How to make flowers with the steam stitch

The steam point is a classic point in the art of embroidery and is mostly used for comforishing. It is often used for making small flowers, given that this point gives a sense of lightness to work. This motif is usually applied in some doily or possibly placed in the bibs for newborns, whose particularity will be the relief of the chosen motif. The procedure is very simple and therefore is also suitable for beginners, but you will have to pay close attention to the various steps and be very patient.

For the steam point you have to get yourself: 

• a needle, scissors, 
• embroidery cotton,
•  a cotton fabric.

Start by threading the thread through the eye of the needle, then insert it into the fabric and go out halfway with the needle, then with the thumb of the right hand, hold the thread still. Now, holding the thread firmly, wrap the last 5 or 6 times on the needle with your left hand.

You will eventually get a kind of spiral. Hold the spiral with your left thumb and remove the needle. Finally, in order to definitively fix the vapor point, you will have to enter the same point where it was inserted the first time.