Cretan stitch embroidery

Today brings us our last stitch tutorial and the final page (for now) for your stitch book. Next week I will begin the instructions for you to make up your book to hold all of your wonderful practise pages and...

New month, new stitches! Today and few next days let's take a look at cretan stitch and some of its variations as well as herringbone stitch and romanian couching. I tried to group them together based on the fact that they are often used in crewel embroidery as a filling technique and also they are quite popular for working leaves and similar shapes. Cretan stitch will be quite easy to conquer if you are already familiar with fly stitch and feather stitch because the technique is very…

Cretan stitch gets a bad rap, in my opinion. It's normally demonstrated open, with the stitches spread out so that they look kind of like a pointed and twisted herringbone stitch. And that's all well and fine - but cretan stitch can do more than form decorative lines. When worked closed, it can fill

Our world is white today here in Freddy Beach! Yesterday's storm has left us with a clean fresh white blanket.. I don't mind the snow, I just don't like the cold that accompanies it! Hope you enjoyed those summer blossoms I posted last night- at least they remind us that summer is on its way... Here is this week's stitching - I finished up last night as the freezing rain beat on the window behind me. Sharon challenged us with Cretan stitch this week. It is another of my favourites. I had…

Along with my blogger friend Leela I tried knotted cretan stitch and later did a project on my daughter's dress. I changed a little bit of knotted cretan stitch unlike the regular one. The dress had prints on it with flowers and leaves which were best suited for cretan stitch. So I did knotted cretan stitch for leaves and cretan stitch for leaves. Threads are cone threads. How did you like it!!?

With March being harvest time for wine grapes - when the grapes are ready, they are ready. The grapes don't wait and neither does the wi...

This is a variation of the Cretan stitch. It shows a technique where knots can be added on the elbows to give it a decorative look. The thicker the thread, the bigger the knot that will be formed. It can look similar to a zigzagged coral stitch...

With March being harvest time for wine grapes - when the grapes are ready, they are ready. The grapes don't wait and neither does the wi...

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Also known as: Persian stitch, Long-armed feather stitch This stitch is used as a filling stitch, especially in crewel embroidery. Various effects can be produced by altering the angle of the stitches or even closing them in or opening them out...