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Embellish, and maybe repair, any clothing or household item, with a simple but beautiful embroidered leaf!

First, find something green in your scrap bin, and place it on the washcloth. (There are no sewing police coming around to stop you from using a different color; fall colors in particular could also make sense, but you could also use anything for your own creative reasons.)
Use chalk, a pencil, or a washable marker to draw two curves that come together to make a simple leaf shape. You can use anything circular as a template, or a drawing compass, or freehand it.
Baste about half a fingerwidth inside the outline. Theoretically, you could be more precise, and space the basting line from the drawn line by half a centimeter or a quarter inch; if being precise makes you happy, go for it, but if not, it&rsquo;s OK to embrace the fact that nature makes leaves all kinds of different ways.

Put the leaf fabric in place

Clip off the excess fabric. Depending on how much there is and what you might have a use for, you can toss the excess or put it back in your scrap bin. (The pieces I trimmed off are very small, but I sometimes use scraps for stuffing so I&rsquo;m keeping even them.)

Trim away the excess

Fold under a clipped edge at the side, and start satin stitching over the edge. (Satin stitch is straight stitches, so close together that they touch. The exact distance depends on how thick your thread is, so I used three strands of embroidery floss from my stash instead of two.) Tuck the end of the embroidery cross into the fold so the stitches will hold it in place and it will be snag-proof.

Fold and stitch

Work your way around toward the point, folding and satin stitching as you go.

Keep folding, keep stitching

When you get close to the point, fold from both sides and pinch hard to crease the point. Clip across a bit past the point so it won&rsquo;t be so bulky, then fold again, and satin stitch to the end. Shorten your stitches when you get very near the point to leave room for the other side on the way back.

Start making the point

Turn the leaf around, and start stitching back, first with short stitches to match up and make a corner with the previous short stitches, then regular length stitches to continue.

Turn and finish the point

Keep going around the edge the same way.

Keep going

When you get to the other point, do the same things you did for the first point.

Make the second point

Then, keep going around the part of the first edge that was behind the first stitches you put in.

Keep going some more

When you get close to back to the beginning, the fabric being folded under might look a bit popped out or puffy. Keep pressing it into place and stitching it down.
You can pick out the basting stitches now, and if you want or need to stop that&rsquo;s fine &mdash; you&rsquo;ve got a leaf!
If you want to, though, check the handout for some optional steps to add more detail to your leaf patch.

Finish the border

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I will definitely add more details here.

Yarn is good.

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