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:
Homework:
Add here.
It looks like a cart in a supermarket.
ReplyDeleteIt's a very cute stitch.😆
Well now, that's a new one! It looks like a whole series of column-heads!
ReplyDeleteThe French version looks like a computer symbol. There has to be a use for that!
ReplyDeleteThat's a really interesting stitch. It looks like the top of some Grecian columns.
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