Friday, July 20, 2018

Flowers


I was  hoping for some sort of epiphany about which stitch to use for the flowers, like yesterday's one for the leaves, but no. I tried long and short stitch (or short and very short stitch perhaps) but it was just a mess. I made even more of a mess when I tried to undo it. I think the chain stitch outline works better. The centre of the flower is worked in buttonhole stitch. So there are four different stitches in the little flower - chain stitch, buttonhole stitch, straight stitch and French knots.

8 comments:

  1. I like the way you are using different stitches, looks lovely

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  2. Makes me want to find my embroidery hoop! Love the chain stitch flower

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  3. I think you are brave to do the chain stitch in such tiny flowers, with so many curves! But you have succeeded beautifully :-)))) I like the raised effect the buttonhole stitch have created! Oh, my fingers itch to embroider again!!!

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  4. It has been many years since I tried any embroidery, we used to put flowers on our jeans back then. Great work.

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