Honey Bee Embroidery Pattern

 I have a new hand embroidery pattern available in my Etsy shop.

Here is a look at the pattern set: 

I will be back to share all the stitch and floss color details I used on this bee soon!

Torocko Stitch

I have a new stitch from my 100 Stitches list to share.  This is the Torocko Stitch.  

Categorized as a filling stitch, the Torocko Stitch is made up of three sets of Straight Stitches.  I used three different colors of perle cotton thread.  I also drew a helpful square grid to keep everything evenly spaced.  Notice the blue dots, that is where my vertical and horizontal lines will start and stop: 

The first step is to come up through the fabric at the top of the area to be filled:

Make a long vertical Straight Stitch by going down into the fabric at the bottom of the area to be filled:

Repeat those vertical stitches, evenly spaced as many times as needed to fill the space.  

Now for the horizontal stitches.  Come up through the fabric on the right side of the area to be filled:

Make long horizontal Straight Stitches across the space:

The next step is to make upright crosses over the horizontal Straight Stitches:

Form these crosses using Straight Stitches:

Forming a cross at alternating rows and columns:

The final step is to make a small diagonal Straight Stitch at the center of each cross:

This stitch is from the book Embroidery Stitches by Mary Webb.

Knit and Crochet Love

This love motif is from my Knit and Crochet embroidery pattern set.

I am so happy with the embroidered version! 

For the "yarn" I used Stem Stitch and for the text, Back Stitch.  The yarn ball is filled with Straight Stitch.

The floss used on the text and yarn is perle cotton.  The yarn ball is filled with 2 strands of 6 strand cotton floss.  The color for both the perle cotton and the 6 strand is DMC #3801.  

Knit and Crochet Embroidery Pattern

 I have a new embroidery pattern set in my shop.  This one is called Knit and Crochet.  

I have stitched up this motif from the set:

Here is my stitch information. The lettering, the kitten's arms, lips, eye lashes,  and knitting needles are all Back Stitch.  The knitting "project" is Chain Stitch.  The eyes, nose and hearts are Satin Stitch.  The outline and ears of the kitty are Straight Stitch:

Here are the floss color numbers I used: 

Embroidered Beach Pillow Project - Part Two

I have an update to share on my embroidered pillow.  You may remember this project from a previous post.

The embroidery is all finished on the front pillow panel:

For the feather end of the arrow, I used the Pistil Stitch:  

Next up is to do the back panel - this will have a row of star fish:

When I complete that, I will do a follow up post with all the stitch and thread color information.

Teddy Bear on a Swing Embroidery - Part Four

There is a little bit of progress to share on my teddy bear embroidery.  His face is filled in - mainly in Long and Short Stitch. 

I am experimenting on how to fill in the big tree trunk.  The whorls in the bark are made using Stem Stitch.  I am not sure if I will continue with the lines of Back Stitch to fill in all of the blank area.  As you can see from the motif, there is no line to define the left-side border of the trunk:

To finish this trunk, perhaps a sort of fading effect could be done by reducing the amount of stitches and plies of floss out to the edge...?

Color Palette Inspiration

 

You may remember from previous posts, that I keep a color palette inspiration journal.  I like to match embroidery floss to the inspiration colors.

The inspiration palette can be from anywhere - paper samples, photographs, postcards or magazine clippings. I recently found this picture of a travel poster in an old magazine.  I love the colors! 

I added this to my journal: 

To add a sample of the floss and note the color number,  I fold over the edge of the page:

punch holes

and add the floss samples:

I list the corresponding number on the back of the page.  If you are interested in the color numbers for this palette, they are {in top to bottom order} DMC 3860, 3774, 3801, 319, 3770 and 310.