all we have left are these little leaves and this is where I want to show you something a little different so these two they may look the same to you on camera but in person I can tell that this one looks a little bit better to me just because it's more pronounced as far as the outline goes and so this uses first of all a back stitch going down the stem here but to fill in the leaves completely instead of just having an outline I went ahead and did a satin Stitch and I'm going to show you how to do that in a little bit but I wanted to show you two different ways if you just go in and do a line up the stem like right you see the little straight line here that's just the stem part of it if you just do the back stitches there and then you just start to fill in the actual little leaf part you're going to end up with something that looks like this so depending on how precise you are entering and exiting every single stitch you may or may not get really pronounced leaves right like the shape that kind of teardrop shape that we're looking for on this one however we get a more pronounced shape and that is because I outlined the entire Motif first in back stitches and then went back with my satin stitches and filled them in so it gives me kind of like a buffer Edge and then you can come in and fill them in with the satin Stitch inside of it so it's a little bit easier and again it gives you a more pronounced Edge now another difference is this is a lot more filled up it's a lot more textured and it's more raised and that's because I use four strands of embroidery floss on this one and on this one I just used two so although we have a more defined look on this one because of the outlining that I did initially it lays a little bit flatter as well so play around with the different strands that you're using how many of them you're using and then the different techniques that you can do as well so we're going to jump over here and I'm going to do the same thing uh on one of these on this side and show you how I do it so the first thing I need is to grab my embroidery floss and I'm using this really pretty green color I've already cut out a piece remember that the embroidery floss comes six strands all right so if you grab it on one end and you kind of tap it and flick it back and forth you can see them start to separate so I'm going to repeat what I've done initially on this bottom one here that I kind of like better than that that one and I'm going to use just two strands so to separate this if you cut off a really long piece it's going to get tangled on you so what you want to do is cut out a piece that measures uh no more than about 18 20 in or so and then I'm holding it at the top I'm going to want two strands okay so here's what I do there's four in one hand right and the two that I want in the other now I'm holding it right here separate on one hand and with my opposite hand I'm going to just hold it here and run my pointer finger down the center and it's gonna curl on you so kind of just uncurl it with your hand and do another chunk so you see how it's all twisted up on me right here I'm going to untwist it a little bit to get it to flow a little easier all right so we're coming down to the end here and I'm just going to finish separating them out perfect so I have two strands and four strands and I can save this for the rest of them cuz I still have two more batches of two strands right so for these we're going to use them and thread them through our embroidery needle all right so I have my embroidery needle and it's threaded I put a knot on the end of my floss here as well and I'm just going to start my back stitches and outline the entire little design here and you can do the leaves first you can do the whole stem part first you can definitely just jump around so I'm going to come in a little bit take one stitch and then on that more round part going up towards the point or the tip of that leaf I'm going to take break that up into two more stitches so there's one and now I can go up to the peak and get a really pronounced little tip there as I come down all right and then I'm going to come down on the opposite side of it and go right back in right at the peak so I can get that pronounced little tip that I want that looks good to me all right so as I'm coming across to do the last little leaf here I am going to share something with you notice the design looks super cute already just with the outline stitches so if you don't want to go and Venture off into the world of satin stitches which I'm going to show you next if you just want to keep it real simple with just the basic stitches that you've already learned in this series just leave it like this just like you're seeing it right here it still looks super cute if you just left it as an outline and so that's another thing to note when you're finding designs out there that you like and want to try out you don't have to do exactly what the designer or whoever the instructor is requires you to do you can always make things your own that's the beauty of handmade stuff right we can do whatever we want with it cuz we're the ones making it all right and the last little Stitch here and now this is kind of like a coloring book when we're kids that we outline the stuff and then shade it in on the inside that's how I used to do it so that that outline kind of gives you like that buffer Edge right so now when you start going in side to side you are a lot uh less likely to go outside of the lines right because you see where the darker line is to stop you so that's the same idea with this little outline here so now we'll go in and just fill in the leaves part of it with a satin Stitch and so the satin Stitch if you're not familiar with it is just a s Stitch that basically fills in empty space like this if you're familiar with machine embroidery often times that's pretty much what makes up a lot of those designs that are not just outline stitches it's the ones where it's just like it fills in it's a lot of thread gets taken up you know but it's just going to fill in the leaf so I'm going to start on one end and you can start in the middle if you want to if you notice that your stitches aren't being like exactly even side to side you can start in the middle and I'll show you that in the next thing but I'm just going to take a super teen py