A warm welcome to a new year of tracking down, learning and using new embroidery stitches. New, means new to me, they might be known to you, or historically old, but they are ones that I have not seen or used before.
So here we go. The first stitch of the year is called Square Knot Drizzle Stitch and is similar to #193 Double Drizzle Stitch, but it is made differently.
I first found it on Annet's blog, Fat Quarter, where she has a really good tutorial. From there I went to Lakshmi Sadalas blog. She tells the story of how she started using macrame knots in hand embroidery. I find it so inspiring to read how others combine one craft with another.
Are you familiar with macrame? My mother made some hanging baskets for plants with macrame technique, and I was fascinated with the different knots. Square Knot Drizzle Stitch is made with one of the most basic knots. Actually it is basically a line of ordinary Reef Knots.
This stitch makes beautiful flowers, and when worked in two colours looks striking.
This is what you need:
Take the two strands of thread to the front, and remove the needle.
Thread the white and black thread on a blunt needle each, this will help you manoeuvring the threads.
Place the milliner needle as close to where the two threads came out, and anchor the tip of it a bit further away to keep it steady. You need the shank of the needle to tie the knots on.
Place the white thread OVER the needle.
Place the black thread OVER the white thread.
Then UNDER the needle,
Then into the loop, first UNDER the white thread, then OVER it.
Pull the two threads,
until you have this single knot.
Now do the same knot on the other side.
Place the white thread OVER the needle.
Place the black thread OVER the white thread.
Then UNDER the needle
Then into the loop, first UNDER the white thread, then OVER it.
Pull the two threads,
until you have this double knot.
Continue in the same way until you have as many knots as you like.
Re-thread the milliner needle.
Remove the tip from the steady keep.
Pull the thread through to the back
and there you have your Square Knot Drizzle Stitch!
On the back the colours are reversed.
Here you can compare the two stitches.
Homework:
Add to the samplers.
7 comments:
I'm going to be very intrigued to see how you apply this one!
That is a complicated stitch but will for sure add texture and interest!
Good for you to brave making a tutorial!
I haven't used that stitch in ages and it is a good stitch to give texture.
Nice step by step directions and I like the finished stitch.
Great to see this stitch here too! Thanks for linking to my tutorial. Did you notice the variations at the end of my tutorial?
That's a nice stitch. Could be a caterpillar.
That is amazing. I used to do macrame as a teenager and a few years I tried Chinese knotting. I was surprised that a lot of the knots were basically the same.
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