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.

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.
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.

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This is probably, the first stitch you need to know before learning any other embroidery stitches. It is a simple single stitch done by taking the needle in and then out of the fabric. Most stitches begin by making a single straight stitch. Apart from that, many straight stitches can be combined in various ways to come up with various patterns.

A series of detached straight stitches form the running stitch. So, I have mentioned and shown the running stitch family as a member of the straight stitch family.

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