How to make a Hand Embroidery Rose, Beginner Friendly

There are many different ways to embroider flowers in hand embroidery, I will be showing you one of my favorite techniques to make a hand embroidery rose. This technique is beginner-friendly and very easy to learn. For more hand embroidery tutorials click here.

This tutorial is for how to make a hand embroidery rose using the wagon wheel technique. For this tutorial, I used the full 6 strands of embroidery floss.

Step 1 – Draw a pattern for your hand embroidery rose

Draw your pattern

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Draw a circle. This will roughly be the size the rose will end up being, so make sure you draw the right size. Next, we are going to draw five lines coming out from the middle. Try to make the five parts as even as possible. You should have a wagon wheel pattern.

Step 2

Bring your needle up through the middle of the wagon wheel and follow your five wagon wheel lines. You should now have a wagon wheel with the spokes outlined.

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Step 3

Start your needle close to the center of the wagon wheel bringing your needle up from the back. Next, we are going to weave the needle in and out of the wagon wheel spokes. The pattern is over and under.

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Step 4

Keep weaving your needle (over and under the spokes) until your wagon wheel is almost full.

Step 5 – Your completed hand embroidery rose

To complete your wagon wheel push the needle back through to the back of the fabric and tie it off.

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Well done on your hand embroidery rose. To make a hand embroidery leaf, like in the above picture. Check out this tutorial

Tips and Tricks:

>Do not pull the embroidery floss too tight, this will ruin the wagon wheel rose and make it look all warped. Let the floss be looser sitting compared to other embroidery stitches.

>When starting the wagon wheel rose make sure you have a lot of thread on your needle

>Try using two different colors or multi colored embroidery floss for a different look.

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Happy Embroidering