little Stitch right in the corner now I'm going to come over a little bit higher and keep in mind if you're using just two strands of floss like I am the two strands are not going to cover that much space so you really got to keep your stitches close so I'm coming up here and then I'm reaching in across on the other edge of the leaf to fill in that piece again I'm starting off on one end right here and then I'm going to come in on the opposite end or across from it so that I start filling in that empty space there in the Middle come over right here and jump all the way across here and you can see that those stitches are starting to get filled in and so this is going to take a little longer and we're just working on really tiny leaves here if you're going to do a satin Stitch to fill in a big space it's definitely going to take up a lot of thread and it'll take you a while but this is a good way to introduce you to um a new Stitch so really for this design all you need to know how to do is the back stitch your French knot and a satin Stitch if you wanted to do these uh fill the leaves in like I'm doing here all right I think we just need two more stitches one and then a really Teensy one right on the end all right so now you get the idea first outline them and then fill them in with the satin Stitch and then I'm going to go through and finish these off so we can move on to the next step in our project which is putting the tote bag together once you're done with the entire embroidery design that's it you're ready to put them together and finish off your tote so as you can see I went ahead and completed all the little leaf ones here and I filled them in with the satin Stitch but then I decided to just leave these as the outline so play around with whatever designs and the stitches that you want to use now that I'm looking at this actually I think this blue circle here would look great if I filled it in with a satin Stitch but for now I'm just going to leave it like this so remember just using back stitches French knots and some satin stitches you can complete this entire design now let's talk a little bit about color just to show you briefly the colors of the embroidery floss that I decided to use I always like to use thread or floss that creates a contrast between the background Fabric and the design itself I really wanted to use some white on here but white it was just too close to this pistachio color of the denim that I used so I decided to just go nice and bold with this pink kind of like a darker goldish color a nice blue and this darker green color for the leaves so play around with your colors and you can use as many as I did you can do it in one color or you can even use more than this so now that we're ready to un hoop our project from here we can now move on to the next step which is to complete our tote bagall right so to prep our outer fabric here for our embroidery we are going to lay the fabric with the pretty side of it facing up so notice the Hem that we created should be facing down okay and if you want to put your embroidery placement the same place that I did what I did was simply measure first of all Let's Fold this in half just so we can get a light crease so we know we're going to be somewhere here in the center and I'm just kind of scratching the fabric a little bit with my nail and you see the denim really holds a nice crease so there's our Center mark and then I measured 2 in or 2 and 1 half inches down from the top hemmed Edge so we'll do two and A2 right here and make sure that you're using a water soluble pen I'm just going to slide over a little bit and make another Mark at my 2 and 1/2 and then in from the sides I just measured 2 in so I know where to kind of exactly line up my design so 2 in is here so just a couple of different reference points on there and you can kind of eyeball it if you want to as well or you can take more points uh so you know how to better line up your design now the design that we're going to be using is out of the book called Stitch style and you can see that I have the same design printed on both sides and that's because this book offers two two different ways for you to use the embroidery design so on the solid black line that looks like black ink printed on here you can lay your paper over this and Trace the design out but this is quite intricate and there's a lot of small pieces I didn't want to do that so so I um decided to cut into the sheet like it's referenced in the book to do and the opposite side of that is kind of like a lighter Black Ink color it's more like a dark gray color and that's the transfer side so let me show you how I do it we can lay this with the transfer side down onto our Fabric and because the same design is printed on the opposite side we can use this top part as our guide okay so I can even cut this edge off here so I can better line up my my design so transfer side is this one transfer side is going to go down I want the top of the design about here to be where these measurements are okay and then you can see that about 2 in in from the sides is the end and the beginning of my design going this way so just line it up as best as you can get it and it's okay it doesn't have to be perfect as far as like exactly the same measurements as I'm using here just line it up so that you get it straight and I'm going to scoot this up just a little bit I'm covering my Marks here but I can still see kind of where I'm at you can always go back and measure 2 in to the edge of the design 2 inches and that way I'll ensure that my design is going to be centered so from where this circle starts I need to scoot this over just a little bit and that's better let's go ahead and press this with the warm iron you can use some fabric on top of this um I'm just going to lay the lining over it just to protect the ink on that side and just with a warm iron try not to move that paper underneath I'm just kind of gliding it across so that the heat transfers that ink over to my fabric now carefully remove whatever pressing cloth you're using I'm holding the paper in place I'm going to flip over one side of it and it didn't transfer so let me do it again just stra all right so here we have our design and I've already used it once before so let's peel this back and you can see that my design has shown up nicely there because