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About Me
- janet
- Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States
- I'm a freelance graphic designer with a home-based business crafting pillows and home accessories from vintage materials. I also resell some of the vintage treasures I find on my flea market trips, so look for buttons, trims, aprons, sewing patterns, accessories, cute baby things, and linens on my web site and Etsy shop.
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Stitch School
Stitch School has moved to its new home! You'll find all the same posts you've read and loved here plus I'll be adding new stitches and other embroidery-related information. See you there!
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17 comments:
Thank you so much for showing these stitches. I like the idea of a weekly little stitching tutorial and look forward to this series.
Janet, Thank you so much for your online tutorial. I always admire your stitching, and here we get a chance to have an upclose look at the master at work.
Cathy.
thank you for showing and explaining the difference between the two(Redwork)stitches - I prefer to use the stem stitch (thread below the needle) for my Redwork pieces and change to outline stitches when I have to embroidery (tiny)curves....Looking forward to reading about french knots etc.
How wonderful! Thank you for posting this tutorial! I've been wanting to venture into the world of embroidery and this will help tremendously!
Thank you so much for sharing and teaching us these wonderful stitches. I look forward to "class" next week! :)
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If you can manage a tutorial that finally teaches me how to do french knots without getting so cross I throw my embroidery across the room it would be amazing!
Thank you very much for sharing your stitch skills. Your stitching is so even & perfect. I just purchased the "Sublime Stitching" book today & I'm excited to start on my first project. I will refer to your tutorials for help & inspiration!
Thank you so much for this great tutorial! I'm excited to hear you'll be doing more of these! I linked over from Montessori by Hand and adore your blog! Many blessings and thanks again, so much!
I found your blog while doing a web search for stem stitch.
The difference between stem stitch and outline stitch is apparent when you use either an S- or a Z-twist thread. If you're using DMC (or similar) cotton floss, notice when doing stem stitch that the thread begins to split (come unwound). When doing outline stitch, the thread winds up tighter.
To get nice curves, you simply have to make tinier stitches. It doesn't have to do with which stitch you use (stem or outline). Tinier stitches may mean that you only pick up two threads of the ground.
Hope this helps to clarify some issues.
Thank you thank you thank you! I haven't done any needlework since the 1950s! ... so starting from scratch.--Pilar
Thank you for teaching me the steps for the outline stitch.I was having trouble at first but then once I read your instructions I knew what to do!
This is such a great tutorial series! I am a complete novice (just decided to start learning tonight!) and this is just the starting place I needed. Thanks!
It's been so many years since my mom showed these to me, and now she's gone. I thought I'd never remember, and you've helped so much. What an easy to understand tutorial! Thanks a lot!
Just Beautiful!
Daughter and I recently joined a Needlework group and have been having a great time learning cross-stitching. The problem is we'll be gone on vacation when basic embroidery is introduced.
Guess what? I found You!! Now I can print out your lovely instructions and pictures and we can keep learning with everyone else.
Thank you for taking the time to put all of this together. All of your hard work/care/stitching love is very much appreciated!
I am searching for instructions on a double stem stitch. Can you help?
Just so you know, your post just keeps on giving! I needed clear and illustrated descriptions. And finallly after many, many clicks, I arrived here. Thanks!
Thank you so much! I know this is an really old blog entry, but it's been very helpful to see the two versions together.
I was searching for the difference between stem and outline before I begin working on some Redwork projects for Christmas :) I'll go with stem stitch for them yay!
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