Caterina Mezzapelle
This embroidery stitch is also known as Vandyke chain stitch. It is a line stitch and filling used on plain-and even-weave fabrics and is suitable for use with any type of embroidery thread.
You can make decorative zigzag line-an unusual outline for a shape. Work in the same way as ordinary chain stitch, but each chain loop is set at right angles to the previous one to create the zigzag line. Continue reading…
This embroidery stitch is also known as double cable stitch Zigzag. It is a simple but effective variation of ordinary cable stitch. It is a line stitch and filling used on plain-and-even-weave fabrics.
The stitches are formed in exactly the same manner as cable stitch, but each one is worked at right angles to the previous one to make a zigzag line. When used as a line stitch, zigzag cable stitch is usually worked in straight lines, as it does not follow curves well. Continue reading…
Vandyke stitch is an attractive filling stitch often used for leaf shapes. It can also be worked as a border.
Up and Down Buttonhole Stitch is similar to German knotted buttonhole stitch but with a smoother, neater finish.stitch. This is also known as Mirrored buttonhole stitch, it is useful for outlines, but can also be used as an open filling stitch when parallel rows are worked close together.
Twisted chain stitch is a simple variation of chain stitch that involves twisting the thread while making the loop. When worked in a fairly thick thread it creates a braid-like texture, as can be seen on the leaf and flower stems in the Jacobean design opposite. Continue reading…
Scroll stitch is also known as single knotted line stitch, this kind of embroidery makes attractive border. Marking a line on the fabric will help keep the stitches straight. This stitch can be used on plain-and even-weave fabrics. It makes a simple knotted line that flows around curves and follows intricate details well; it is often used to depict areas of water.
Any type of embroidery thread can be used with scroll stitch, providing that it is compatible with the weight of the ground fabric. A floss thread gives a much flatter effect than a rounded thread, such as pearl or soft cotton. It is very quick and easy to use and runs from left to right along the line. Continue reading…
Open Cretan Stitch may be used for decorative borders and edgings and appliqué. For regular stitches, use evenweave, or mark fabric with four parallel lines.
This quick and easy embroidery stitch is a variation of chain stitch. It gives a ladder-like effect, it is also known as Roman chain or square chain stitch, ladder stitch, small writing (when the stitches are narrow) and big writing (when the stitches are wide).
Open chain stitch can be worked to give either an open or closed effect, to do it you can simply adjusting the spacing between parallel lines to make a heavy outline and can couch down cards, narrow embroidery thread or ribbons. Continue reading…
This embroidery stitch is also known as centipede stitch and knotted loop stitch. This is a line stitch and it is used on plain and even weave fabrics. It has a raised, plaited centre. and it is normally used on the straight, but it will follow a curve, providing that it is gradual.
Loop stitch can also be used to fill narrow shapes by varying the lenght of the outside stitches and outlining the shape with back stitch or stem stitch for greater definition. Continue reading…
Lazy Daisy Stitch is a very simple and easy way to work the petals of tiny flowers as small daisies or forhet-me-nots. One Lazy Daisy Stitch makes each petal.
Ladder Stitch is a kind of embroidery stitch used on plain-and even weave fabrics. It has a ladder-like appearance, hence the name, and it is used as a border stitch or to fill a long, narrow shape of varying width.
This stitch should always be worked on fabric stretched in an embroidery hoop or frame to prevent it form distorting the fabric.
When the stitch is worked in a straight line, guidelines may need to be drawn on the fabric, unless the fabric threads can be counted, to keep the line straight. The rungs of the ladder can be placed close together to achive a solid effect or can be spaced apart to give the stitch a more lacy appearance.
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This kind of embroidery stitch is a decorative variation of the regular buttonhole stitch or blanket stitch. Knotted Buttonhole stitch has a knot at the top of the edge.
Straight Stitch is shown as single, spaced stitches worked either in a regular or irregular manner. Sometimes the stitches are of varying size. The stitches should be neither too long nor too loose.
Stem stitch is one of the most popular outlining stitches.
You can use this stitch to utline flowers or to fill an area, unshaded leaves, and arabesque, and all conventional designs.
Work Straight Stitches across the shape as shown. If desired, Chain Stitch or Running Stitch may be worked first to form a padding underneath, to give a raised effect.
Cross Stitch In The World
August 7, 2008
Cross-stitch is one of the common and oldest techniques still used. Samplers, pillows, paintings, bookmarks and lots of accessories for the home embroidered in cross-stitch adorn millions of rooms in several countries in the world, this simple technique of embroidery has become a real creative and rewarding pastime for millions and millions of people around the world .
Cross-stitch is one of the embroidery techniques known as counted thread embroidery and it is realized in tissues where you can easily count the wires.
There are tissues with regular weft and warp above which produces embroidery, playing an important role when the work is completed.
Most of counted thread embroidery are relatively simple. The main requirements for this type of embroidery are:
- be able to count the wires,
- interpret a pattern or memorize the motif
- acquire an uniform precision in allstitches
Although tecniques are simple, designs that can be made are sometimes very complex.
Cross-stitch is an embroidery technique used in all the world. It’s very easy to do, it is suitable for drawings or abstract figures, and appears with very precise lines. In small work you can get an effect really purposes and elegant – sometimes with subtle nuances – such as Denmark embroidery with his naturalistic themes.
The cross-stitch technique can also be used to create outdoor areas by the figures. In the West, cross-stitch is also used as a contour stitch. In the Anglo-Saxons countries, you can find cross-stitch in paintings, in the eighteenth century this tradition became the basic stitch for decorative samplers.
The first samplers were simply collections of different points of embroidery, worked on fabrics linen and embroidery from preserved as a model. Following the samplers models were transformed into pieces of furniture and were used in a number of reasons used for curtains. Birds, flowers, trees, houses and patriotic images, such as the American eagle were the reasons most widely used. Embroidery a sampler was part of the girls education.
It could use a wide variety of embroidery stitches in these samplers, but cross-stitch embroidery. was tused very often. In tents were embroidered floral subjects like branches, vases with flowers or other stylized flowers. The images of stylized nature, often becoming unrecognizable, were also embroidered cross-stitch clothes also typical species in many countries of Eastern Europe, Morocco and the Middle East.
In most cross-stitch embroidery the background is not embroidered. This inverts when it’s udes another kind of stitch like Assisi stitch: it’s a style developed in Italy in the sixteenth century. Here the background is worked in cross-stitch, or a variant, and the reasons leave empty.
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