Embroidered Hand

Make a beautiful embroidery piece to bring color to your walls. This is a great project for beginners to learn embroidery. It's super simple and easy.

You will need the following for this project:

• Embroidery Hoop (Plastic or wooden)
• Pencil or washable marker
• Scissors
• Eraser
• Embroidery Needle
• Embroidery Floss Multiple Colors (Six Strand)
• Fabric (Yellow or beige makes the colors stand out best)

Once you have your supplies, you have to sketch out your hand and flowers.

TIPS:

• Use a SHARP pencil to sketch.. Trust me, you do not want to use a dull one. I learned that the hard way.
• Pull the fabric tight when you do this. If you don't, it won't come out as clean.
• Try to erase any mess up pencil lines.

Next, you have to thread your needle with your first color, black six strand embroidery floss. Then, you have to set up your fabric on the embroidery hoop.

To embroider your hand, use your black thread and needle and stitch along the pencil lines for the hand. Start from the back of the piece and use backstitch for you stitch. If you don't know how to do backstitch (or any other stitches you have to use for this project), use this link: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/847661961114915349/

Next, you need to thread your needle with any shade of six strand green floss. You'll use two different stitches for the fern.

1. Stem- Backstitch
2. Leaves- Lazy Daisy

If your unsure of how to do these stitches, visit this link: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/847661961114915349/...

Now, you have to do the other two stems of the flowers. Use all six strands of your floss. For this, again, you need to use the backstitch technique. Hopefully, you should be pretty familiar with this stitch by now.

For this next step, I'm using a peachy color for the flowers. You can thread your needle with thread of your choice. BUT, pull your 6 strand thread into 3 strands. This will make it much easier to embroider this part of the piece. The stitch you will use for the flower is backstitch, again. Try not to make your stitches big, make them tighter together.

Now, for the somewhat tricky part. Gather three different shades of purple. Thread your needle with the lightest of the three and work up with darker purples. You don't have to pull your strand into 3 this time. Leave your floss the way it is. Follow the picture as you do this. You will be using a short and long stitch. If you need help with this stitch, visit this website: https://cutesycrafts.com/2018/06/how-to-long-and-short-stitch.html

Now, flip your hoop over and cut all the extra fabric off... and... YOUR DONE!!! I hope this was fun and brings some brightness to your space!