![]() Pop a French knot in the centre, wrapping twice around the needle. (You can see this more clearly in my March video on Youtube.) Fill the open stitch with one or two straight stitches.įor the daffodils use two strands of yellow thread and make tiny star shapes with straight stitches. Use two strands of pink thread and make an open lazy daisy stitch with the catch at the base of the flower, near the stem. I made tulips in two different shades of pink one very pale pink and one sugary pink. Make French knots to fill the shape, tapering towards the tip of the flower head. Thread your needle with one strand of dark blue (a nice purply blue is good for this) and one strand of light blue thread. For the thicker leaves, make columns of back stitches close to each other to fill in the shape. Use one strand of mid-green thread and make small back stitches from the pot up towards the base of the flowers. I used DMC.ĭownload and trace the attached pdf (file at the foot of the page).īegin with the stems of the flowers. Stranded embroidery cotton: Dark pink, light pink, yellow, mid-green, beige, dark blue and light blue. It’s pretty quick to do even if you are quite new to embroidery and would work in stranded threads too if you already have some.5’ square of linen (I used a slubby antique hemp). You can also enter a giveaway at the bottom of the post to win one of the Passionflower boxes! And here is a link to download the FREE pattern for the Paisley Passion embroidery. ![]() There is a wonderful interview all about my favourite things, my new collection and these projects on the Auribuzz blog here today. The 12wt works so perfectly for hand quilting! Meanwhile I have been using my new threads for all sorts of hand quilting like my latest Siddi inspiredĬlass sample and my Ombre Sunset Clamshells piece which is destined to become a cushion (and hopefully get it’s very own post once completed!). ![]() You can watch this again on the Aurifil Facebook page here. We also had a launch for the collection on the Aurifil stand at Festival of Quilts last month and I gave a demo for a few of the stitches required for both the Passionflower and the new Paisley design. The new design is called Paisley Passion and I started it as soon as I got my hands on my new box! I just couldn’t wait to open all those yummy threads. If you are elsewhere in the world please ask your local Aurifil dealer to stock the box for you! You can still use the special discount code stitchpassion10 to get 10% off at checkout (both on line and in person). We’ve also re-stocked the thread collection box at myBearpaw and if you are in the UK you can purchase a box here, or in our Edinburgh store. As this is a quarterly publication you can still buy it for another couple of months. The Passionflower Pattern is available in the Embroiderer’s Guild ‘Stitch’ magazine. ![]() It contains 10 x 12wt spools in the beautiful shades I used for my Passionflower embroidery. I wrote about my Passionflower thread box in this post here. Today is the official launch of my new Passionflower thread collection on the Aurifil blog, and to celebrate I have designed a new embroidery pattern which you can download for FREE!
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