Embroidery lilac ribbons tutorials (video)
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- Lilac French knots
- Video: Step by step tutorial embroidery lilac ribbons
- The second method of embroidery lilac satin ribbons
- Video: We embroider lilac ribbons
In this lesson we will tell you about howway to embroider lilacs using satin ribbons. For this purpose, you can use various embroidery methods, and the work scheme in each case is different. We will consider two methods, using which you can embroider lilacs. For each of them, we will conduct a master class with a video. The lesson is accompanied by photos corresponding to the topic, which you should definitely look at.
Lilac French knots
And now it's time to start the first master class on embroidery of flowers of lilac satin ribbons. It is necessary to purchase the following materials and tools:
Getting Started on lilac satin ribbon embroidery.
We begin our work on embroidery with lilac ribbonstransferring the pattern to the fabric. Our pattern, or more simply, the embroidery pattern, should be transferred to the fabric for ease of work on the embroidery. We put carbon paper on the fabric and place our pattern on it. We trace the pattern with a pencil, then remove everything and start embroidering. To do this, take a lilac ribbon 5 millimeters wide and learn how to make a French knot, because this is the stitch we will use to embroider the lilac.
We thread our ribbon into the needle, stick the needle infabric from the inside and bring it to the front side together with the ribbon, leaving a free end 1.5 cm long. To embroider a French knot, place the ribbon on your index finger and wrap the needle once, then bring the needle to the back of the work. Now, using the pattern, make a second similar knot. The needle is stuck into the fabric from the inside near the first knot, brought to the front side, and the second French knot is made. When embroidering the next knots, pay attention to the back of the work.
Care must be taken not toget the needle into the previously embroidered ribbons. For better assimilation of the material, you should refer to the video lesson that we attach. Any lilac consists of both opened flowers and buds that have not yet opened. Therefore, we need to learn how to embroider such lilac buds. The work pattern remains unchanged, and the buds must fit into it. To make a lilac bud, we bring the needle to the front of the work, place the ribbon on the base fabric, step back a little, and again insert the needle directly into the ribbon. The needle is brought out to the wrong side, and a small bud is formed on the front side. The smaller the piece of ribbon that you step back, the smaller your bud will be. Make several such buds next to each other.
The smallest bud can be embroidered, nosticking a needle into the tape. To do this, simply bring the tape to the front of the work, and, having retreated one millimeter, go back to the back. We will get a very small unopened lilac bud. When working on embroidery, be sure to watch the back of the work, on which everything should be smooth and orderly. When embroidering a lilac branch, you can arbitrarily vary the flowers and unopened buds, as well as make French knots of different sizes. This is achieved by tightening the knots differently. If you tighten it more tightly, the flower will be small. If you do not do it very tightly, the flower will be large. This is what happens in nature. On a lilac branch there are flowers of different sizes and unopened buds.
Using all these embroidery techniques, we will continue towe work on a lilac branch, following our pattern and not going beyond the boundaries of the scheme. But when the lilac ribbon embroidery is finished, we will embroider several green leaves. For this we will need a green satin ribbon, 10 mm wide. Cut off a piece 5 centimeters long and fold it into a loop, placing one end on the other and securing them together with a green floss thread. We will need three leaves for one lilac branch. They need to be placed in the place where there are depressions on the embroidered branch. This is where we should sew our leaves. Sew the leaves, hiding their base behind the flowers, and securing the top with a thread.
For the embroidery of the stem we use green threadsfloss, and embroider it with a simple satin stitch. In order for the stem to be thicker, take the threads in several folds. The more folds you make, the more beautiful your stem will be. Such an embroidered lilac branch is very good to place in a special beautiful frame. Embroidered on gabardine fabric, such a lilac will look very good in a frame on the wall of your room.
Video: Step by step tutorial embroidery lilac ribbons
The second method of embroidery lilac satin ribbons
This lesson contains another master class on embroidery lilac satin ribbons. Prepare the following materials and tools:
The second method of embroidery lilac ribbons radicallyIt differs from the first one, but the circuit or sketch on the fabric needed here. The difference is that some lilac flowers are produced separately and then sewn to the twig and some embroider on the canvas. So it is possible to achieve the maximum similarity with real lilac flowers.
For one branch we need to do aboutone hundred individual flowers, each of which will require a piece of ribbon 7 cm long. Be sure to treat each piece with a flame from a lighter, otherwise the lilac will look sloppy and disheveled. To make one lilac flower, you need to gather a piece of ribbon with a basting stitch and pull it together with a thread. Start basting along the scorched vertical edge and continue, turning the seam 90 degrees. Before starting basting, bend the ribbon in three places, as if dividing it into four parts. Make the first fold by bending the piece in half, and then in half again. You will get three folds that will divide the piece into four parts.
Continuing to work, we baste one edge tofold lines. Reaching each fold line, we go up along it and down. When tightening the thread, these transverse seams will form separate petals. We finish basting along the second vertical flame-scorched edge. After this, the thread needs to be tightened, as a result of which you will see a lilac flower that absolutely repeats the flower in nature. We must secure the thread and sew both free edges together. Our flower is ready. As we have already noted, about a hundred of such flowers will be needed.
And now we draw a sketch on the canvas, which we alreadyfastened in the hoop, and begin to embroider. First, we make the upper unopened buds using a very small French knot. We wrap the ribbon around the needle once, and insert it into the fabric at a distance of two millimeters from the puncture, and we get a bud on a stem. The distance between the punctures forms the stem of the bud. We embroider several such buds on the top of the branch, and at the same time we begin to embroider green branches with iris, on which the buds and flowers are attached.
Continuing our work, we move down the branch,and begin to embroider half-opened flowers using regular ribbon stitches. The embroidery is done in parallel with green iris, ribbon for embroidering flowers, lilac thread for sewing on individual flowers. All these threads and ribbon are on the back side throughout the embroidery. Sew the finished flowers with yellow thread in the center, forming the middle of the flower. Finished flowers can be sewn on when the work is done 3-4 cm from the top of the branch. In order for your branch to be as similar to the real thing as possible, you need to keep a photo of the lilac in front of your eyes. This will make your work easier and refresh your memory.
Remember that the finished flowers need to besew in the center, leaving the petals free, which will create the effect of authenticity of the lilac. But the gaps that form between the flowers, fill with regular ribbon stitches. To give visual volume to our lilac branch, vary the color of the finished flowers from light lilac to darker. Make an additional second tier of flowers in some places, which will also add volume to your work.
When the work on embroidering flowers is finished, you need toadd a branch to them, which can be embroidered either from woolen threads or from a green satin ribbon. On both sides of the green branch, embroider two leaves using a green satin ribbon. The ribbon should be wide enough, about 3 centimeters. The leaves are made with a regular ribbon stitch. Our work has come to an end and the embroidery pattern has been followed. Now you can decorate the embroidered lilac as your imagination and fantasy tell you.
Video: We embroider lilac ribbons
