The stem stitch rose is pretty simple in concept. The most complicated part about it is the center knot that’s often used to start the rose. But I’ll let you in on a little secret below, after we go through the standard steps for the starting knot, in case you want to skip the knot altogether. You can make any size roses with this technique. We’ll discuss that below, too. Materials Used ...
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Stem Stitch is my favorite hand embroidery stitch, because it is so versatile and so attractive. The poor stem stitch doesn’t get the attention it is due, in my opinion – most folks tend to stitch lines today using backstitch, running stitch, and chain stitch, more than they do with stem stitch. But stem stitch makes a beautiful line stitch!
The templates are organized by stitch family, so each group of decorative lines – all of which make for great crazy quilting seams or sampler-developing on larger stitch samplers – centers around one basic stitch. For example, in the photo above, that group of templates on that page all belong to the buttonhole stitch family.
The fishbone stitch and the raised fishbone stitch will come to your rescue. They both create a satin-stitch-like filling, but because the stitches overlap in the center of the leaf, you get a nice, subtle spine right down the middle of the stitch.
Take your first stitch forward along your design line, as shown above. For this tutorial, I’m working a stem stitch line, but the principle holds true for any line stitch when working with an even number of strands of floss in the needle.