Embroidery Free Lessons - First Day

First Day

Doing embroidery on a table cloth. As it is a big table cover, I am going to do many designs on this cloth. First a bird's design.

   A Bird

  

Stitches used

Back stitch for the outline (red color thread)

Long and Short stitch (light orange and purple color thread)

Satin stitch (black - eye, red - leg, beak)

ButtonHole stitch (Border of the feather)

Procedure

• Copy the design on the cloth.
• Stitch the outline using back stitch.
• Using the red thread, do buttonhole stitch for feather borders.
• Use satin stitch to fill beak, eye and claws.
• Long and short stitch for the purple and orange threads. 
• Finished.