|
- Stitch Fun: Stacked Herringbone – It’s Double, but it’s Not
Today, we’re going to enjoy a bit of Stitch Fun – musing about a stitch, wondering about its name, and showing you how it’s worked Stitch Fun! is this series of stitching tutorials here on Needle ‘n Thread In the series, we explore different embroidery stitches mostly as combinations or composites, used in different ways and offering
- Highlighting Satin Stitch – NeedlenThread. com
But the stitching principles in the book apply to padded satin stitch in other applications as well Today’s Key Point: the Size of the Element The key point that I want to highlight today, before directing you to other articles on satin stitch, is this: Satin stitch is not a full-ground-covering stitch for large elements on embroidery projects
- Learning Lots of Stitches How to Go About It
The whole point of Stitch Sampler Alphabet was to sample a boatload of different stitches and composites and combinations, while completing an alphabet of decorative initials Cotton Quartet – one of the Stitch Snippet stitch-alongs from a couple years ago – is a sampler The purpose of it was to sample different types of threads, more than
- Embroidery Stitch Templates – for Straight Uniform Stitches
Then, you stitch the line by following your dot pattern that’s left on the fabric Simple! Pros Cons Like any product, there are pros and cons to the stitch templates The pros are pretty obvious: You can easily and quickly mark a line for embroidery using the templates, ensuring a consistent, even line of stitching that can be further
- Stitch Archives – a Super-Raised Stem Stitch – NeedlenThread. com
The nature of the raised part of the embroidery is basically a super-dee-duper padded stem stitch You’ll find a very thorough step-by-step photo tutorial for this ultra-raised stem stitch, or Casalguidi stitch, here If you like the look of Casalguidi, but you don’t want something quite so raised, you might enjoy raised stem stitch instead
- Upcoming Stitch-Along: Garden Swirl for Summer
The entire thing (which is about 3 75″ in diameter) doesn’t take too long to stitch I’ve kept the stitches, the thread options, and the whole approach fairly simple The learning points in this stitch-along will be a simple approach to long short stitch on small elements and the finishing techniques that involve mounting as a box top
- 16 Filling Stitches for Embroidery - NeedlenThread. com
Another stitch more often associated with lines, chain stitch makes a terrific filling! You can work chain stitch as a filling in the traditional manner of working chain stitch, filling the area by working rows close together These articles on tambour embroidery will show you what chain stitch looks like when worked as a filling If you feel
- Stitch Fun: Velvet Stitch - Some More Fluff! - NeedlenThread. com
Velvet stitch involves a kind of cross stitch, so we’ll begin the stitch by taking the first part of the stitch from lower left to upper right, in the direction of the arrow indicated in the photo above And there’s the first part of the stitch – a straight diagonal stitch taken from lower left to upper right Not too complex so far!
|
|
|