1 Cor 13:13 Floral Scripture Embroidery Pattern

Welcome Back to the Third and Final Floral Scripture Embroidery Pattern!

Today I present to you the last embroidery pattern in my love series, taken from 1 Corinthians 13:13. The first pattern is here: 1 Cor 16:14 Floral Scripture Embroidery Pattern – Friendstitch Embroidery, and the second pattern is here: 1 John 4:19 Floral Scripture Embroidery Pattern – Friendstitch Embroidery.

The scripture found in 1 Cor 13:13 is a reminder that of all the spiritual gifts God grants us, faith, hope, and love are the greatest, and love even greater than the other two. As believers, there are many gifts that God may grant us, such as speaking in tongues or prophesying, but as Cor 13:8 says, these gifts will pass away, but faith, hope, and love will never pass away. I hope this is an encouragement to you as you stitch this pattern!

The Good News

Like the two embroidery patterns before it, this pattern is beginner friendly and easy to follow. There are actually fewer stitches used in this pattern than the two before it. That being said, it still probably took a bit longer, because there are more roses.

The Bad News (It’s Really Quite Bad)

Listen, remember in the first pattern when I said that I am not good at choosing colours and I simply got lucky the first time around? Well, now you will see the proof of that statement. You see, I actually finished the whole pattern, and when I got to the end, I hated the colours. They just didn’t look good. Don’t believe me? Just look at this atrocity and weep.

Admit it, that looks awful. So as the main image suggests, I had to take out all the roses and choose different colours. I had already stitched the words, so I decided to leave those and rework the whole pattern. My sister suggested that the problem was that the roses needed leaves around them. Unfortunately, there was no room for the leaves at this point, so back to the drawing board I went to redesign the pattern. I think it ended up on turning out pretty well!

Materials List

1. 7″ hoop
2. Fabric, preferably cotton or cotton/linen blend in white or cream
3. Water-soluble marker or heat-erasable pen. I recently bought my heat-erasable pen from this Etsy shop: Black Frixion Pen for Embroidery Pattern Transfer, Heat Erasable Transfer Method, Hand Embroidery Supplies, Pilot Disappearing Ink – Etsy Canada
4. Embroidery needle
5. Seam ripper or scissors
6. Embroidery floss:
   Anchor 349 (DMC 301) – Rust
   Anchor 276 (DMC 543) – Cream
   Anchor 4146 (950) – Pink
   Anchor 891 (DMC 676) – Yellow
   Anchor 900 (DMC 648) – Pale Green
   Anchor 858 (DMC 524) – Light Green
   Anchor 856 (DMC 370) – Dark Green
   Anchor 8581 (DMC 3022) – Teal Green

There you go, everything you need to get started on this free floral embroidery pattern! The PDF pattern is at the bottom of this page.

Step 1 – Trace the Pattern

Trace your pattern onto your fabric. To do that, you can put your phone with the flashlight on under a pan. There’s more information on my blog post here: Everything You Need to Know About Starting Your First Embroidery Project – Friendstitch Embroidery. If your fabric is lightweight enough, you may be able to just put your fabric in the hoop and then trace right on top of the printed pattern. For all three of these embroidery patterns, that’s what I did. Some people will tape their pattern onto a window, but you do whatever is easiest and will cause your hand to cramp the least.

As you can see, the words are already stitched. Just ignore that part, as the instructions on how to do that will be later on in the tutorial.

Step 2 – The Rust Roses

Using 6 strands of Anchor 349 (DMC 301) – Rust, make a woven wheel for both of the rust-coloured roses. Watch this tutorial by Cutesy Crafts if you’ve never done that before: How to do a Woven Wheel Stitch.

Step 3 – The Cream Roses

Using 6 strands of Anchor 276 (DMC 543) – Cream, make a woven wheel for the two cream roses.

Step 4 – The Small Yellow Roses

Using 4 strands of Anchor 891 (DMC 676) – Yellow, make a woven wheel for the four yellow roses.

Step 5 – The Pink Roses

Using 6 strands of Anchor 4146 (950) – Pink, make a woven wheel for the two pink roses.

