Sara's Hand Embroidery Tutorials are an excellent source for learning your stitches. I learn best with step by step instructions in conjunction with hands on practice, Videos have their place, but do not work so well for me. I have a left/right learning disability. It takes me a spell to figure what is left and what is right. Still pictures allow me the time to figure that out. These tutorials are great. I also use my Coats and Clarks pamphlet of One Hundred Embroidery Stitches that I purchased forty years ago.
It has been well worth the 50 cent price tag (although my annual teacher's salary that year was only $3200 and living expenses exceeded my income from that source...ergo 2nd job)
Come up left of center stem.
Steeply slant the stitch by inserting needle in the right edge of the leaf considerably above the emerging thread.
The needle should emerge on the left side of the leaf perpendicular to the center stem.
Insert the needle on the right side of the center stem. The needle should emerge an eighth to a quarter inch below to the left of the center line to begin the next stitch.
Continue this pattern until the leaf is filled. When the bottom of the leaf is reached the slant lessens.
The needle is inserted at the base of the leaf to finish this stitch.
The next stitch is begun again at the base of the leaf and forms the bottom edge of the leaf.
Bring the needle to the back of the work and knot. I would not if this was a crewel piece but because this is a quilt the stitching could come loose if not knotted and the batting should nestle around the know so that it would not be noticeable.
I still pull the tail through the next few stitches because it could shadow through to the front.
Snip the tail
I have no idea why my cell phone picture shows the background fabric as pink when it is actually blue. I did not change the lighting I was seated in the same spot and the pictures were taken within moments of each other. I need a tutorial on how to use a camera.
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