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in this video i'm going to show you how
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to make the embroidered leaves on this
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design the solid leaves are the ones
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we're talking about from this design
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they're actually really easy to make and
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so you don't need any fancy equipment
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this channel is dedicated to crafting on
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so all you really need is your fabric
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and your embroidery thread
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i'm christine of christine's crafts
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the first thing i'm going to show you is
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the best way to get a great effect with
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all your embroidery and that's to use an
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and if you haven't got one don't worry
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in this video i won't be using one but
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it is recommended to get beautiful
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stitches that lie perfectly flat so if
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you just need to twist the screw at the
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and pop the inner circle out
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place your fabric over the inner circle
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and then push the outer circle over
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and that'll just hold your fabric fasten
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and then before you get it too tight i
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recommend pulling the fabric
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so that it pulls tight you're aiming for
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a nice tight effect a bit like a drum
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so that it just lies nice and flat for
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and then you can carry on and do all
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your stitches and whatever you want to
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do and then take it out at the end but
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as i say don't worry if you haven't got
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so you need to take wherever you want to
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put your leaves now i've got a flower
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here and if you want to know how to make
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you can simply click on the card at the
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top or look in the description below
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just draw your leaves wherever you want
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them to go now i'm using a pencil so
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hopefully you can see
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but draw the leaf shape and draw a spine
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up the middle you're going to use that
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line up the middle to to work from so it
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is important and draw as many leaves as
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and once you're happy with it get your
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thread thread it up on your needle
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and come up through your fabric probably
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about quarter of an inch three eighths
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of an inch from the tip of the leaf
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making sure you've got a knot on the
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and then take it back in right at the
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and that's it you've started to form the
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now bring your needle back up just to
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one side of where you brought it up
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and whichever side you bring it up
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you are then going to place the needle
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back in on the opposite side of that
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first stitch at the other end
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working your way down that pencil line
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so you'll now have a stitch that
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overlaps the other one
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now you're going to come up on the
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opposite side of that first stitch
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nice and close but still on the side of
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and then take your needle back down
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on the other side of that first stitch
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again sticking to the pencil line you
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that's the basis of what we're going to
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do but we're going to work our way down
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so now you're going to go back to the
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first side that you worked from
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and you're going to go
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slightly further down the spine
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so pop out slightly further down
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underneath where you did before
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and then remember you're crossing
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so then we're going to do the same again
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we're working our way down the spine
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we're going back to the other side
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pop the needle through you can see i'm
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taking my time and i'm taking care to
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make sure the stitches are nice and
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and that will happen to you sometimes
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just loosen it off again and then be
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all the time if you're not on a hoop
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make sure you're not pulling your
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and there we go we've crossed over again
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so make sure you're constantly working
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down your pencil line so you get exactly
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the shape of leaf that you want
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and you should see it's starting to form
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keep working down that spine
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and keep alternating sides and making
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sure you always cross
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while you're above the fabric
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now spread the film up a little bit here
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keep working slowly keep working
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steadily but i just wanted to show you
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the whole process so you can see i'm
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just working doing exactly the same
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and you can see that leaf shape
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the closer you keep your stitches the
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more solid the effect if you spread your
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stitches out a bit you'll be able to see
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some fabric between them and they'll
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look like veins on the leaf
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what effect you want is up to you but in
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this tutorial i'm showing you doing them
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just stop when you're ready because
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you've got a leaf shape
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but if like me you're going up to
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something you're going up to a flower
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until you're right up to that flower
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and i recommend that you actually go so
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that you go slightly underneath it so
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there's no fabric showing at all between
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the flower and the leaf
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will just mean that you get a really
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once you've finished get your thread
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take your thread through a couple of
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your stitches and take your needle
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through the loop that you formed
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and just repeat that just to be sure and
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then it's all nice and secure
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and then you cut your thread off
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and you're finished with your leaf
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so you can use these for lots of
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projects you can make beautiful pictures
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and pieces of tapestry work or how about
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using them for clothing
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you'll see here that what i've done is
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put them on the pocket of a shirt you
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can put them on jeans you can embroider
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so thank you for watching i hope you've
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enjoyed the video please give me a
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thumbs up and subscribe if you'd like to
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see more and remember this is one in a
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series of videos so please check them
