Today, I’m going to embroider the main character in this underwater scene-Miss Fish.
I’ve worked the head and body of this fish with long and short stitch, using 2 strands of the 6-strand embroidery thread. Then, I made straight stitches on the mouth with 6-strand thread and 2 tiny stitches at the bottom for the fins (2 strands of pearl cotton no:8 thread). For the tail, I’ve decided to embroider pointed buttonhole-knot stitch. For each part of the tail, I’ve made 2 straight stitches, close to each other (2 strands for each stitch).
As you can see here, I’ve made buttonhole knots on the straight stitches (6 strands for the lips, 2 strands for the tail and 1 strand for the fins). Work buttonhole/blanket stitch for the fin on top. The scales are v-shaped fly stitches.
Work buttonhole knots on the fin with 2 strands (please refer frilled buttonhole stitch). The buttonhole knots on the scales were also done with 2 strands of thread. A googly eye completed the fish, and buttonhole wheels for the bubbles coming out of the fish’s mouth.
