Hand Embroidery Tutorial - Leaf Stitch

Dears,

I actually do not know the name of this stitch in English as this is common stitch which is part of the world I grew up and learnt it from my mother. This looks like a satin stitch but this is not. In this stitch we hold the long stitch by a shot stitch in the middle, the middle comes very handy when we do large flowers or leaves. For example if you try to fill a big flower with satin stitch, you can't cover the flower with long strains, rather you have to do with short satin stitch. In this this, we can do very long strains without the strains moving after wash. (I will do another example on how to use for long flowers soon)
For now, you can look at this tutorial and enjoy :)

Step 1:
For the bullion rose, please refer my bullion rose tutorial
http://dollylaishram.blogspot.com/2015/03/bullion-rose-tutorial.html

Step 2:
Please follow each pictures properly and I am sure you will get perfectly as this is a very easy stitch

Step 3:
In this step, the needle comes up in the middle on the left hand side of the thread

Step 4:
And then insert the needle on the right side of the thread around the middle. Please refer the pic carefully

Step 5:
This shows one complete stitch. Now let's fill the leaf

Step 6:
Repeat the same from the step 3

Step 7 :

Step 8:
One side leaf completed

Step 9:
A full leaf looks like this

Step 10:
The completed motif

Bullion rose Tutorial

Spring is the perfect time to start hand embroidery project. If you are new to hand embroidery, I suggest you start with a small project which can be completed in few minutes of sitting.

Today I am sharing hoe to do Bullion rose embroidery, this is a great embroidery which is used widely in Brazilian embroidery.

If you have any trouble understanding the step, please drop a comment and I will write you back

Step 1:
The first and foremost thing is to make short lines like the one in my image below to give you the shape of the rose. As you become experience, you will be able to do it even without making such diagram. However if you want to make similar roses, its always good to make one diagram on a transferable paper which can be reuse

Step 2:
In this step, please see how the threat is wrapped to the needle

Step 3:
In this step, it is important to make the length of the thread wrap a little longer than the line to give u a little curvy shape

Step 4:
Repeat the same from step 1 to step 3 for each line

Step 5:
This is a trick to perform when you do step 3 in order to get the thread coil perfect. Slightly press the threat coil by the left thumb while your right hand pulls the needle though

Step 6:
It is good to start with 2 tiny parallel lines for the rose shape

Step 7:
 Follow the same process for each petal or line

Step 8:

This is how the final rose will look like. Happy stitching...

The next tutorial is the leaf tutorial for this rose. Keep watching this page