Necessary Supplies

30/140 cm fabric for the outside of the cushion        

30 cm stof for the embroidery, plain or with a small print or tone on tone 

A hardened cloth 

Embroidery

Bring the attached draft of the piece of fabric that you chose for the embroidery, the cloth should be large enough. Now cut some more off. See figure 1

Glue a square of the cloth at the back

Keep a space between the circle for the thread

First embroider the flowers

Use the Mokuba ribbon 1531, with a ribbon embroidery stitch (stitch ribbon), a row of petals, begin at the edge of the small circle in the center and work toward the edge of the large circle of the flower. Give some volume to your pitch

With the 1540-3.5 ribbon you embroider on top of the previous a second row with petals to give it more volume, dont flatten the previous row.

Embroider the center of the flower with 3 strands DMC Mouline: play with 3 different colors - 1 light + 1 dark, take dark 1 and 2 or 3 lighter or 3 dark or 1 light + 2 dark, 3-wire double folded. Create a French knot by combining the above wires

For the pistils use a wire of this Mouline - dark if the leafs are light or vice versa, and do small straight stabbings at the top of the leaf

Steel: Use 3 wires Mouline- 2 brown and 1 black, folded, use the stem stitch

Embroider the leaves with chenille leafs : A = total and B = half leaves, use the straight stitch

Tip: for the leaves A you can combine 2 Chenille threads in the same colorrange, 1 light and 1 dark, so you get a shadow effect on the leaf

With 2 threads Mouliné you embroider on top of the leafs, make use of the thorn stitch: Complete stitches for the leafs A and half stitches for the leafs B

Tip: when you want the stitches to be more visible use a satin DMC wire

Sailing: with 3 threads Mouliné, light, middle and dark in the same colorrange, use the feather stitch first with the light color. Continue with middle, start with 1cm lower then the previous. In the end use the dark color, start with 1 cm lower then the previous again. 

Tip: to create a small "bush" effect to the background of the flowers, the feather stitches don't need to be equal. See drawing 2

Sailing: use the Perlé cotton to make a stitch in the middle of the open space

Use a straight tack in a zigzag around the lace. Confirm each curve with a pink pearl sewn with a double strand Mouline

Tip: When you want to make the pearl look like berry, you must make the lazy daisy stitch large enough so you can see both sides of the pearl.

Make another round with the Perlé, thicken the tack so i gets more volume and make it look like a straight stitch.

Add the 3 layers and quilt, except for the straight tack part

Cut around but leave some for the backstitch

Cut another circle for the back out of the embroidery and add it, quilt

Putting the cushion together:

Cut a strip of 40x140 cm from the print fabric, let the 2 long sides come together to get the size of the circles have. Sew each circle to the edges meet

Leave an opening of 10cm in the second circle, fill it with cottonwools and close the gap

Embroidery Lace (20 cm) with edging

Embroidery and quilting within the lines

curved lines - straight tacking

feuille - leafs

tige – stem

fleur – flower

coeur – center of the flower

fougère - varen