Straight stitch hand embroidery flower designs free download

Some on her dolls clothes or blankets would be interesting for her. We were out there for her 2nd birthday and I wrote the number 2 for her on a plain piece of paper. She said it was a nose! Her right brain often comes to the fore but that one has intrigued me the most.

After we came back I showed my parents. Cheers, Kath PS, My granddaughter is the only, and may be the only, grandchild so I unashamedly claim bragging rights! Thanks for listening. Hello Mary, Lovely flowers… I was showing some black work to my sister and she wanted to learn embroidery and… not being a teacher and being a beginner I was tickle to see todays article. I will show her how to do some simple stitches like your flowers, they are beautiful then…blackwork. Such lovely flowers and soooooos beautiful and simple.

You inspire me each day how do you think up such wonderful ideas. Mary, The flowers are simply perfect. Couls you show the whole project that these flowers are stitched on? Thanks in advannce, Sandy. Here you go inspiring us again! These are awesome little flowers that would really give a relaxing experience. So simple and yet so beautiful. Love your color selections … Thanks for the eye candy! Lovely post. Thank you for the reminder. While there are all sorts of complex stitches than can look very effective, to me, simple stitches done well are more effective than anything.

Trace the hand embroidery design on to your fabric — I would suggest putting in the shading as well so it gives you a directional guide and placement for the second colour in the middle of the petals. With , split stitch around the entire outer edge of the petal you want to start with. Next, stitch long and short stitch to fill in the top half of the petal using your shading as a guide of where to stitch up to. You can see the petal I started with in this photo which has been completed and the outer edges of a few others I will be stitching next.

Continue stitching the whole of the flower, one petal at a time in the same way with long and short stitch. Fill the centre with little curls of split stitch both in orange and mauve to fill the area and culing in different directions. For the Daisy petals choose 2 contrasting colours — one for the main colour and the second for adding some contrast over the top.

I used DMC stranded threads — 2 strands for all the stitching. When all the petals are satin stitched in the main colour, take 2 strands of your chosen contrasting colour and stitch long vertical straight stitches around the flower — 2 on each petal and sometimes in between the petals where there is a gap.

Using a third colour, straight stitch around the centre of the flower as in the photo. When you get to the bottom of the vines, make sure the last stitch connects to the rest of the embroidery! Knot off between each vine and continue working your way around.

This is what the embroidery should look like when you're done. Now we'll start the other set of vines using the stem stitch. We'll stitch the stems of the vines using the stem stitch, and then add the leaves in the next step! Bring the needle up for the next stitch to the left or right side of the first one, right in the middle.

Continue stitching, starting every new stitch to the side of the previous one. Here's what the front and back of the stitches will look like.

Now we'll add some leaves to these vines! While this is called the petal stitch, I hardly ever use it for flowers! I always use it for leaves on vines. Now let's walk through this stitch in photos! I'm using the same floss color as I did for the stem stitch base, but feel free to use a different color for the leaves. Bring the needle to the front of the fabric right at the end of the stem stitch. Now, insert your needle a couple threads above where you came out of the fabric, and glide the tip of the needle to the end of the leaf.

Loop the end of the floss around the end of the needle and begin to pull it through. You'll see a knot start forming! Keep pulling and the floss will form a cute little loop. Now, much like the fly stitches, we're going to tack down the end. Make a tiny stitch over it to the other side of the loop. Here's what a finished petal stitch should look like when it's done! Move down to the next set of leaves and stitch them the same way. When you start moving between the sets of leaves on the vines, use the weaving method to get your floss back into the middle of the vine to move down cleanly.

Your floral sampler is almost completed! Now we're going to fill in the spaces around the flowers with French knots. There's no right amount of filling here - what I've done is just what looked nice to me! If the fabric is loose, it will stretch and warp the weave of the fabric, making it harder for the floss and needle to go through. Also: you can wrap the needle one, two, three, I don't know how many times!

Don't feel limited to wrapping the needle once. The more you wrap the floss, the larger the knot will be. I want tiny ones here, so that's why I'm wrapping once. Bring the needle to the front of the fabric right near one of the flowers and pull the floss through. Loop it over the needle once from the front and around the back. Push the needle back into the fabric right near where you exited.

Hold the floss tail tight in one hand and pull the needle through with the other. If the needle does not want to pull through, you may be hitting a knot or other obstruction on the back of the fabric, so check that and try again. Once the needle goes through the fabric, you can let go of the floss tail.

Though some people prefer to hold it the whole time. When you're done, the back may be pretty messy, but that's okay. You don't have to worry too much about carrying the floss all over here, since it's hidden by the flowers and leaves!

I hope you've enjoyed this instructable!