ray stitch
Posted by sarah on 23 Aug 2012 | Category:
Also known as: Fan stitch, Fancy fan, Straight Fan
This tutorial is an illustration, of many,on how a few straight stitches can be combined to form patterns to use for embroidery.
This stitch uses eight straight stitches to form a fan like pattern.
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| Fig 1: Begin by making the leg of the ‘fan’, by doing a straight stitch A-B. | Fig 2: Now, make the sitches C-B, D-B, E-B, as shown. | |
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| Fig 3: Continue making these straight stitches in a slanting manner with B as the centre point. The ray or fan effect begins to take shape. | Fig 4: A completed ray stitch would look like this. |
