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Long and Short Stitch Flower tutorial

August 19, 2013 by Connie Barwick Leave a Comment

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If you are just starting out with embroidery or you want to move beyond basic stitches, then this tutorial from Let’s learn embroidery blog will be quite helpful for you. It deals with long and short stitch and shows you how to create a simple flower using this stitch. Using two colors for contrast and then filling the center with French Knots, you will create this simple design in no time. Long and short stitch is a handy fill stitch to know. It is great for filling in all sorts of objects and backgrounds. So head on over to Let’s learn embroidery and check it out.

Still looking for more patterns? Check these flower embroidery patterns out on Etsy  and these designs over on the DMC blog. 

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