Leaf Embroidery - Day 19 -Pistil stitch Leaf

Welcome back to Day 19 of our Leaf Embroidery series! 🌿

Today, we're diving into a stitch that's as delicate as it is beautiful — the Pistil Stitch. Often used to add texture and elegance in floral embroidery, this versatile stitch is perfect for crafting charming, organic-looking leaves. Whether you're new to embroidery or a seasoned stitcher, learning how to shape leaves with pistil stitches adds a lovely flair to your designs. So, grab your hoop and thread, and let’s bring these leafy details to life!

Video Tutorial below

That concludes our exploration of the Pistil Stitch Leaf. With its clean lines and subtle texture, this stitch adds a refined touch to any botanical embroidery composition. As with any technique, consistency in stitch length and tension plays a key role in achieving a polished result.

Feel free to experiment with different thread types and spacing to create variations in texture and style. Soon, we’ll move on to another exciting stitch, continuing our journey through the many ways to bring leaves to life with needle and thread.

Happy stitching, and see you on Day 20!

Pistil stitch flower embroidery design

 Hi all 

Hope all are doing well and good.  Today I am happy to share with you a simple embroidery design for beginners.  It features pistil stitch flowers and twisted chain stitch.  The video below shows how to do the stitches.

Leaves are done in two ways and the circle line is embroidered using twisted chain stitch.  

Video Tutorial 👇👇

Pattern for the design

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Anchor Threads used

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Flowers - 335 & 302

Leaves & lines - 239

French knots in flower centre - 355

Pistil stitch in between leaves - 302

Stitches used

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Flowers - Pistil stitch - 3 strands

Leaves - Fishbone & Fancy leaf(watch video) - 6 strands

Stem - Back stitch - 6 strands

Circle - Twisted Chain stitch - 6 strands

Centre of flowers - French knots - 6 strands - 1 wrap

Hope you all like this design.  See you soon with another design.  Till then, have a nice time with your needle and thread.

Pistil stitch tutorial

Hi all

 

Yesterday I have an embroidery design using pistil stitch.  So today I am here with the tutorial of doing the pistil stitch. and a practice sample out of it.  

Practice flower design

A sample piece of pistil stitch.  Mark points like the one given in pic - 1, and start stitching from the centre.  Finish all the long stitches and then proceed with the shorter one so that every stitches will be equally placed.  Then add a french knot or a bead in the centre.

Hope all of you will try your hands in pistil stitch.  Do give your comments below. 

You can view my other embroidery works here.

Embroidery Design - Pistil Stitch/Long French knot Stitch

Hi all 

Hope all are doing well.  I have worked on a simple design using pistil stitch.  It is also known as Long French knot stitch.  If you are familiar in working the french knots then it is an easy job for you.  

Pistil Stitch Tutorial

Have a look at the design.

Pattern for the design

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Stitches Used:

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Flowers and Leaves - Pistil stitch

Centre of the leaves - French knot

Stem - Stem stitch

Between leaves - Straight stitch

Threads Used - Anchor Embroidery threads

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Flowers                 - 925 (6 strands)

Long pistil             - 2 wraps

Short pistil             - 1 wrap

Centre of flowers    - 13 (6 strands - 2 wraps)

Stem                     - 246 (3 strands)

Leaves                    - 243 (4 strands)

straight stitch            - 243(4 strands)

You can view my other free embroidery designs here.

Hope all of you like this design.  Do give a try and let me know in the comments section.  I will be happy if you send a picture of your worked design to shamiimmanuel@gmail.com.

Pistil stitch flower and MCP update

Hello all

It's been more than a month I have posted my crafty things here.  Though so many things are being done on the craft side I was not able to blog about it.  I am doing slow and steady progress in my bigger projects.  

In between the bigger projects I used to try some samples of the embroidery stitches.  Now I am doing different flowers with different stitches.  This year I have done embroidery work on kurtis with french knots and ring knots.  As a continuation to these knot stitches this time I have tried Long french knots or pistil stitch.  It came out perfect. 

 Initially I have tried with all the six strands of thread.  But I didn't like the appearence of it.  Then I have tried with 4 strands, two times wound the thread around the needle and it was perfect for me.  Have a look at the sample.

A pearl bead has been added at the centre.

Stitches used:

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Flower - Pistil stitch or Long french knots

Leaf - Leaf stitch (used two colors for leaf)

sprays - Straight stitches with french knots at the tip

Vein of the leaf - stem stitch

Thread Numbers ( Anchor embroidery thread)

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Flower - 74 (4 strands, wound two times around needle)

Leaf and stem - 237, 239(3 strands)

French knots - (4 strands, wound one time around needle)

For the leaf I have done leaf stitch leaving little spaces in between and then added straight stitches in the gap with the second color of green and it looks good than stitching in a single color.

Update on Harmony Cross stitch project

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I am happy that I have completed one more page on mega cross stitch project and I have started the section three of the design.

After

Before

In my next post I will be showing one of my stitch sampler of the family of straight stitches and a design made out of it.  So do watch my space.  Till then, have a happy time with needle n thread.

TAST 2012, Week 48 - Buttonhole Eyelet flower

This is the small sample I have made for this weeks challenge.  I didn't succeed in making the exact buttonhole eyelet flower.  But I have tried it.  May be some day I will make a perfect buttonhole eyelet flower.  The other flowers are stitched using pistil stitch, the one on the top left.  For the remaining flowers I have used buttonhole stitch for the petals.  I have learned it from here.

 

Pistil stitch Sampler, TAST 2012 - Week 37

This is my sample for pistil stitch.   The design pattern is form www.sadalas.blogspot.com and I have taken a small portion of it. 

 

This is another sampler Which I have used pistil stitch for the top three leaves.  I have written a post on this here.

Happy embroidering.

Shami Immanuel.

Pistil stitch

This is a sampler which I have tried for practicing pistil stitch.  The leaves in the middle stem is stitched using pistil stitch. 

Regarding the flower I have seen the same in Indus ladies.  And I tried that.  It has been done using alternate fly stitch and straight stitch.  But today I  came to know that this flower technique has been done by Leela of www.leelashobbies.blogspot.com.  Thanks to her.

Happy embroidering.

Shami Immanuel.