embroider a Pride Froggy

1. Pick your pride flags. The flags Froggy is holding are completely up to you. I recommend the ones with straight lines if you’re a beginner, but the pride is your oyster! Keep your choices in mind when purchasing thread colours as the colours I’ve suggested are for the pride flag and trans flag.

2. Buy your supplies! I recommend a visit to the near constant sales of Lincraft and Spotlight for DMC brand embroidery threads. If this is outside your price range, starter packs of embroidery thread come with all the colours you should need for this project. Or use some of your flag colours for Froggy to keep thread purchasing down!

3. Trace the pattern (page 64) onto your piece of fabric. There are plenty of tutorials online for the easiest ways to do this. Use the example image to work out which colours will go where.

4. Ensure your fabric is taught in the embroidery hoop and you’re ready to start stitching!

5. Backstitch your Froggy body, then the Froggy stomach.

6. Backstitch the flag sticks in Froggy’s hands.

7. Starting at the top of the flags, use 3 backstitches for each colour in the pride flag and the trans flag.

8. Finally, give Froggy some personality. Separate the thread you’re using for the eyes and mouth so that you’re only working with 2 strands. Use French knots for the eyes and a backstitch for the mouth.

9. Finish Froggy off with single stitches under the eyes for blush.

10. Take Froggy off the hoop and iron the reverse side of the fabric (if you used heat erase pens) or wash your embroidery (if you used a pencil, look up a tutorial for this). Finish your embroidery however you want (YouTube is your friend again…)! You can frame it, hot glue a back on the hoop, or gather the excess fabric at the back.

11. Display Froggy, and send us a picture if you’ve made your own!

1. 54

2. Tim Curry

3. False! They are a method of STI protection.

4. Jughead Jones (shame on you Roberto!)

5. 12 Sept 2017 – 7 Nov 2017

6. To represent people of colour (POC), as they have been excluded from the movement despite being the driving force

7. Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) from The Wizard of Oz

8. pink monkey bird

9. Law lecturer (Bonus point: University of Adelaide)

10. Alice Oseman

11. *vomits* J.K. Rowling

12. Spankie Jackzon

13. If you’re reading this, the answer is obviously yes.

14. MARY’S POPPIN

15. bros, hot, five, apart, gay

16. Obviously false! Babe, if you genuinely thought otherwise please get some help.

17. 10 (feeling old yet?)

18. As a feminist, she desired “a deeper debate about the role of marriage”, having acted under the mistaken belief that “this was the moment” for it.

19. Hephaestion

20. Are you kidding?

1000% smash (and I don’t mean in her ‘Vanessa’ form either).