I'm working on a light fabric if the fabric was a little a little bit darker than this I might not be able to see it but now you know that you can get more than one use out of the transfer side sheets uh from this Indigo Junction Stitch style book okay so we can put that aside and you can always save it because remember the opposite side is black so you can always trace it so if you want to save this design for future use go ahead and save it somewhere so you can use it in the future so now we have our design right onto our fabric exactly where we want it and we're ready to start doing some embroidery stitches all right so now that we have have our embroidery design transferred to our outer fabric the next step is to load it into a hoop and to start embroidering so I don't have another hoop this size but I will tell you that for the size project that we're working on I used a 9 in wooden hoop here and it worked out perfectly I have enough of the overhang still here for the top part if you find that you have a smaller hoop and you're not able to get the entire design into it feel free to hoop it in one section do part of it and then go ahead and do the other but I kind of like to just have the whole thing in one so a 9 in uh wood hoop works fine for this project all right so here's one sample that I have almost completed for you because I just wanted to show you what types of stitches we did here super easy first let's go over and I'll use my little scissors here to point let's talk about the center design here this little Motif was done it's outlined right and I did it just using our back stitch and if you recall from our previous hand embroidery videos the back stitch is this one where you come up take a stitch and then you're kind of making the next Stitch going back back to where you previously came out of okay so if you need a refresher on that make sure that you click right here and that graphic will take you right to that video tutorial so that's just the back stitch now most of this is done with the same back stitch so let's go over it this one is done with the back stitch the center circle is done with the back stitch and for those of you that are a little hesitant to try things like circles and curves remember what I said back in that other video if you are doing a back stitch around any curves or any points like this or like a full circle the trick is to just make smaller stitches stitches if you do a long Stitch it's going to be pretty straight but if you break up those curves into smaller bits it's kind of like when we're sewing around curves right we don't just sew and swing it through the if you work on smaller bits smaller bits a little at a time then you're able to get it a lot better okay so the same works for for your hand embroidery stitches now let's look at these different little circles here with the flowers inside of them this circle here the blue that you see again back stitch the one here was done with our back stitch and the yellow flower that's on the inside as well and then the center point here and these little bubbles that we have going around the edge are just French knots and remember that the French knot is you wrap it three times around the needle again if you need a refresher on that I have a full video tutorial on French knots and you can click right here and that graphic will take you to that video okay so French knot in the center French knots all the way around the same exact thing we did here on this other side so now all we have left are these little leaves and this is where I want to show you something a little different so these two they may look the same to you on camera but in person I can tell that this one looks a little bit better to me just because it's more pronounced as far as the outline goes and so this uses first of all a back stitch going down the stem here but to fill in the leaves completely instead of just having an outline I went ahead and did a satin Stitch and I'm going to show you how to do that in a little bit but I wanted to show you two different ways if you just go in and do a line up the stem like right you see the little straight line here that's just the stem part of it if you just do the back stitches there and then you just start to fill in the actual little leaf part you're going to end up with something that looks like this so depending on how precise you are entering and exiting every single stitch you may or may not get really pronounced leaves right like the shape that kind of teardrop shape that we're looking for on this one however we get a more pronounced shape and that is because I outlined the entire Motif first in back stitches and then went back with my satin stitches and filled them in so it gives me kind of like a buffer Edge and then you can come in and fill them in with the satin Stitch inside of it so it's a little bit easier and again it gives you a more pronounced Edge now another difference is this is a lot more filled up it's a lot more textured and it's more raised and that's because I use four strands of embroidery floss on this one and on this one I just used two so although we have a more defined look on this one because of the outlining that I did initially it lays a little bit flatter as well so play around with the different strands that you're using how many of them you're using and then the different techniques that you can do as well so we're going to jump over here and I'm going to do the same thing uh on one of these on this side and show you how I do it so the first thing I need is to grab my embroidery floss and I'm using this really pretty green color I've already cut out a piece remember that the embroidery floss comes six strands all right so if you grab it on one end and you kind of tap it and flick it back and forth you can see them start to separate so I'm going to repeat what I've done initially on this bottom one here that I kind of like better than that that one and I'm going to use just two strands so to separate this if you cut off a really long piece it's going to get tangled on you so what you want to do is cut out a piece that measures uh no more than about 18 20 in or so and then I'm holding it at the top I'm going to want two strands okay so here's what I do there's four in one hand right and the two that I want in the other now I'm holding it right