When I look at this project now, I feel like these flowers were always made for satin stitch.
The simple shapes and restricted colour pallet make this a good design to dip your toe into the satin stitch pond.
But that wasn't where we started out.
Originally, I had thought to use seed stitch for this design.
Perhaps if the flowers had been bigger this may have worked, but as they were, seed stitch was not nearly strong enough to carry the design.
Another issue that was settled mid-project was which thread to use for the flowers.
The leaves were always planned to be completed with 2 strands of floss, but originally, I thought to stitch the flowers with Perle #8 thread.
While I liked how the perle thread looked, I was happier with the coverage of the finer stranded floss.
Other than those mid-project changes, this was reasonably straightforward to complete.
The design was traced onto sticky water dissolving stabiliser, which helped stop the design area from stretching while I was stitching.
The final threads were DMC stranded floss:
Green - 524 and 3053
Pink - 223 and 224
Ecru.
In the video, you can see how the shapes were outlined in stem stitch to help give a crisp edge to the stitching area. This is not essential but is a common practice when working with satin stitch.
Watch how this project came together on YouTube.
See our Satin Stitch video tutorial.
Look at our Satin Stitch photo tutorial on the web site.
