DIY Embroidered Leggings

February 24, 2021

DIY Embroidered Leggings

Embroidering your own clothes gives a personalized look to your clothes. Additionally, embroidering is a useful tool to cover up holes that can be seen when the clothing item is worn. It is a good idea to update your old leggings before getting rid of the clothing item. You can embroider anything that you like onto the pair of leggings. Here is the tutorial for making your embroidered leggings with embroidered butterflies.

Materials:

1 pair of leggings

1 color of embroidery thread/floss

Embroidery needle

Scissors

Stencil of a butterfly (optional)

Embroidery hoop

Fabric marker

Wash one pair of leggings and wait for the leggings to be dry. Next, using a fabric marker and a stencil draw a butterfly onto the fabric. However, if you do not have a fabric marker or stencil, you can still make a butterfly by making two heart shapes to make the butterfly. After the outline is done with the embroidery thread, you continue adding different stitches to the butterfly. Also, do not worry if the butterflies look uneven or come out in different sizes.

In this example, one butterfly is smaller on the left side of the leggings because it was placed near a hole the leggings previously had. However, the embroidered butterfly covered the hole that the pair of leggings had. After you are done embroidering the three butterflies on one side of the leggings, repeat the same steps for the second side of the leggings. This embroidery project will take approximately three or four days to do. Below are more resources and more ways to embroider your leggings.