This variety incorporates laced running stitch, taken both ways along the running stitch, to give it a final ‘chain’ look.
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| Lay the foundation by doing a running stitch. Follow the instructions of laced running stitch to get a laced running stitch pattern |
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| Fig 1: Bring another thread out from near the first stitch and the needle under it from the bottom. | Fig 2: Now take the needle under the second stitch from the top. Continue this action of taking the needle under each stitch from the top and bottom alternately. | |
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| Fig 3: A finished line of interlaced running stitch would look like this. | ||
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Dear Sarah,
Your site is just amazing. I have finally found a site which clears all my doubts, and deepens my interest in embroidery.
I stumbled upon this site while i was looking for chikan embroidery tutorials and patterns.
Chicken embroidery with mughal designs interest me a lot. Please incorporate the entire range of chikan stitches in your tutorials like tepchi, jali work. murri etc, patterns too. i would also love to learn how to make needle lace.
Please also incorporate an elaborate peacock design which i can make on a sari pallu.
Thanks for all the beautiful tutorials.
Regards,
Vibha
Dear Vibha,
It is nice to read this comment from you. Thanks for your interest.
I will be adding traditional indian embroidery and other stitches slowly. It takes time and effort to create these tutorials and your interest and suggestions come as encouragement for us.
Dear Sarah,
(our Names are same).;) Well I am just 13 and I found out your site and I am really happy because it contains all the basics and In my new school Work experience Now with your Website has been very Useful..Thank You..:)
Dear Sarah,
It is very nice to know that you found our pages easy to learn from and it is helping your school work too.
Hello dear friend,
I have started again to practice embroidery stitches and found your clear and lovely tutorials in Utube. I have not done embroidery for a while after my first and only course, I forgot a lot. I am planing to continue my crazy quilt cushion. It is so pretty and my husband tells me he would like to see it completed.
Again, thanks for sharing your art!
Best wishes to your family
Your friend Ruth
Hello Ruth,
Hope all is well with you. It is surprising that you found my tutorials in youtube since I have never uploaded anything there!!!
Anyway, I am happy to hear back from you. I would liek to see your projects completed and would ask if you could upload a picture of it on our website so others could draw inspiration from you.
hi sarah,
I have been referring to your site for a long time now. I like the way stitching has been made so simple. i am adding a link of your website for reference of stitches in one of my blog post on stitching in march. hope you don’t mind.
Olha, sempre falei, quando me aposentar iria me dedicar ao bordado, os planos mudaram e comecei fazendo biju (fiz de tudo), migrei pra decupagem em MDF, artesanato com material reciclado, adoro, fiz muitas coisas interessantes, no momento estou me dedicando a elaboras gola colar, mas me deparei com esse maravilhoso site, que ensina as técnicas dos pontos de uma maneira que só em olhar dá pra fazer, já andei pesquisando a respeito, mas nada se compara com esse. Parabéns, pelas postagens, pois está abençoando muitas vidas com seus ensinamentos, bjus
Caro Dilce,
É bom ouvir que nossas páginas têm impressionado você, por sua vez, inspirando-os a assumir os seus planos originais de fazer bordados após a aposentadoria. Eu espero que você aproveite cada página e iria partilhar alguns de seus trabalhos com a gente. Todos os melhores votos em cada coisa que você faz.
Love this site! Thank you for your time & effort to provide this.