In one of my posts last year, I’d written about long and
short stitch direction rules. Please click here for the post. Those
of you following my blogs must have read my experiments using these rules to
improve my long and short stitch. I’d tried 2 different types of leaves and I’m
satisfied with both results. I would love to embroider more complicated leaves
using this method but today, I would like to share with you a simple long and
short flower which I’d embroidered. This flower doesn’t have overlapping petals,(
a continuous petal) so it’s quite easy
to embroider.
For this flower, the
point of attachment between the petal and the stem is the small dot in the
center. Split stitch or outline stitch the flower before starting the long and
short embroidery.
As in my long and
short leaf 2, I didn’t draw the directional lines on the flower pattern. Rather,
I just held the thread toward the dot and stitch into that direction. Starting
from the middle, stitch all the way to the left, alternating long and short
stitches. Then, embroider from the middle to the right. Here, I’d finished the
first row.
Finished the second
row. As you can see here, I’d started embroidering on the second part of the
petal, from the middle to the left.
Continue in this
manner for the whole petal.
The next row is
white. I just started from one point, worked long and short stitches in
clockwise position till I came back to the starting point. All the while, I
pointed the stitches toward the small dot.
Fill the center with
French knots.
