Embroidery is the art of embellishing or adorning by means of a needle and thread. Creating beautiful pieces of embroidered art is an investment not only in costly supplies, but time and energy as well.
Generally most plain fabrics, such as linen, cottons, wools and wide range of coloured furnishing fabrics, are suitable for free style embroidery. Just as an experiment I used White foam paper instead of fabric in this project of Little Apple Tree. It really good for embroidery works and inexpensive. Craft foam Sheet is a versatile and somewhat unusual craft supply whose many uses often go unexplored.
Work In Progress:
Needles come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. They may be sharp or blunt and with a large eye or a small eye. Embroidery needles have longer eye, which make it a lot easier to thread up to six strands of floss through at once and these needles glide through the fabric a whole lot easier.
The below picture shows opposite side of foam sheet.
In this Little Apple tree my most-used stitch is Back Stich, which is a great outline and filler stitch. It is very plain in character but adds a lovely contrast when used with more frilly or showy stiches.
For the tree trunk I used double lined running stitch. Normally Running stitch is use as either a outline or a filling stitch.
I used pale green, Dark brown , Brown and Red Embroidery floss in this project.
Details :
The Little Apple tree top is outlined (double outline) using Running stitch with 2 strands of pale green Embroidery floss.
Tree trunk is outlined (single outline) using back stitch with 6 strands of Dark brown Embroidery floss.
Apples are outlined and filled using backstitch. I used 6 strands of red Embroidery floss.
Apple steams are done using straight stich with 2 strands of brown Embroidery floss. Straight stitch is simply a single stitch.
