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.
How to do Assisi Embroidery
September 12, 2009
Assisi Embroidery is a variation of cross stitch embroidery. It is a very charming italian embroidery and simple to do, with this kind of embroidery you can create decorative works.
Assisi stitching was named after St. Clare of Assisi, “sister” of St. Francis, patron saint of needleworkers. It is worked mainly in cross-stitch and it reprenset a form of counted-thread embroidery based on an ancient Italian tradition where the background is filled with embroidery stitches and the main motifs are left void i.e unstitched.
The name is derived from the Italian town of Assisi where the modern form of the craft originated. The old Assisi Embroideries of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries are worked on white or slightly cream-tinted linen. A faded blue linen thread is used for the cross stitch background and the outline is in a rust-brown thread.
Stitches are the same but the principle of design is reversed, as it is the background which is embroidered with crosses and the pattern left plain and in outline, like an intaglio.
This tretment imparts great dignity to the work, and the designs, which are usually heraldic in character, look effective on banners, ecclesiastical or secular, besides forming handsome borders for tea-cloths, bags, etc.
Designs and Materials
The designs are planned out on graph paper, drawing the birds and beasts in straight lines after the kindergarten principle. Books on heraldry and wood carving will provide many inspirations for this purpose.The designs consist of conventional birds and beasts, very often grotesque and roughly drawn, and interwoven with conventional leaves and flowers and irregular shapes.
Other colours and threads can be effectively used and the designs carried out onn coarser material to suit modern ideas.
Formal designs suit this embroidery best: strange heraldic birds and beats are appropriate, but our English “bunny”, sitting up with ears erect, or a spirited terrier puppy, are exellent substitutes, and will probably appear more to the children wen worked on their frocks. Assisi embroidery is used a great deal for household pieces: mats, cloths and runners, cushion-covers, pyjama-cases, and so on.
The design is outlines first in double running-stitch or in basket-stitch. The former is worked by taking line of running-stitch round the outline, each stitch the lenght of a cross-stitch square, and then coming back, putting a stitch were you left a space the time before, and the other way abput. Frequently the outining is done in black.
A loosely woven linen of even warp and weft should be used, as the work is done on counted threads, making the unit three or four material threads as in Cross Stitch Embroidery. (Finer materials should be chisen when a transfer is being used).
The ground material is usually white or natural and the embroidery worked in two different colours only a black, brown, blue, green or red being chosen for the outline, and a lighrer contrasting shade for the cross stitch background.
The antique effect of the old Assisi embroideries can be obtained by using a rather faded china blue or soft brown for the background with dark blue or black for the outlines. But any two colours are suitable providing a contrast and balance in colour is maintained.
The cross-stich is worked in rows, in which you make the half-stitches slanting them. Remember that the first stitches in each cross, ober the whole background, must slant the same way.
Working Methods
Two different stitches are used; Holbein Stitch for outliniing the design and Cross Stitch for the background, and a mixture of both for the little borders.
Holbein Stitch or Double Running Stitch
This outline stitch is worked in two journeys of even running stitches, the 2nd and follow round the contour to the point of departure, in retourning, the stitches fill up the spaces left, so making a complete outline.
Cross Stitch Embroidery on Canvas
Beautiful designs, partly worked, or with the designs painted on the canvas, can be bought. The entire surface of the canvas is filled in cross-stitch, giving an effect of tapestry work. This type of embroidery is used for covering chair seats and backs, stool tops, pochettes, etc, and is very hard-wearing. Naturalistic effects of the flowers are reproduced as well as conventional designs and copies of various types of period designs.
How to Work Assisi Embroidery
It is possible to mount the canvas in a frame, otherwise it is apt to be pulled out of shape by the embroidery. Start working in the centre, complete the design and then fill in the background. Three-ply wool or soft embroidery is the most suitable thread to be used for a canvas which holds 8 to 10 crosses to 1 inch.
The back of the work should be alike in stitch all over, for the direction the stitch takes at the back effects the appearance of the front. Avoid starting at the same palce in each row as this tends to make a ridge.
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