Sunday 16 July 2023

Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 258: Half Herringbone Stitch

A good way to expand your collection of stitches is to cut a well-known stitch in half! Guess what happens when you divide the Herringbone Stitch - you get Half Herringbone Stitch. 

Here is a YouTube video from Arts&Embroidery:


and this is my photo tutorial:

I stitched on Aida fabric whose holes will show you clearly where

the needle goes in and out. 

There are only two movements:  down diagonally,


or horizontally from right to left.





Anchor at the end of the line.


You can easily vary how high or how crammed the stitches are.


Homework:
These three samplers are awaiting 1/2 Herringbones!











5 comments:

Anonymous said...

You come up with many interesting stitches that I didn't know about!
Pamela

Rachel said...

It looks like a little striding character, doesn't it!

Lyn Warner said...

This pretty stitch reminded me a bit of open Cretan stitch.

Toki said...

It's a stitch that changes the impression considerably by widening the stitching interval or making it dense.

Angela said...

Kind of looks like the fly stitch overlapped.