padded satin stitch
Posted by sarah on 13 Jan 2010 | Category:
This is satin stitch with a little embossed or dimensional look. This is because we first give the pattern a little padding at the base before doing the satin stitch. I will illustrate this stitch using a leaf pattern.
You need to know any basic straight line stitch like chain stitch, outline stitch , or back stitch, to do the outlining. You also need to know the satin stitch.
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| Fig 1: First, stitch an outline of the pattern to be done. I have used chain stitch to outline, but you can use any straight stitch like the back stitch or the outline stitch. | Fig 2: Once the outline is done, fill the inside of the pattern with straight stitches. You can fill it up with chain stitch too. The idea is to give a padding for the satin stitch that we will be doing, so we need not make this stitch to cover the pattern entirely. | |
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| Fig 3: Once that is done, do the satin stitch to cover the pattern. The needle needs to go in and out of the fabric from outside the chain stitch. | Fig 4: The completed pattern will look like this.  |
