Stephanie of Ridgewood Needlepoint has posted articles in her New Stitch Monday column about stitching flower petals, complete with stitch diagrams and tips on how she used beads in the center of her sunflower.
Stephanie has switched to a design with flowers and leaves, so she also has leaf stitches for us.
Stephanie has listed quite a few simple leaf stitch diagrams in this posting.
It's back to the center of a sunflower this time.
And now the leaves next to the sunflower.
More leaves on this Laura Love design.
This time Stephanie is doing the maple leaf. As a special touch, she added Accentuate (a very thin metallic) to the overdyed silk from Thread Gatherers and says it looks great.
This week Stephanie tackles smaller leaves, using Thread Gatherer's Silk N Colors (which I agree is a terrific thread). If you want to experiment with Silk N Colors, visit the second link below.
The ferns are especially lovely but she does some nice small brown leaves, too.
Next is the sunflower and its leaves. The petals are in ribbon stitches. Search for Japanese ribbon stitch to see how to do the outer row. The inner row is just satin stitches in ribbon. Stephanie gives two options for the little leaves around the sunflower.
The final floral motif on this design are small yellow flowers, which get three different stitches and beads!
The last bit of this canvas is the background and the lettering.
Here is the canvas finished and framed.
Poppy Monk Needlepoint recommends a stitch they call Diamond Leaves for leaves and tree trunks. Since we are talking leaves and flower petals, I thought I'd put that here as well.
Stephanie is working on a traditional Tobacco Leaf design for her next project. Her yellow-green leaf is done in all Nobuko Stitch, which is very popular among needlepointers for large areas.
The navy leaf is a familiar stitch with some great tips for stitching it.
More leaves are done on the Tobacco Leaf design.
Adrienne is working on an Alice Peterson still life of tulips in a vase.
This step works the tablecloth, using Nobuko with Gloriana silk (which is a lovely lovely silk, by the way).
The tulips look great in interlocking Gobelin.
Adrienne is now working stems and leaves for the tulips.
I'm not sure what lines are being stitched--maybe the rows on the vase?
The Alice Peterson tulips still life is done!
The next floral (stitched by Stephanie) is Raymond Crawford's "Pumpkin Floral." Here you see it stitched and framed.
Stephanie found the perfect background stitch in The Pointer Sisters' We Have Your Back Ground Stitches.
Then she tackled the pumpkin.
Finally, the acorns were done in various stitches, then an oak leaf finished the piece.
The maple leaf stitch is a favorite of Stephanie's.
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
© Copyright April 23, 2024 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.
