Embroidered Blooms

 

I used perle cotton Size 8 for the flowers and
two strands of embroidery floss for the leaves.

I like to keep my eye out for stamp sets that I think would be pretty for embroidery.  There are several stamps in the Corners In Bloom set that are perfect for this!  

The lavender flowers look so lifelike!

This is the same stamp set that I used in my previous blog post about no-line watercoloring.   It is amazing how different it looks in embroidery instead of ink.

I again used #8 perle cotton for the flowers and two strands of embroidery floss for the leaves.  The flowers are outlined with a lazy daisy stitch in dark purple and then filled in with lighter purple.  The leaves are stitched with longer straight stitches.  Little yellow French knots finish off the flower centers.