The blue cat’s garden
This garden is especially for the embroiderers participating in my group classes.
After having successfully embroidered a first work entitled “How to embroider a garden with 9 basic stitches”, these students, often beginners, expressed the wish to continue the adventure by creating a new garden to have the opportunity to learn new stitches.
Here is the garden that I have prepared for them and that we will work on in the fall.
It goes without saying that by publishing this article I am also making this work available to the visitors of this blog. You will find the explanations and pictures below as well as the drawing to download HERE or directly in the menu “Patterns 2022” as usual.
For this work, you will not find any indication of colors because I know by experience that one of the main pleasures related to the realization of a subject such as this one is to compose its own garden according to one’s own taste and in all freedom.
You will find the explanations of all the stitches used in this work in the “Stitches” section of this blog.
Embroider the leaves of the hollyhocks in fishbone stitch with 1 thread. Embroider the corollas of the flowers in blanket stitch with 1 thread and the centers in French knot with 2 threads and 2 wraps.
Embroider the leaves of the rose bush in lazy daisy stitch with 2 threads and the roses in spider web stitch with 4 mm silk ribbon. Embroider the body of the cat in long and short stitch with 1 thread, the tail with 2 rows of stem stitch 2 threads and finish with small straight stitches 1 thread for the whiskers.
Embroider the branches of the tree in stem stitch and the leaves in lazy daisy stitch, all with 2 threads.
Embroider the 2 flower pots in satin stitch with 1 thread. Embroider the begonias in the back pot in spider web stitch and the leaves in lazy daisy stitch, all with 2 threads. For the front pot of salvias, embroider the leaves in fishbone stitch with 1 thread and then add 3 flowering branches in fly stitch with 2 threads.
Embroider the butterfly tree flower clusters with 2 threads 2 wraps French knots and the leaves using straight stitches with 2 threads. Make the leaves of the sunflowers in close fly stitch with 2 threads. Embroider the petals of the flowers in lazy daisy – bullion stitch with 2 threads and the centers in French knot 2 threads and 2 wraps.
