I love hydrangeas, but they can be bears to stitch. Like any flower that made up of many small individual florets, how do you convey those small flowers without it being too fussy?
Lilacs and wisteria are other flowers like this, so is Queen Anne’s Lace.
Valerie, the owner of The Enriched Stitch in Connecticut, has come up with a wonderful and easy way to stitch hydrangeas.
Learn about it in her recent blog post.
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Thanks for sharing! I’ll definitely be implementing this addition into my work. AND it also has my head reeling with all the different ways “attaching” things to the canvas can be used.