January 31 2011
Monday at 12:30 PM
Stitch FAIL
First Steps - Just like the picture!
On a trip to Seattle a while back, I participated in an SnB at my friend Mary Woodring's. I cracked open one of her many embroidery books and was inspired to try a "crossed buttonhole stitch". Okay! Let's do this!
Next Steps - Um, not like the picture.
Uh...it didn't go so well. And I really, really tried! Head-scratching, looking at the book, looking at my hoop...Mary even came over and we tried to figure it out together and no luck. Sometimes this happens. Can you do a crossed buttonhole stitch? I can't. Not yet, at least.
I *think* the book I'm looking at is an earlier edition of Mary Thomas's Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches (a classic!).
Sharry
Your newsletter always makes me smile and laugh.
Finally went to your blog! What took me so long?
Thank you, just thank you!
Sharry
Lainpie
I think you need some slack in your fabric in the hoop so that you can more easily take the needle through and back up in one fell swoop. My favorite book for explaining stitches is “Encyclopedia of Embroidery Stitches” by Marion Nichols. I believe it’s a Dover publication and the illustrations for all stitches remains the clearest in terms of how to execute the stitches.
TheStitchyLife
I’ve never tried a button hole stitch! I do have some old transfers that call for a blanket stitch so close together that you can cut the fabric out in the middle!
One thing I did learn during super bowl, cause I was stitching instead, was another way to do a stem stitch. Most of my teaching has come from you (and OH the compliments I receive… I direct them to you of course!). My Aunt teaches embroidery at a middle school and showed me how she does the stem stitch (I told her how difficult that one was for me) and HOLY MOLY!!! It comes out so perfectly straight… just like my 1940’s linens! Here’s a link to a diagram like it…. just as an example http://inaminuteago.com/stitchdict/stitch/stem.html
Hope you’re doing well :D
antARTica
Oh, yeah, this one’s a bit hard to follow in Thomas’s Dictionary of Stitches. Check out
http://handembroidery.ning.com/page/blanket-stitch. Note that here it’s called a crossed blanket stitch. But good step by step photos!
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madrebello
Hi : If you want to do this go to http://www.artsanddesigns.com/cgi-bin/makeGlossary.pl?category=embroidery§ion=C the directions are very simple. I did it in a few minutes. If you cant link to this let me know and I will explain the directions.
jenaissance
I just got Mary Thomas’s Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches from the library today. Amazing amount of stitches inside. I haven’t tried the crossed buttonhole stitch yet but will let you know if I’m successful. (I usually need actual photos of the stitches and step by step ones at that, so don’t count on it. lol) ;)