How to embroider a poppy flower

Needlebook progress and a quick twig tutorial, #hand_embroidery, #wildflowers_embroidery, #wild_flowers_embroidery

I almost feel like I've been suckered into embroidering these motifs from Elisabetta's wheat field alphabet. They're just too addictive to put down. My Project Wall is feeling rather neglected (I'll tell you about my Project Wall some day...) and my eggs are stagnating. I'm embroidering some egg

I'm super excited to share this free hand embroidery design with you! Dancing poppies is one of my most favorite patterns that I developed myself. It was supposed to be matching with the Yellow poppies wreath, but somehow in the middle of stitching, it just got its own character and mood. It is much more delicate and tender and fits perfectly for the spring stitching season! As it often happens to me, I got fascinated with beautiful photographs of pink oriental poppies and my inspiration…

This is the pattern I created, along with some basic instructions, to make the Remembrance Poppy Pin. If you stitch a poppy, please send me a link/photo. I would love to see what you do, especially variations. Feel free to adjust the pattern, threads, etc. Most importantly, have fun! Make sure you read through all of the instructions before stitching! The poppy is a very simple (and fast) thread painting project. These instructions assume that you are familiar with this technique. There are…

This is the pattern I created, along with some basic instructions, to make the Remembrance Poppy Pin. If you stitch a poppy, please send me a link/photo. I would love to see what you do, especially variations. Feel free to adjust the pattern, threads, etc. Most importantly, have fun! Make sure you read through all of the instructions before stitching! The poppy is a very simple (and fast) thread painting project. These instructions assume that you are familiar with this technique. There are…

Red Poppy. How to embroider a poppy.. Pomplamoose · Oh, Pretty Woman

I'm super excited to share this free hand embroidery design with you! Dancing poppies is one of my most favorite patterns that I developed myself. It was supposed to be matching with the Yellow poppies wreath, but somehow in the middle of stitching, it just got its own character and mood. It is much more delicate and tender and fits perfectly for the spring stitching season! As it often happens to me, I got fascinated with beautiful photographs of pink oriental poppies and my inspiration…

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Embroidery has been around forever — the earliest surviving pieces of this craft are Scythian, dated to between the 5th and 3rd centuries BCE. Virtually every culture has some form of it in their textile art history.