Needlepoint Stitch Guide for Cutting Garden
The following stitches are used on the above model:
Top Left Blue Flower—Mosaic Checker:
Blue Flower Center—French Knots in lilac and blue
Upper Pale Pink Partial Petals—Upright Cross stitch:
Upper Right Orange Partial Flower—Woven stitch:
Mid Blue Small Flowers—Buttonhole stitch:
The Buttonhole stitch is closely related to the Blanket stitch.
It is a common embroidery stitch and is not used so much in needlepoint. The best explanation we could source for how to do the Buttonhole stitch in needlepoint is in Piecework Magazine.
Yellow Curved Lines on Lilac Flower—Chain stitch worked straight onto the canvas.
The chain stitch can be a straight line, or curved. Try to keep your stitch lengths even.
Middle Blue Flower—Bargello Line Pattern:
Middle Blue Flower Center (Orange)—Diagonal Mosaic:
Pale Pink Leaves Bottom Flower—Byzantine #2:
Dusky Pink Bottom Left Flower—Woven Trellis stitch:
Bottom Right Orange Flower—Skip Tent stitch:
Dark Green Leaves—Diagonal Satin stitches of random lengths.
Green Leaves over Orange Flower (Bottom Right)—Lazy Daisy with long center stitch.
Watch this video from Needlepoint Now on how to do a Lazy Daisy stitch in needlepoint.
Grey surface embroidery—French Knots and Long stitches.
All the other areas are tent stitches.
You can find this Cutting Garden needlepoint kit here.
