How to Embroider: Wagon Wheel Stitch- Video and Step by Step Tutorial

Wagon Wheel Stitch

The wagon wheel stitch, also known as the woven wagon wheel and the wagon wheel rose, creates a raised woven circle on the front of the fabric. It's often used to create roses. Use this DIY video and step-by-step tutorial to learn how to embroider the wagon wheel stitch.

What you'll need to create the wagon wheel stitch:

Wagon Wheel Stitch Video

Wagon Wheel Stitch Step-by-Step Tutorial

1. Bring your needle up through the back of the fabric to the front along the circle’s edge. Making a straight stitch, go back down in the middle of the circle. Repeat until you have 5 straight stitches meeting in the center of the circle. When creating the wagon wheel you always need an odd number of straight stitches.

2. Next, bring your needle back up through the fabric next to the center of the circle.

3. Now you will weave your thread around the spokes on top of the fabric. Bring your needle over, under, over the spokes. Pull the thread in the center of the wagon wheel tight and loosen the weave and you get to the outer edges of the wheel.

4. Bring the needle back down through the fabric when you end the wagon wheel stitch.

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