Some Interesting Stitches

I keep going on about Floral Feather Stitch as one of my favourites. I’ve done a video of it and uploaded it to my MakerTube “Interesting Stitches” channel, in hopes of seeing more people taking it up. It has been auto-captioned, and I’ve not worked out how to correct infelicities yet. But at least you may find it helpful.

Another stitch I’ve recorded, I’ve called Super Closed Feather Stitch. It doesn’t quite cross over, but on Stella’s Birds I found it made quite an interesting line, and since textures are very much part of the fun of embroidery, I thought it was worth sharing.

Finally, although it’s hardly new, I thought some of you might like to see again the recording of Holly Braid Stitch in its new home on MakerTube. This is one of the stitches from one of Jacqui Carey’s books about Elizabethan stitchery, and although it’s beautifully diagrammed in the book, the workflow didn’t quite work for me as diagrammed. Looking at this video helps me to rediscover it when I decide to use the stitch again. In particular, I usually work line stitches towards myself, and this one I can only work successfully in the other direction!