14 Ways to Do Embroidery on Clothing – Free Tutorials

Have you ever wanted to spruce up an old pair of jeans or a t-shirt?  Here are 14 wonderful ways to do it.  From hats to jeans, and almost everything in between, these tutorials will get you inspired to do some needlework on your clothing.

1. Learn how to do some embroidery on the shoulders of sweaters with this helpful tutorial.
2. Tired of your plain baseball cap?  Learn how to jazz it up with some beautiful and feminine floral embroidery demonstrated by Beth Colletti.
3. Make over an old denim skirt with this pretty hand embroidery tutorial.
4. Sum of Their Stories shows us how to embroider a denim shirt.
5. Oh Joy! has three different and whimsical designs to add to your clothing.
6. Who doesn’t want an embroidered jeans jacket?  Flax & Twine shows you how to do it yourself with this tutorial.
7. Honestly WTF wrote this tutorial showing you how to embroidery on a pair of jeans.  Fun!
8. Learn how to embroider a pretty bouquet of flowers to a pair of jeans with this tutorial from Instructables.
9. Here’s another method for adding embroidery to a jeans jacket.  This tutorial is from Lauren Conrad.
10. The Creative Fashion Blog has a tutorial demonstrating 3 ways to embroider jeans.
11. If you have ever wanted to embroider a design on a t-shirt, this tutorial from Upcycle Clothing Designer will show you how.
12. Here’s a simple daisy embroidery pattern for jeans from Dossier.
13. The Crafty Mummy shows us how to mend jeans and make them look good with sashiko stitching.
14. If you’ve ever wanted to try punch needle embroidery on jeans, here’s a tutorial showing you how to do it.