There are a hundred ways you can make embroidered roses with chain stitch. Roses are a favourite in cross stitch embroidery. The inner part is filled with more stitches with a darker shade of the same color.įinish with an outline stitch between petals to emphasize and delineate them 11. This rose embroidery design is filled with long and short stitches – but instead of a single strand, the whole 6 strands of the embroidery threads are used in the needle.įirst, the outline is done with the long and short stitches with a light coloured thread. Checkout the post on Needle painting for more on this embroidery technique Needle painting uses long and short stitch to fill the inside of the rose design.When different shades are combined the gradation effect of the long and short stitch can make your work look like a painting – though mine is a long way from looking like one.
This rose is worked by making a center full of french knots and then working straight stitches around the center to look like petals. Checkout the post on metallic thread embroidery for details on sewing with metallic thread This rose is made by passing the needle through the bullion metallic thread cut into small pieces and making loops around a center. Checkout the post on zardosi embroidery work tutorial for more details.
You can make these roses with a loop stitch made in a circle shape. When you make a number of them together they can take on the look of a rose. French knot rosesįrench knot by themselves look like a beautiful rose, but they are very small. Make the small leaves by making straight stitches like a V in the bottom end of the flower. Make 2-3 similar stitches around the french knot slightly overlapping the previous one. Smooth the bullion by rubbing the wraps between thumb and finger tie off. When you have completed all the wraps, pull the needle through. Wrap as many times around the needle as possible with enough room at the top to get a hold of the needle. Use milliner needles with the eye the same size as the shank for making the bullion stitches.įirst, as usual, put the needle in and out of fabric, with tip and eye showing. Checkout the post on Bullion stitch embroidery for more details. Complete the whole circle and then take the needle to the back and knot again.įor the bullion knot roses a small french knot is made first and then the bullion knots are made around the french knot. Take another sharp needle and the same colour thread (one strand) and make a web with 9 tails like the one in picture below.īring up the blunt needle from the center of the star stitch and start to Weave the thread under and over the stitches. You have to take the full strand of embroidery floss (with 6 threads) twice on a blunt needle. This flower is an easy one and 3 dimensional. Checkout the ribbon embroidery flower tutorial for more details From simple french knot roses to frilled and gathered roses there are many options for you if you want to work your rose embroidery work with ribbons. Ribbon embroidery work can be used to make the most beautiful roses ever.
If you use a cast on stitch rose like the one in the post on 3D flower embroidery post inside the blanket stitched petals it can look extraordinarily pretty.
This rose embroidery design is from the post on How to Embroider on clothesĬlosely made blanket stitches are used to either fill the rose or work on the outline. Make more than one row of satin stitch inside the design and then connect them with straight stitches smoothly and evenly. There is a method to fill big designs with satin stitch. With satin stitch you cannot fill a design which is more than 1/2 inch wide – it will look uneven. More details on how to draw and stitch the above design can be found on the tutorial to make a shopping bag Checkout the post on Satin stitches for more details You can use Satin stitches to fill designs that are less than 1/2 inch in width more than this and it can look messy. Here I have used back stitch for the rose and stem stitch for the leaves. Just the outline is made with any of the outline stitches like stem stitch, Chain stitch, back stitch. This is the simplest way of stitching a rose.