Sunday 5 March 2023

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 244: French Cretan Stitch

Cretan Stitch, in its simple version, is one of the basic hand embroidery stitches. Look at these pictures and I am sure you recognise the Cretan Stitch.

The needle goes up and down alternatively.




The stitch we are going to learn today is a version of this basic stitch, made quite complicated. You have to pay attention and concentrate - at least till you have got into the rhythm. 

At Sarah's Hand Embroidery Tutorials, I found French Cretan Stitch. It is an unusual-looking stitch, wouldn't you say?


To sum it up, it's a combination of two Cretan Stitch up-stitches followed by a short and a long vertical Buttonhole Stitch above them!

Work it like this:













With wider spacing, you get an 'airier' look.


Homework:

Add here.




4 comments:

Toki said...

It looks like a cart in a supermarket.
It's a very cute stitch.😆

Rachel said...

Well now, that's a new one! It looks like a whole series of column-heads!

carorose said...

The French version looks like a computer symbol. There has to be a use for that!

Tanya said...

That's a really interesting stitch. It looks like the top of some Grecian columns.