Embroidery 101: How to Embroider A Pistil Stitch

[Music] hi everybody I'm Natalie with Missouri Star Quilt Company and today we're going to learn how to do the pistol Stitch now the pistol Stitch is basically a straight line of thread with a French knot at the end and they're commonly used for like the centers of flowers or maybe making a fireworks something that kind of a dandelion it would be very great for that all right so I've got my floss and my needle is threaded I have a knot in the end and we're going to start by coming up through the back of the fabric at the end of where you want your um Stitch to start and then what you're going to do is go and hold your thread out about the length of your Stitch and then wrap the thread around your needle just like you're doing a French knot and it just goes straight in you can do your as many wraps as you want and that again determines how fat your French knot is or big and then you just continue that's that's it it's just that simple so we'll do a few of these here I'm holding my thread as long as I want it to be and then wherever I want that French knot is where I stick my needle back in after wrapping the thread around it three or four times holding it tight with the thumb of my left hand and pulling that tight so it's pretty simple it's one of those ones that looks a little bit complicated cuz you just don't know how to do it yet but that is kind of how life is right once you learn it's not as hard as you think all right I'm going to do a couple more and then we will head over to the hoops so you can get a closer look [Music] [Music] [Music] so I always enjoy learning new things and I hope you guys have enjoyed this too I hope it inspires your creativity and gives you a little courage to try new things um I think it'll look so so great in the centers of flowers or dandelions fireworks whatever fun things you want to create and I hope you've enjoyed this Stitch from the Missouri Star Quilt Company [Music]