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Sunday 7 April 2019

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 94: Smyrna Stitch

While reading Hokkaido Kudasai, where Pamela showcases her fantastic collection of needle keeps, I was reminded of a nice stitch, on her Bee Pin Keep, the Smyrna Stitch.

Smyrna Stitch is basically made up of a Cross Stitch staggered with an Upright Cross Stitch. Easy to do, yet stylish. Furthermore, it is a nice filling stitch and is popular in Canvas Work.

It also goes under the names of Leviathan Stitch, Double Cross Stitch (although there is another Canvas stitch with this name) and Railway Stitch.
Updated: In French, according to Mattia, it is also called Smyrna Point.

Work it like this:
Make a Cross Stitch over an odd number of holes, here I used five.

Come out in the middle hole on the left side.

 Go across to the right side, middle hole,
and up to the middle of the top line.

Then down in the bottom centre.

 Easy and compact.

Homework:
Aida Sampler
Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart
Canvas Sampler (it's been a long time since I added something here!)



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6 comments:

  1. Pamela7 April 2019 at 14:10

    Great! I like this stitch. I'll look forward to seeing your homework.

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  2. Anonymous7 April 2019 at 18:52

    Ce point porte le même nom en français :
    point de smyrne
    et point de rya la semaine dernière
    Merci et bon dimanche
    Mattia

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  3. Rachel7 April 2019 at 23:37

    It makes a good, textural boss in canvaswork, too...

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  4. FlashinScissors8 April 2019 at 07:20

    Nice stitch, Queenie!
    All your samplers are looking really pretty with lovely colour choices!
    Hugs,
    Barbara xx

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  5. carorose8 April 2019 at 20:05

    A very useful stitch but looks at all those names!

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  6. Janie9 April 2019 at 06:07

    That's a beautiful, useful stitch, yes, with a lot of names too.
    By the way Queenie, have you switched your blog to HTTPS yet? You can see it in the URL.
    It's more secure and there is info and tutorials on how to do it online.
    You can also just figure it out by getting into your blog settings. Easy.
    Just thought you might want to know.
    Janie

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