Flower embroidery day 3: Going 3D
Let’s talk about the most fun part of embroidery: Going 3D! Embroidery in itself is much more plastic than pure drawing or painting, but there are stitches and methods to …
Let’s talk about the most fun part of embroidery: Going 3D! Embroidery in itself is much more plastic than pure drawing or painting, but there are stitches and methods to …
Welcome to day 2 of the flower embroidery days! Today, you’ll learn how to embroider chain stitch flowers! The name lazy daisy already gives us a hint which flower it …
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Let’s start with the first part of the flower series: how to embroider woven flowers. What is a woven flower? It’s created by spiraling the thread around a center point. …
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Satin stitch is widely used as a fill stitch. The name comes from the smooth surface similar to the surface of the fabric called satin. The satin stitch consists of …
Variation 2 This stitch starts with a simple row of herringbone stitch. It should not be too small in scale, because the bars over the stitches can cover up the …
Variation 5 This variation is actually a combination of 2 Herringbone stitch rows. The smaller stitch is stitched in a contrast color and half the thickness of the bigger row. …
Variation 4 For this version you wrap the previous stitch before making the next one. I would call this stitch wrapped herringbone, probably there is a real name out there. …
Variation 3 For this variation, you embroider three herringbone stitches over another. You start with a taller than wide herringbone stitch. You can do this stitch variation in one color, …
Variation 1 This variation creates a textured stitch pattern like a woven basket. Above you can see the difference between the stitch done in one direction and changed directions. For …
Right at the beginning of my embroidery learning journey several years ago I made a herringbone stitch sampler with herringbone variations I found in an old stitch booklet. This sampler …