here separate on one hand and with my opposite hand I'm going to just hold it here and run my pointer finger down the center and it's gonna curl on you so kind of just uncurl it with your hand and do another chunk so you see how it's all twisted up on me right here I'm going to untwist it a little bit to get it to flow a little easier all right so we're coming down to the end here and I'm just going to finish separating them out perfect so I have two strands and four strands and I can save this for the rest of them cuz I still have two more batches of two strands right so for these we're going to use them and thread them through our embroidery needle all right so I have my embroidery needle and it's threaded I put a knot on the end of my floss here as well and I'm just going to start my back stitches and outline the entire little design here and you can do the leaves first you can do the whole stem part first you can definitely just jump around so I'm going to come in a little bit take one stitch and then on that more round part going up towards the point or the tip of that leaf I'm going to take break that up into two more stitches so there's one and now I can go up to the peak and get a really pronounced little tip there as I come down all right and then I'm going to come down on the opposite side of it and go right back in right at the peak so I can get that pronounced little tip that I want that looks good to me all right so as I'm coming across to do the last little leaf here I am going to share something with you notice the design looks super cute already just with the outline stitches so if you don't want to go and Venture off into the world of satin stitches which I'm going to show you next if you just want to keep it real simple with just the basic stitches that you've already learned in this series just leave it like this just like you're seeing it right here it still looks super cute if you just left it as an outline and so that's another thing to note when you're finding designs out there that you like and want to try out you don't have to do exactly what the designer or whoever the instructor is requires you to do you can always make things your own that's the beauty of handmade stuff right we can do whatever we want with it cuz we're the ones making it all right and the last little Stitch here and now this is kind of like a coloring book when we're kids that we outline the stuff and then shade it in on the inside that's how I used to do it so that that outline kind of gives you like that buffer Edge right so now when you start going in side to side you are a lot uh less likely to go outside of the lines right because you see where the darker line is to stop you so that's the same idea with this little outline here so now we'll go in and just fill in the leaves part of it with a satin Stitch and so the satin Stitch if you're not familiar with it is just a s Stitch that basically fills in empty space like this if you're familiar with machine embroidery often times that's pretty much what makes up a lot of those designs that are not just outline stitches it's the ones where it's just like it fills in it's a lot of thread gets taken up you know but it's just going to fill in the leaf so I'm going to start on one end and you can start in the middle if you want to if you notice that your stitches aren't being like exactly even side to side you can start in the middle and I'll show you that in the next thing but I'm just going to take a super teen py little Stitch right in the corner now I'm going to come over a little bit higher and keep in mind if you're using just two strands of floss like I am the two strands are not going to cover that much space so you really got to keep your stitches close so I'm coming up here and then I'm reaching in across on the other edge of the leaf to fill in that piece again I'm starting off on one end right here and then I'm going to come in on the opposite end or across from it so that I start filling in that empty space there in the Middle come over right here and jump all the way across here and you can see that those stitches are starting to get filled in and so this is going to take a little longer and we're just working on really tiny leaves here if you're going to do a satin Stitch to fill in a big space it's definitely going to take up a lot of thread and it'll take you a while but this is a good way to introduce you to um a new Stitch so really for this design all you need to know how to do is the back stitch your French knot and a satin Stitch if you wanted to do these uh fill the leaves in like I'm doing here all right I think we just need two more stitches one and then a really Teensy one right on the end all right so now you get the idea first outline them and then fill them in with the satin Stitch and then I'm going to go through and finish these off so we can move on to the next step in our project which is putting the tote bag together once you're done with the entire embroidery design that's it you're ready to put them together and finish off your tote so as you can see I went ahead and completed all the little leaf ones here and I filled them in with the satin Stitch but then I decided to just leave these as the outline so play around with whatever designs and the stitches that you want to use now that I'm looking at this actually I think this blue circle here would look great if I filled it in with a satin Stitch but for now I'm just going to leave it like this so remember just using back stitches French knots and some satin stitches you can complete this entire design now let's talk a little bit about color just to show you briefly the colors of the embroidery floss that I decided to use I always like to use thread or floss that creates a contrast between the background Fabric and the design itself I really wanted to use some white on here but white it was just too close to this pistachio color of the denim that I used so I decided to just go nice and bold with this pink kind of like a darker goldish color a nice blue and this darker green color for the leaves so play around with your colors and you can use as many as I did you can do it in one color or you can even use more than this so now that we're ready to un hoop our project from here we can now move on to the next step which is to complete our tote bag\n"