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Silk-Ribbon Embroidery: Five More Stitches

Woven rose stitch makes a beautiful flower and is very easy to do.

Feather stitch is used for crazy-quilt embroidery.

For leaves on each side of a flower bud, fly stitch is a good stitch to use.

Woven rose stitch makes a beautiful flower and is very easy to do.

Photo: Christine Erickson

Fly stitch fern
This stitch is ideal for filling in floral designs, the same way a florist would fill in an arrangement with ferns (if stitched in perle cotton) or sprigs of leaves (if stitched in ribbon).


To make this stitch, work from the top of the fern leaf to the bottom. Start with a straight stitch, and bring the needle up at A, and down at B. Bring the needle up at C, loop the thread or ribbon to the right, bring the needle down at D and up at E, leaving the loop under the needle and pull through.		Bring the needle down at F and up at G to start the next stitch.

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Threads Magazine, editor
Posted on Oct 28th, 2008 in embroidery, getting the look, embroidery, vintage, ribbon

Comments (8)

thestitchingqueen writes: i did them on cotton towel with dabbanam...
WOW..ITS SPLENDID.....
Posted: 9:53 am on March 8th

fragrance writes: Iam a beginner in ribbon embroidery. do we have to use special cloth material for this as it is very difficult in normal clothes. pls
Posted: 12:39 pm on December 28th

Subi writes: Hi,

Iam a beginner in ribbon embroidery. do we have to use special cloth material for this as it is very difficult in normal clothes. pls help.
Posted: 8:08 am on November 1st

sudhasrk writes: hi
i am really very much tank ful to u for showing thw basics of ribbon embroidery . iwas infact waiting to see a posting of this.to get a start . iam just asking a question about the ribbon as ,is there a special type of ribbon for this .also is that the same tye of ribbon as we see in gift wrappings and presentation articles.? hope to get a reply
Posted: 3:27 am on July 22nd

AthenaWeaves writes: This post was very helpful for showing my sister how I silk embroider. Thank you.
Posted: 12:44 pm on June 12th

stemmer writes: I just started ribbon embroidery, do I thread needle the same as with floss? I have the hardest time pulling the ribbon through the fabric. Should I use larger woven fabrics? Is there a specific type of ribbon?
Thanks
Posted: 2:45 pm on May 18th

shmear3 writes: thank you so much. You did great
Posted: 12:07 pm on April 27th

Alwaysdream writes: what a great tutorial for the beginning silk ribbon enthusiast. thank you
Posted: 6:56 pm on April 7th

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