How to embroider a bouquet of flowers

Embroider a bouquet of flowers - Materials, design and step by step

Would you like to embroider a bouquet of flowers? I really like the embroidery of flower bouquets. There are many creative ideas that you can embroider. You can use your creativity or embroider designs from the web and embroidery magazines. Right away you can see a beautiful creation of Down Grapevina Lane.

Necessary materials to embroider a bouquet of flowers

To embroider this wonderful bouquet of very colorful flowers, you need the following materials:

• 8" Square Background Fabric
• 4" embroidery hoop - the pretty pink one I used is from Cosmo
• Embroidery thread in various colors
• Design to embroider

You can enlarge and print this design so you can embroider it easier:

Step by step tutorial

To get started, you can download the pattern, enlarge it and print it, in the correct size for the embroidery you want to do.

Next, trace the pattern onto the fabric. Look here how to draw a pattern on fabric. Stretch over the hoop, making sure the pattern is centered.

Use two strands of embroidery floss as follows:

• Large Pink Flower - French knot center, satin stitch petals, with a few extra dots in deeper red across the petals to add depth
• Blue flowers: satin stitch
• Blue buds: French knots
• Apricot flowers - satin point, with a lighter color for the center of the flower
• Yellow buds - satin point
• Red Buds - French Knots
• Pink drooping flowers - long and short stitch
• Stems along - back stitch
• Leaves - herringbone point

If you are not familiar with any of the above stitches or want to refresh yourself, you can find great tutorials on these stitches at embroiderysamano.net.

To finish, finish the back.

The final project looks like this... great...