Scottish thistle embroidery pattern

Scottish Thistle that I stitched for my Mother

How to make 3D embroidered flowers: a quick step-by-step in nine easy moves. Learn to embroider thistles or pineapples as well!

This little thistle was part of a recent commission. It is in a slightly heraldic style with long and short leaves and flower head with extra straight stitches for all the spikes. All worked in stranded cotton. It looks shiny as the lengths are kept very short for working. Frustrating as you only do a few stitches of each colour but vital to keep a good sheen on the thread. Thistle stitched in long and short with stranded cotton on silk dupion.

This Scottish Thistle Cross Stitch Pattern is an easy stitch and makes a sweet gift or memento for the Scotland lover in your life.

Happy Saturday! This morning, a free pattern to add to the collection of hand embroidery patterns here on Needle 'n Thread! This one is a highly formal, stylized thistle. I love thistles in hand embroidery - there are so many ways they can be embroidered! I've seen puffy, hairy thistles, worke

When they named them thistles they weren't kidding. These are some painful "flowers" and they're not just in Scotland!

Celebrate autumn with 10 autumn-themed embroidery projects. From leaves to pumpkins, you will find the perfect pattern featuring fall here.

Light-stitching and perfect for subtle embellishment on shirts and jackets. It may look pretty, but there's a reason the Scots chose the thistle as their emblem - it's prickly and tough and you really do not want to mess with it.

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