Embroidery Video Tutorial: Raised Chain Stitch Band
Finally, another video tutorial! This is a raised chain stitch, worked down a line of straight stitch bars to form a raised chain stitch band.
This is a composite stitch. There are two embroidery stitches here put together to make the raised chain: the simple straight stitch which forms the bars on which you stitch the chain stitch.
If you wanted to use this stitch as a filling, you would work wider bars (straight stitches) across the area you want to fill and then work multiple lines of chain stitches to fill up the shape.
It's a neat stitch, with good texture and a bit dimensional since it's raised. I'm working it from top to bottom here, but you can work it from right to left (right handed stitchers) or left to right (left handed stitches), or from bottom to top, and along curves.
There's a close-up photo of the stitch, which I worked in two colors so that it would be easier to see. You can work it in a single color, or in two shades of the same color, for things like vines and stems and so forth.
I must apologize for the crackly sound in the video! I'm going to discover what I can do to rectify that (perhaps a new mic) and, when time allows, rework the sound on these. But in the meantime, here's the video:
For more hand-embroidery videos, visit my Video Library of Stitches, where you'll find some 47 videos.
This is a composite stitch. There are two embroidery stitches here put together to make the raised chain: the simple straight stitch which forms the bars on which you stitch the chain stitch.
If you wanted to use this stitch as a filling, you would work wider bars (straight stitches) across the area you want to fill and then work multiple lines of chain stitches to fill up the shape.
It's a neat stitch, with good texture and a bit dimensional since it's raised. I'm working it from top to bottom here, but you can work it from right to left (right handed stitchers) or left to right (left handed stitches), or from bottom to top, and along curves.
There's a close-up photo of the stitch, which I worked in two colors so that it would be easier to see. You can work it in a single color, or in two shades of the same color, for things like vines and stems and so forth.
I must apologize for the crackly sound in the video! I'm going to discover what I can do to rectify that (perhaps a new mic) and, when time allows, rework the sound on these. But in the meantime, here's the video:
For more hand-embroidery videos, visit my Video Library of Stitches, where you'll find some 47 videos.
Labels: beginner embroidery, Hand embroidery stitches, video tutorials
Posted By: Mary Corbet on Monday, April 07, 2008
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2 Comments:
oooo... I can see myself using that one in my Sampler. They did chain stitch in Elizabethan times so I'm going to assume they did all the variations as well.
Very nice work on that raised chain band video. I worked with that stitch earlier in the year and love its texture.
Elizabeth
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