This morning I will talk about two details. The first is the floral motif pictured above and the second is the lace that runs beside the seam. Stitches: The floral motif is made up of bullion knot roses, fly stitch leaves and French knots. The lace and seam are both embellished with detached chain stitch and straight …
Threads magazine has published a tutorial on how to make better cord knots. Susan Khalji has illustrated how to make them softer and easier to tie. These knots are a great finishing technique which can be used with all sorts of crafts situations. It is a handy skill to have …
This band of stitching is made up of blocks of straight stitch worked in a different threads. Thread: A hand dyed mercerised cotton, wool which is about the same weight as Appletons, a soft Danish cotton which feels and works up in a similar way to coton a broder and is matt with no …
Stitches: This detail at first looks a little complex. The seam is embellished with a line of feathered up and down stitch. This has been threaded with a textured bubbly yarn. At the end of the spikes of the up and down stitch I have used bullion knots. They have …
Since people are exploring needleweaving for this months Stitch explorer challenge I thought I might show you another needle woven stitch called Needle woven picot. It is great stitch that you can make short or quite long. They are very effective if worked on mass or if you work them …
This band was made by working threaded running stitch in different threads. Thread: The foundation rows of running stitch were worked in hand dyed cotton threads that had the same thickness as perle #8 thread. I then threaded the rows with different threads. Working from the top down: 3 lines of A …
Buttons and charms Today’s crazy quilt detail is a cluster of buttons and a small charm of a watering can Placement and Foundation Fabric: This covers sections of the seam that is between piece 1, 3 and 4. You will find the diagram in the article I wrote when I …
