Dahlias, strawberries and butterfly
You will find below the generalities and the first steps in the realization of this project.
Although this embroidery is mainly done with long and short stitch, while working on it you will have the opportunity to use a variety of stitches that you are probably familiar with and whose explanations can be found in the stitch catalog available in the “Stitches” menu.
The finished project measures about 23/20 cm. I chose to embroider it on vanilla colored linen and with DMC stranded cotton. As I work on it, I would like to focus on the possibility of using the wide range of colors offered by DMC through the petals of the dahlias and the wings of the butterfly (which lend themselves particularly well) to make beautiful camaieux using long and short stitch.
As usual, you can download the design of this embroidery in the menu “Patterns 2021”.
This project will be the subject of several articles and I will put online the colors used for each pattern. I will also guide you, with many explanations and arrows, on placing the colors in each pattern.
Without a special note, long and short stitch, satin stitch, and split backstitch stitch used in this work have to be done with only 1 thread.
I know that many of you are afraid of long and short stitch work, so I would like to emphasize that in this project this exercise is very basic. The success of this project lies in the correct placement of the colors.
Yellow dahlia
The threads used to make this dahlia are
Stranded DMC cotton 3078, 727, 3822, 3821, 742, 740 and 900.
…and here is the detailed realization
After outlining the petals in the background with a split backstitch, embroider them with satin stitch (because they are so small) and color 3821.
Embroider the upper part of the middle petals of the flower with color 3822 and with color 3821 for the base. Start embroidering the petals in the front of the corolla with color 3078.
Continue the gradient by adding the color 727…
…then with the color 3822.
Finish by adding a few stitches with color 3821 at the base of each petal.
To make the center of the dahlia, first, embroider several rows of juxtaposed stem stitches rounds with 2 threads and color 742, then continue with 2 threads and 2 wraps French knots and color 740. Finish with a few stitches of satin stitch with color 900.
Dahlias, strawberries and butterfly final part
Dahlias, strawberries and butterfly complete butterfly Below you will find the necessary explanations to complete the butterfly. ThreadsTo embroider this butterfly, I used the colors: DMC 918, 3776, 722, 3787, 642, 3747, 3840, 3839, 3838, 820The upper wingMark the...
Dahlias, strawberries and butterfly part 7
Dahlias, strawberries and butterfly Butterfly, lower wing You will find below the necessary explanations to make the lower wing of the butterfly.The threadsTo embroider this butterfly, I used the colors DMC 918, 3776, 722, 3787, 642, 3747, 3840, 3839, 3838, 820...
Dahlias, strawberries and butterfly part 6
Dahlias, strawberries and butterfly Large bicolor dahlia You will find below the necessary explanations for the realization of this magnificent bicolored dahlia. The threadsThe threads used to embroider this flower are DMC 745, 967, 3341, 502 and 304Embroider the...
Dahlias, strawberries and butterfly, part 5
Dahlias, strawberries and butterfly Strawberries, small dahlias, figs and black currants Below you will find the explanations for the second group of strawberries, the figs, the two small dahlias and the black currant. First of all the second group of strawberries...
Dahlias, strawberries and butterfly part 4
Dahlias, strawberries and butterfly Leaves You will find below the explanations necessary for the realization of a whole series of leaves that garnish this work.All of these leaves are embroidered with long and short stitch using 1 thread with the center vein done in...
Dahlias, strawberries and butterfly, part 3
Dahlias, strawberries and butterfly The large pink and red dahlia You will find below the explanations necessary for the realization of this dahlia.The petals of this flower are embroidered exclusively with long and short stitch. The center is made also with long and...
Dahlias, strawberries and butterfly part 2
Dahlias, strawberries and butterfly Strawberries You will find below the explanations necessary for the realization of these strawberries.These strawberries and their leaves are done with long and short stitch but to bring a little variety to this work, I chose a...
Dahlias, strawberries and butterfly
Dahlias, strawberries and butterfly You will find below the generalities and the first steps in the realization of this project. Although this embroidery is mainly done with long and short stitch, while working on it you will have the opportunity to use a variety of...