How to do blanket stitch wheels

Blanket stitch wheels are used on in my cat embroidery design and also on the middle bird on my chirpy birds embroidery design. They're a useful way of creating a circle shape.

Here's a blanket stitch wheels tutorial complete with illustrated embroidery stitch instructions and an embroidery stitch video.

Blanket stitch wheel tutorial

Bring the needle through the fabric on the outer edge of the circle at 1, pushing it back through at 2.
Keep the thread behind the needle and pull it through at 3.
Leave a loop of thread, push it back through at 2, then up at 4 on the outer edge with the thread behind to make the next stitch.
Continue stitching round the wheel.
To finish off, make a tiny stitch over the thread to hold the last loop in place.

Download my free stitch guide covering 10 basic embroidery stitches, including blanket stitch.