1:

Wind bobbins to match the thread colors you will use (three colors).

 2:

Gather floral supplies: florist's tape, 22 gauge cloth covered wire, a hot glue gun, wire cutters, a hot stencil cutter or small embroidery scissors with Fray Check, two 1" foam balls, micro beads, white glue and a bead or pearl on a piece of wire.

 3:

Prepare to embroider. Use two hooped layers of mesh stabilizer such as Floriani's No-Show Mesh for each design. To make three orchid flowers, you will need to embroider "3-d Orchid 2-1" (stitches enough pieces for two flowers), and "3-d Orchid 2-2" (stitches enough pieces for one flower), and optionally embroider "Orchid Leaf" (stitches two leaves which you can add to your flower stem).

 4:

Bend a stem of wire in half, and run each end into the foam balls.

 5:

Cover the balls with white glue and cover them with micro beads.

 6:

Wrap the wire stem in florist's tape.

 7:

Cut out the embroidered petal pieces. If you use a stencil cutter, do so while the embroidery is still in the hoop. If you use embroidery scissors, I recommend running a bead of fray check around each petal and letting it dry before you begin cutting.

 8:

Glue wire down the center back of the petals.

 9:

Shape the two small petals around the pearl stem, and loop the clover-shaped petal down over the pearl.

 10:

The next two pieces to add are the large two-color petals. Place them with the wire side facing out, on the sides of the flower as constructed so far.

 11:

Next, add the top petal. This is a medium-sized, one-colored petal.

 12:

The last petals to add have a pointed end. They go on the bottom of the flower underneath the arrow-head shaped piece. Use a dab of glue to place them exactly, and bind stems together with florist's tape.

 13:

Repeat steps for the remaining two flowers, so that you have three completed flowers.

 14:

Starting with the foam balls, create a long stem of flowers, adding flowers successively beneath the balls. Add embroidered leaves to the stem if you wish.