Lacey Thread Designs

Hi, thanks for your email regarding the Florette stitch! 

One thing to remember is that the stitch is done the same way on each loop, so you could have one loop or twenty loops close together...This flower is three loops placed very close together.

The first step is to make the loop with the silk ribbon. I like to come up to the front and go to the back with the silk ribbon in the same hole or just one thread apart.  (For the flower make three silk ribbon loops about one thread apart.  Then using one strand of DMC white, bring the needle to the front of the fabric in the center of the loop, come straight up through the silk ribbon loop, thread a bead onto your needle if doing a flower with beads, and then back down through the silk ribbon loop at the very same spot you came up in, and then back down through the fabric at the very same place you came up in.  As you pull the thread tight, it will pucker and gather the silk ribbon loop into a "rosette" with a bead (or not) in the center of the flower.