MOTIVATIONAL HOOP
ADD A LITTLE ENCOURAGEMENT TO EVERY DAY WITH THIS MOTIVATIONAL HOOP – PERFECT FOR EXPERIMENTING WITH COLOUR!
Niamh Wimperis encourages you to ‘Make Today Amazing’ with this design
MATERIALS
Cotton fabric: 35x35cm, white Stranded cotton: 1 skein each of black, jade green, mint green, pistachio green, lilac, pink, light pink, yellow and light yellow Embroidery hoop: 18cm diameter Basic embroidery kit
STITCHES USED
Backstitch, Pistil Stitch, Satin Stitch, Split Stitch, Straight Stitch,
Woven Wheel
NOTES
Find the template on p73.
01 Transfer the design from the template onto your fabric using your preferred method, with the design positioned centrally. Mount the fabric into a hoop, ensuring the fabric is taut like the surface of a drum.
02 Begin by working all your Woven Wheels in three strands of lilac. Start with this stitch because it requires you to slide the needle around, and if there are any other stitches nearby they might get snagged.
You can identify the Woven Wheels on the template by the five straight spokes.
03 Using three strands, work Satin Stitch for the flowers in pink, light pink, yellow and light yellow, and for the small rounded leaves on the sprigs in mint green and jade green. Use the main image on the previous page as a guide for colour placement.
04 Next, stitch the remaining leaves using Satin Stitch in three strands of pistachio green, mint green and jade green, this time angling your stitches so that they meet at the bottom centre of each leaf. Following the leaf shape, start with a single stitch from the top of the leaf to the bottom, then fill in one side and then the other. Add three Straight Stitches in a contrasting shade of green to the base of the individual leaves. Add the stems of the flowers and leaves using Split Stitch in two strands of a matching shade of green. Again, use the main image on the previous page as a guide for colour placement if needed.
05 For the stamen of the two large pink flowers, work Pistil Stitch in three strands of yellow. Bring the needle up in the centre where the two colours meet and insert the needle back down where you would like the knot to form on the fabric.
06 Next, work the outline of the banner in Split Stitch using two strands of black. Finally, work the lettering in Backstitch using two strands of black.