Brick Stitch


Brick Stitch is also known as

Long and short stitch [EN], Punto matizado / Punto pasado alternado / Punto largo y corto [ES], Passé empietant [FR], Versetzter Plattstich / Nadelmalerei [DE], Punto pittura / Punto raso [IT], Ponto matiz [PT].


How to do the Brick Stitch

The Brick Stitch is a way of filling patterns, especially when the pattern is very big for the Satin Stitch to be applied. Here, the stitches are laid in a brick-like fashion. Shading can be done using this stitch by using a different colored thread for each subsequent row.

Here, the pattern is divided into smaller sections. Every alternate stitch will be small and half the size of the previous stitch. This is how the brick-like effect comes into being. The lesson will help you to understand this.

Fig 1: The leaf is divided into sections marked by A, B, C, D, and so forth.
We begin stitching from the broader end of the leaf towards the stitch lines A and B alternately. The stitches falling on A are short and the stitches falling on B are long.
Fig 2: Now, we stitch the next row. This time, all the stitches will be of the same length. So, stitches from A will fall on C, and stitches from B will fall on D.
Fig 3: Keep tapering the stitch as you go down. Note that, it is only in the first row that we do the stitches long and short. For the rows that follow, all the stitches are of the same length but show up long and short due to the effect we made in the first section. 🙂
A finished leaf would look like this.

How to do this stitch using the 3sat Sakura pattern

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Other stitches from the Satin Stitch Family

Surface Satin

Back Stitched Satin

Trailing Stitch

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