The up & down buttonhole stitch is a variation on regular buttonhole or blanket stitch. Up & down buttonhole creates a scalloped-looking line of buttonhole stitches, with two stitches tied together and locked down with a loop.
Up & down buttonhole stitch is a fun line stitch to work, and once you get the hang of how the stitch is made, you’ll find that it works up very quickly! In the photo above, you can see two lines of up & down buttonhole stitch – it creates a very pretty band stitch that can be used as an edge or border. The stitch works well around gentle curves and circles, too – play with it, to see what you can do with it! Pretty much anything you can do with a buttonhole stitch, you can do with this stitch.
Here’s the video for the up & down buttonhole stitch.
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Good tute, thanks!
You always surprise us =) Thank you!
PS.You often work with this type of thread and I always forget what it’s called? Please
Hi Mary,
I had patchwork appliqued circles which I embroidered with feather stitich because I though blanket stitch would be too square & rigid. Next time or somewhere else I’ll use this stitch as its scallop effect I like.
Thank you for this.
Desde que descubrí esta pagina sigo los tutoriales para mis trabajos de bordados estoy fascinada. mi herramientas favoritas son las tijeras, para cada trabajo tengo unas la verdad me encanta coleccionar al igual que las agujas. Los bordados son par mi mejor terapia y conducto para las relaciones sociales. Blanca iris Rincon. Duitama Boyacà Colombia.
OI MARY tudo bem ?
AMEI OS SEUS BORDADOS,E TAMBÉM A SUA HISTORIA DE VIDA,sempre sonhei em bordar,mas nunca entrei numa escola de bordados. No momento estou cursando teologia na faculdade ,mas a sua historia me impactou, pois quanto mais eu pego na agulha , mais tenho vontade de criar bordados diferentes,assim como você disse.Que Deus a recompense por este maravilhoso trabalho que vem fazendo, e também por poder proporcionar a outros a possibilidade de aprender através de seus videos. Um abração .
Many years ago I first lay eyes on a Hardanger projects book and a friend bought a one meter square piece of linen. I lived in Israel then and that piece of linen was the best linen I worked on.
Later on, in the States, where I still live now, there was an embroidery store in mid-NJ – long gone now, and they had decent linen. It’s odd that I never found good linen in New York City.
And now we’re selling our home and my house “stagers” just packed my linen somewhere among myriad other boxes, without me knowing where.
Anyway, I truly need to embroider something, or I’ll bust. Maybe a pack of your linen samples would be what I need now. I remember linen being measured by stitches per inch. Can you please let me know the measurements of your samples. Is your linen suited for drawn thread work? Thanks so, so much – drora kemp, North NJ.
Hi, Drora – Thanks for your note! Our linen sample packs are not available just at the moment. We are in the process of preparing some, though, and they will be available within the next week. Within the sample packs, there are some fabrics that are suitable for drawn thread work. In fact, MOST linen can be used for drawn thread – it just depends on how fine you want to go! But yes, each sample pack has at least one or more linen that is good for typical drawn thread work. You’ll be able to read the descriptions of the linens in the sample packs when the new packs are listed in the shop. The samples are 12″ square. There are four different types of fabric in each pack. We will also be selling the same linens by the cut, for those who like any particular linen in the sample pack. So keep an eye out for those – I will announce their availability right here on the blog, once they’re ready and in the shop!