Thread Painting - Holly Blue Butterfly Embroidery

I’m thread painting my holly blue butterfly with long and short stitches and single strands of thread. The pattern is from my new book, Floral Spring Embroidery Patterns. You can see the holly blue butterfly on the front cover of the book.
I used three shades of blue to thread paint the top wings. I start at the edges of the wings with the palest blue and work in towards the butterfly’s body with deeper blues.
Floral Spring Embroidery Patterns is the third book in my new embroidery patterns series.
Book 1 - Floral Garden Embroidery Patterns.
Book 2 - Christmas & Winter Embroidery Patterns.
Book 3 - Floral Spring Embroidery Patterns.
Floral Spring Embroidery Patterns is available from Amazon.
Go to: De-annBlack.com/FloralSpring
Floral Spring has over 50 floral and spring theme embroidery patterns. The patterns include: a floral spring cottage, forget-me-nots, bluebells, daffodils, tulips, crocus, primroses, pansies, hyacinth, grape hyacinth, anemone, viola, violets, lilac, lavender, daisies, lily of the valley, apple blossom, birds - goldfinch, blue tit bird and robins, a diva moth, bee, butterflies - holly blue, brimstone and orange tip butterfly. And a Stitch Sampler design and lettering patterns for the words Forget-Me-Not and Spring.
Most of the patterns use stranded cotton embroidery thread (floss), but crewelwork patterns (wool embroidery) are included - a crewelwork rabbit, crewel tulip and crewel clematis flower. The crewel wool patterns can also be stitched with cotton embroidery thread if preferred.
The book contains full-size templates on single-sided pages so you can trace the patterns on to fabric ready for embroidering. The pattern instructions are at the back of the book.
The patterns are ideal for hand stitching and hoop embroidery. Many of the patterns fit into standard size 5 inch, 6 inch and 10 inch hoops.
The stitches and thread colours are suggestions. You can of course use your own favourite stitches and threads to sew the patterns if you prefer.
I design all my own patterns from my original artwork.
Book website:
The book’s website shows detailed colour photographs of some of the embroidery designs. It includes videos showing how De-ann traces her patterns on to fabric, and her methods for stitching some of the designs - with links to her RUclips channel where you can see more of her embroidery stitching methods including: satin stitch, thread painting (long & short stitch), back stitch, whipped running stitch, whipped back stitch, stem stitch, outline stitch, French knots, Colonial knots, closed fly stitch, trailing stitch, couching, split stitch, seed stitch, chain stitch, ribbed spider web stitch, whitework, goldwork and crewelwork embroidery. A link to the book’s website is at the back of the book.
See De-ann’s latest embroidery, sewing, knitting and craft romance books on Amazon:
Knitting Cottage: Scottish Highland romance (Sewing, Crafts & Quilting series)
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Scottish Highlands Christmas Wedding: Embroidery, Knitting, Dressmaking & Textile Art.
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Embroidery Cottage (Quilting Bee & Tea Shop series)
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My books (fiction, embroidery and colouring books) are on Amazon.
Amazon Author Page - amzn.to/2fiTlzb
Website - www.De-annBlac...
My latest sewing theme romance books include: The Sewing Shop, The Sewing Bee, The Quilting Bee and The Dressmaker’s Cottage.
My fabric and wallpaper designs are on Spoonflower.
Spoonflower Designer Page - www.spoonflowe...
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