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.

Watch this video on how to do a French knot in needlepoint. Other videos on YouTube offer slightly different techniques and they are worth searching and checking out. To make a tighter/smaller knot you want to bring the needle back down in the same hole. We recommend you do that here.

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:

Work this stitch in horizontal rows back and forth. The stitches go from bottom to top so that when you work the row beneath, the needle comes up in a clean hole and goes down in an occupied hole, giving you neater stitches.

Middle Blue Flower Center (Orange)—Diagonal Mosaic:

Pale Pink Leaves Bottom Flower—Byzantine #2:

This stitch is worked in diagonal rows like a Basketweave stitch.

Dusky Pink Bottom Left Flower—Woven Trellis stitch:

Bottom Right Orange Flower—Skip Tent stitch:

Dark Green Leaves—Diagonal Satin stitches of random lengths.

Satin stitches are simply straight stitches that lie parallel to each other. They form a lustrous, satiny effect. Satin stitches can be straight up and down on the horizontal or vertical, or they can be diagonal. The only important thing is that they are in parallel.

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.

Instructions for French knots are given above. Long stitches are simply stitches longer than a Tent stitch. They are over 2 or more intersections, and are often used to outline or emphasize a feature. Here we stitched them straight onto the canvas, but you can also apply them at the end as surface embroidery on top of the underlying stitches.

All the other areas are tent stitches.

Please reach out to us at info@poppymonkneedlepointkits.com if you have any questions. If something isn’t clear to you there will be other stitchers with the same questions. We will not only answer you, we use your questions to improve our stitch guide! We’re always glad to hear from you.

You can find this Cutting Garden needlepoint kit here.

Cutting Garden floral needlepoint kit with stitch guide