I've had a light denim jacket in my closet, waiting most of the year for a first attempt at embroidery, and as an old-time/country fiddler I was drawn immediately to the chain-stitch style. 

Inspired by old botanical illustrations, I used Procreate to illustrate a nasturtium design. The thought was a design that either moved down the side of the jacket, or mirrored on the other side—but as a first project I picked a smaller space for accomplishment's sake. 

I ended up needing to go back and simplify the design and add an outline, but overall it wasn't too difficult to replicate, using the original sketch as suggestion. I chose a dark purple thread for the outline, ending up with four colors of thread.

I had some great downtime over the holidays to finish the bulk of the embroidery. I had such a great time with it, that my next steps will be to decide how to expand it along the garment, and then put the finishing threads and bling on afterwards. 

Close-up of final embroidery project.

Jacket with nasturtium embroidery! The style feels so different, likely because it's not a western-style jacket. My thoughts to make the garment complete are to add more flowers down the same panel, including green nasturtium leaves. And/or along the opposite side (there's an odd pocket there). I think the collar would look great with pick-stitching, and I'd like to add rhinestones once I finalize the rest. 

 

Really enjoyed the class, was inspiring and easy to follow along!