Flower Embroidery Stitch Along Pt 1

Wildflower Embroidery Designs

🖤 Welcome to this fun embroidery stitch along, where you’ll combine easy beginner-friendly embroidery stitches to create 7 common flowers and learn techniques you can use to stitch many others. Download a free pattern and follow along as you explore the world of embroidery!

Flowers are some of the most popular designs to embroider, and it’s easy to see why. With so many colors, shapes, and forms to choose from, you’ll never run out of inspiration. That’s why I’ve put together this flower embroidery stitch along—to help you master these gorgeous designs while keeping it simple and fun.

In this part one of the flower embroidery tutorial, we’ll cover the first 4 flowers and finish the rest in part 2. To hand embroider flowers, you don’t need any fancy stitches. In fact, basic embroidery stitches are all you need to create beautiful, detailed flowers, and that’s exactly what I’ll use for these patterns. This flower embroidery tutorial is perfect for embroidery for beginners, but I recommend checking out my individual stitch tutorials beforehand. Becoming familiar with the stitches will make the process easier and more enjoyable, so I highly recommend giving them a look. I’ll include clickable links throughout this post for easy access.

Flower Embroidery Stitch Along

Each of the flowers are kept simple as far as design goes, so nothing super fancy because it’s meant to be beginner-friendly. It should act as a base from which you can add your own style later on. Regardless, simple can still create some really pretty things.

Table of Contents

1. Rose

STEPS

Create the rose with the woven wheel with 6 strands of dmc #666

  • Add 5 straight stitches to divide the circle into pie shapes.
  • Bring needle up at the center and weave over and under each stitch as you go around and around until you’ve covered the circle. Use the blunt end of the needle if the point snags onto your fabric.
rose embroidery pattern with red thread creating a pie and a needle beginning the woven wheel.

Use your fingers to gently push the thread into place when needed, and take your time. Fluff out the woven wheel with your needle when you’re done.

Use the satin stitch and 6 strands of dmc #3346 to create the leaves. Simply add each stitch from one end of the leaf to the other until it’s covered.

woven wheel embroidery stitched rose

Tips:

  • If you should run out of thread before you’re finished just push your needle to the back next to a straight stitch then return back up with your new thread near that and continue.
  • If you can still see the tips of the straight stitches when you’re finished weaving you can add a few straight stitches around the outside which will curve around your rose and cover them up.

2. Daisy

STEPS

Use the lazy daisy stitch to create each petal using 6 strands of white.

  • Make a closed loop by coming up and back the same hole along the circle.
  • Come up at the top of the petal guidelines, through the loop.
  • Return to the back at the top of the loop on the outside of it.
  • Do this for each petal. 
stitching the petals of a daisy in white thread

Create the center with the lazy daisy stitch and use 6 strands of dmc #743. Use 2 wraps:

  • Come up to the top of your fabric and wrap your thread twice around your needle.
  • Push needle halfway back into the fabric and gently pull thread until the wraps hug the needle.
  • Then pull needle through from the back to form a knot on the front.
daisy flower embroidery

3. Cosmos

STEPS

Create the petals with 6 strands of dmc #604 using the satin stitch.

  • Divide each shape into 2 or 3 sections, then fill each section OR simply fill starting from one end to the other.
  • To keep it from getting too bulky near the center, make some of your straight stitches shorter so they return to the back a few millimeters away from the center. Use nearby stitches to cover the gap.
  • Fill the center in with 6 strands of dmc #743 using french knot. Just like the daisy flower, use 2 wraps.
cosmos flower with arrows pointing to the french knots and satin stitch

4. Lavender

STEPS

Use the stem stitch with 4 strands of dmc #3346 to create the stem

  • Make a small stitch
  • Come up a small gap length away
  • Nudge the previous stitch over to the right and return to the back
  • Repeat. 
stem of a lavender flower being stitched

Use 6 strands of dmc #3836 to create the flowers with the lazy daisy stitch.

  • Make a closed loop
  • Push needle up at the top of the loop, on the inside
  • Stitch down the loop by returning to the back at the top of the loop, on the outside.
lavender embroidery flower

Head over to part 2 of this flower embroidery tutorial for 3 more flowers.

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