How to Embroider a Clover Flower – Embroidery Tutorial

Today I challenged myself and embroidered a clover flower! I love incorporating bullion knots in my embroideries and I figured what better way than to use them with this project.

Supplies you’ll need:

• embroidery hoop
• embroidery floss (DMC)
  • 152
  • 936
  • 3033
  • 3012
• fabric
• scissors
• something to transfer your pattern with (these markers or this clear stabilizer works well!)

We’ll only be using a few stitches for this if you’d like to see how to do them:

• satin stitch
• back stitch
• bullion knots

How to Make the Embroidery Stencil

I made a loose drawing with my water soluble marker for this flower. It doesn’t have to be detailed. I started with a small circle and made some markings for where the petals were going to go. Then I drew the stem and one leaf shape!

Embroidery Tutorial Video

Step By Step Embroidery Instructions

I started out embroidering the leaves at the top of the flower. I used color 3033 and made some satin stitches. I left the very bottom petals un-stitched because I’ll be using the pale pink color for those.

The bottom petals are satin stitches with color 152. I then went back in with 2 strands of color 3012 and made straight stitches through each of the petals to make it look like the stems of the little flower petals.

I went back and added a few straight stitches with 3033 in between the pink petals to give the flower a bit more dimension.

For the center of the flower, I added bullion knots using color 3033. I staggered them and stitched them at slightly different angles and filled up the blank space.

For the stem, I made two rows of back stitches with color 936.

I drew a line down the center of the leaf so that I could make my stitches stay nice and even. I then made satin stitches at a diagonal down both sides of the leaf with the same color, 936.

Hope you enjoy! Keep learning: check out even more ways to embroider flowers.

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Amanda

Amanda is a hand embroidery teacher and artist. With over 15 years of experience in the craft industry and embroidery, she owns and runs Crewel Ghoul, sharing accessible tutorials and patterns to help inspire fellow crafters to get creative. In addition to running this website, she teaches on Skillshare and Youtube.