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in this video i'm going to show you how
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to make your own stems with leaves made
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out of a little chain as you do your
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hand embroidery it's part of this
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project and at the end you're still on
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you'll be able to see the links to all
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the other elements of this little
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so i'm christine of christinecrust.com
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and this channel is all about crafting
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so get whatever you're wanting to do
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your embroidery on and you can see here
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i'm going to take it out from this small
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and bring your thread up really close to
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i've put a knot on the end of my thread
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you could do some little stitches on the
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back it's up to you how you finish off
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and just do a little stitch
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and that's the start of your stem
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and now bring your needle back up
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very close to where you just went in
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but just to one side and maybe slightly
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back it's up to you how you want it to
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end up and in fact there are lots of
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different ways you can embroider your
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stem this is just one way
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then when you've brought your needle up
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you're going to go forwards with another
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stitch when you bring it back up this
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time you're going to come up again next
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a little bit further back
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it just means you get a nice stem that's
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not too thin and there are no gaps
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because you've got that slight overlap
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and then you just repeat that with
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whatever length stitch you like
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and for as long as you want to get the
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stem length that you want
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i'm not going to go too far
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because i don't need a great big long
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but you can see how easy it is
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and how you can get into a real rhythm
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just bring my needle up
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you'll see sometimes it takes me a
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little while to make sure i've got it in
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the right place and that i'm happy with
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so i'm happy with that stem
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so once you're ready to put a leaf on
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just bring your needle up
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really close to the end but obviously
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not in exactly the same place or you'll
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lose your stitch that you just made
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and then you're going to take your
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thread around to form a loop
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above your stem so you can see it there
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and it's really good idea to just hang
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on to it with the thumb of the other
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and then take your needle back in very
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close to where it came out
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and then bring it up again at the end of
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where you want your stitch to be
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and you'll see we've nicely formed that
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but there's nothing to hold it down at
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it can just go where it likes so just
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take your needle down again
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pretty much the same place you came up
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but the other side of the loop so you're
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pinning it down you can see it's just a
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and that's it you formed a leaf using a
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so now go back down your stem to where
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you would like another leaf
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and come up very close to the stem you
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don't want to see a gap
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and then i'll just go through that again
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you're going to bring your thread around
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take your needle down
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very close to where you came up
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and then go the length that you want
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and pop back up inside the loop
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pull your thread so your loop forms a
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and then put the needle back in
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very close but over the loop
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just to hold it in place
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and then it's up to you how many leaves
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you would like and where you would like
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so i've included this section so you can
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see me building mine up but i have
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spread the film up so you don't get
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bored but you can see that whole stem
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and you could if you're doing a
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different style do your stitches
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and get a slightly different effect
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also you can use different
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which will also give you a different
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once you're happy with it
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all you need to do is turn it over
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and finish your thread off or bring your
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thread up somewhere else to do another
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so all i'm going to do is go up
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little knots formed on my thread not to
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worry it's on the back
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so i'm then just going to go through
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not coming onto the front and then take
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my needle through the loop just forms a
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and then it won't come undone later on
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so i promised you at the beginning of
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that i would show you about the other
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elements that i've been building up on
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my channel of doing your hand embroidery
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so once you've got mastered how to do
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your stems and leaves you can do the
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so you can link to a video that shows
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you how to do the flowers
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and you can also go to a video that
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shows you how to do the leaves
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and another one that shows you the
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french knots so i hope you've enjoyed
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this video please give me a thumbs up
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