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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
Outline Stitch Video Tutorial - NeedlenThread. com The outline stitch is a basic stitch used in hand embroidery for lines and filling It's an easy embroidery stitch and works up quickly, with a nice rhythm You can work the stitch in a "sewing method" (in hand embroidery, this means "scooping" the fabric up with the needle to make the stitch) or
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
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!
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
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
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
Embroidery Stitch Video Tutorial: Stem Stitch - NeedlenThread. com Stem Stitch is also used in Casalguidi Embroidery, worked over thick string to create a highly textured, super-raised stem stitch rope You can find instructions for this Casalguidi embroidery technique here And finally, stem stitch can be used to fill an area, by working rows of stem stitch close together
Stitch Tip: A Clean Start with Two Strands - NeedlenThread. com Many of the stitchers have tutorials and I loved this technique when I first tried it I also learned the Pin stitch which is great for an isolated stitch or a design with lots of different colors that only have 1 or a few stitches which they refer to as “confetti” It’s a great way to avoid carrying threads in the back
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