Step 6 – The Small Pale Green Roses

Using 4 strands of Anchor 900 (DMC 648) – Pale Green, make a woven wheel for the itty bitty green roses. Are roses ever green? No, I don’t think so, but it doesn’t matter.

Step 7 – The Big Leaves

Using 6 strands of Anchor 858 (DMC 524) – Light Green, make a fishbone stitch for the leaves around the rust-coloured roses. Watch this tutorial by Cutesy Crafts to learn how to do that: Embroider Leaves with the Fishbone Stitch.

Step 8 – The Leaves Around the Outside Yellow Roses

Using 3 strands of Anchor 8581 (DMC 3022) – Teal Green, make a fishbone stitch on the outside yellow flowers.

Step 9 – The Leaves Around the Other Yellow Roses

Using Anchor 856 (DMC 370) – Dark Green, make a woven wheel stitch around the inner yellow roses.

Step 10 – The Leaves Around the Pink Roses

Using 3 strands of Anchor 856 (DMC 370) – Dark Green, make a fishbone stitch around the outside pink roses.

Step 11 – The Printed Scripture Words

Okay, things might get a bit weird here, but stick with me. Seeing as I had already done the words when I went back and changed the pattern, this is going to look a bit wonky. Just ignore the roses and only focus on the words.

Using 2 strands of Anchor 856 (DMC 370) – Dark Green, fill in the printed scripture verse with a back stitch. If you’re a noob (no offense), watch this tutorial by Cutesy Crafts to learn how to do that: How to Back Stitch.

Step 12 – The Scripture Reference

Man, I really thought I got all the pictures! I guess I forgot to include the scripture reference picture, sorry about that.

Using 2 strands of Anchor 856 (DMC 376) – Dark Green, fill in the scripture reference with a back stitch.

Step 13 – The Small Cursive Letters

Using 2 strands of Anchor 856 (DMC 370) – Dark Green, fill in the cursive scripture with a back stitch. You’ll want to stagger your stitches so that it doesn’t look too blocky.

Step 14 – The Final Lovely Word

Using 4 strands of Anchor 856 (DMC 370) – Dark Green, fill in the cursive scripture with a back stitch.

Here’s a closeup so that you get a better idea of what I mean when I say stagger the stitches.

Step 15 – The Border

Using 6 strands of Anchor 8581 (DMC 3022) – Teal Green, fill in the border with a running stitch. Here’s a tutorial for that: How to do a Running Stitch. Sorry for the whiplash with this picture! We are back to the second version of the pattern with this one.

Step 12 – Erasing the Pattern

If you’re using a water soluble marker, wash the piece under a light stream of lukewarm water, and then let it dry overnight by placing it facedown onto a towel.

If you used a heat erasable pen, iron lightly over the stitches. I would strongly recommend getting yourself a heat erasable pen. That way, you don’t have to wait for several hours for anything to dry. As well, a heat erasable pen allows you to erase your pattern and immediately re-do it if you made a mistake while tracing.

Step 13 – Finishing the Back

If you’re keeping your project in the hoop, cut out a piece of felt and stitch it to the back. Here’s a quick tutorial by Stitcharama: How To Finish The Back Of Your Embroidery Hoop With Felt: 30-Second Tutorial.

If you plan to put the piece in a frame, just cut a couple inches past your piece and glue it to the glass part of your frame. The back piece of the frame will cover up all the stitches and you don’t need to do anything fancy. If you can afford it, there are some absolutely gorgeous wooden frames you can purchase from this Etsy shop: UniversalHappyGift – Etsy Canada.

Project Complete!

Now wasn’t that fun? You’re ready to gift the piece to a friend or just keep it for yourself in your home! Here’s a photo of the staged piece, in case you need a bit of inspiration.

As always, I hope you had a wonderful stitching this up, and that as you did so, you were able to reflect on the truth and comfort the scripture provides.

Here’s the PDF pattern:

Because the top and bottom sections mirror each other, just duplicate the instructions from the pattern.

Got comments on this floral scripture embroidery pattern? Got criticisms? Feel free to leave them in the comments below!