How to embroider flowers

Embroidery is an ancient art, known since ancient times, and still not losing relevance and popularity among the female population. With embroidery you can create as independent paintings, and to decorate clothing, furnishings, furniture, towels, tablecloths, and more. Floral motifs in the embroidery known since ancient times, and by learning to embroider flowers in different ways, you will open up a lot of room for creativity.

Instruction

1. For embroidery you will need a thick cloth or canvas, stretched on a Hoop, embroidery needle and colored floss.
2. Embroider flowers can be a variety of seams "forward needle", "back needle, chain stitch, buttonhole stitch, vintage stitch "Rococo", naviauxella needle seam "goat", nodular stitches, twisted stitches, French knots, coral stitch, the thread-fastening, and many others. Such seams can be used not only for embroidery flowers themselves, but also for embroidery of leaves and stems.
3. The simplest seam is a seam "forward a needle". To embroider a flower or leaf this stitch, enter the needle into the fabric from right to left, piercing the fabric so that the seam formed by the dotted line. The line wasn't dotted, and solid, reaching the end of the dotted line, repeat the seam in the opposite direction, closing the gaps. This seam is convenient to trace the outline colors in the embroidery.
4. Seam "back needle" like a seam "forward a needle" the only difference is that the needle always pierces the fabric behind the yarn, leaving at the same time on two stitches forward.
5. Original and bright can make a flower, made using a cross-seam "goat". To make this stitch, insert the needle from the bottom up and lead it from left to right, performing the cross stitches on the front side.
6. On the wrong side must be parallel to the line of dashed stitches. You can vary this cross-seam, depending on what use it is this seam can be created with threads of different colors, it can also make double or triple, combining the appropriate colors. If you move the stitches "goat" close to each other, you'll have a seam "pigtail".
7. A popular stitch for an embroidery plant is stalk stitch. Even running stitches tightly stacked next to each other from left to right. Stalk stitch is well suited for embroidery the stems and the edges of the flowers.
8. For this purpose, suitable seam "chain", also called a tambour. On the wrong side so the seam looks like a number of major lines, and on the front – as a chain of connected loops. Also the loops can be isolated from each other, attaching them as a separate stitch to the fabric.
9. Very often, the embroidery colors used quiet – the ancient technique of embroidery. In combination with other stitches like surface looks nice and expressive. To embroider the flower surface, first apply the fabric to the contours that you fill dense stitches – vertical, horizontal or oblique. Contours you can embroider stalked seam or a seam "forward a needle".
10. Unusual decoration of any flower will become a seam of "Rococo", for which it is necessary to withdraw the thread on the front side of the fabric and make a stitch "back needle". On the tip of the needle navathe a few turns of thread of the desired size, then pull the needle and thread through the fabric, holding the wound with his finger. Secure the wrapped fabric, puncture the tissue near the first puncture, and withdrawing the needle out.