The feather stitch is a Great Stitch for creating vines and branches – anywhere you want something kind of twiggy and vine-like, the feather stitch will be of good use! It makes great “spray” backgrounds for floral embroidery, for example.
You can use the feather stitch for fantastic underwater embroidery scenes, too – think branchy coral! Feather stitch works well as a seam treatment in crazy quilting as well.
Feather stitch takes curves well. Just keep the center of the stitch on the design line, and you’ll not have any problem adapting the stitch to curved and wavy lines.
Here’s the video. I hope you enjoy it!
If you’re looking for other hand embroidery stitch tutorials, feel free to visit my collection of embroidery stitch videos here on Needle ‘n Thread!
Great videos! I am an embroidery newbie going to be making my first crazy quilt. I’ve done about a dozen or so other quilts but never a cq. Your videos will help a great deal when I get to that point. Thank you so much for posting them.
Hi
Thankyou so much for the demonstration.
I have Dillmonte’s encyclopadia, and I love her designs – and a few more basic books – but I was just going nuts last night trying to figure out the feather stitch …..
Megan, Australia
what??????!!!!!!!!!!
I need picz!!
The video is good but next time pls. put picz!
by the way thank you!
Wonderful! Thank you so much!
wow this very helpful for bigginers like me but i wanted to download them and try them again at while paying the tutorial video can you help me how can i save them.
Hi, Rahel –
Sorry that the videos aren’t downloadable. If you have an iPod, you can actually download them from Google, I believe, but they aren’t downloadable to the computer.
Sorry about that!
Best,
Mary
Hi,
I'm new at embroidery and your videos have been extremely helpful. I'm not to good with diagrams so I was extremly grateful to find your site. I think of all of the stitches I've tried so far this one is my favorite.
I am working on a pillow and must go around corners. Is there a video on how to turn corners with the feather stitch?
Hi, Consie – I’m afraid I don’t have a video on turning corners with feather stitch. It might be a good one to add to the list, though! Thanks! ~MC
Thankyou so much for the videos.They are very helpful for beginners like me….
hello madam
u really had a great talent.. thank u so much for the video..
thank you so much!!!!
helped a lot
just started stitching and the video was great
I’ve been trying to get this stitch down from looking at various pictures and images…. Your video saved me!
Thank you so very much for this wonderful tutorial. I have shied away from this stitch for years. I couldn’t figure it out in my mind. It makes sense now!!!
Blessings,
Shelley
hahahah!!.. This is soooo. HELPFUL!
ayiah!.. Now my worries is gone. thanks. I can pass my project now.
I am edging a receiving blanket for my grand-daughter with the feather stitch but don’t know how to go around a corner to make it look neat.
Great Videos! My D.T teacher shows them in our school, we are doing beanbags and we are using applique and embroidery.