Idea1: Wool Felt Applique with Embroidered Details
- Cut out basic flower shapes from wool felt. Think of simple petals, leaves, and centers.
- Arrange and adhere these felt shapes onto your base fabric. You can use fabric glue or stitch them lightly in place.
- Use embroidery floss in fine stitches (like backstitch, stem stitch, or satin stitch) to add delicate details. These could be vein lines on petals, stamen details in the center, or outlines to define the shapes more precisely, mimicking the fine lines of a pencil drawing.
- Consider using different weights of embroidery floss to create varying line thicknesses, just like you would with a pencil.
Idea 2: Embroidered Wool Yarn Outlines Filled with Texture
- Use a pencil to lightly draw your floral design onto your base fabric.
- With a thicker wool yarn and a tapestry needle, embroider along the pencil lines using a stem stitch or chain stitch. This creates a raised, textured outline of your flower.
- You can then leave the inside of the flower outlined in wool, creating a bold, graphic look. Alternatively, you could fill the inner spaces with more wool yarn using techniques like couching or even by carefully needle-felting small pieces of wool within the embroidered lines.