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Lazy daisy stitch, combined with couched lines and French knots, is great for creating simple flowers. Embroider ready-made napkins or make your own. The heavier weight fabric used for these napkins can support bold embroidery using all six strands of thread, but if you are stitching onto a finer linen use two or three strands and make the flowers slightly smaller.
Pink Flowers
Cut a 40cm square of fabric for each napkin required. To position the first large flower, measure 5cm in from each edge near the corner of the napkin and mark with a pin. Insert a pin 4cm away from the first and 4cm from the edge of the fabric to mark the centre of the other two flowers.
Using six strands of deep pink, secure the cotton thread by stitching through the weave on the wrong side so that it doesn’t show on the front. You can use the same technique to secure the thread between each flower rather than taking long strands across the back of the fabric.
Bring the needle through near the pin then take the marker out. Work 13 petals 10mm - 15mm long in lazy daisy stitch, leaving a 6mm circle in the middle. Secure the thread on the reverse. Using the same deep pink stranded cotton stitch the smaller flowers at the pinned markers. Work 11
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