Once on YouTube I saw a beautiful stitch, but the speed of the video was too fast for me to grasp the movements.
There was no name but the stitch looked very familiar, both in the end result and in the way it was executed. I checked my stitch collection and racked my brain, then forgot all about it.
It was not until recently that I found the stitch on Sarah's Hand Embroidery Tutorials. It was the classic Palestrina Stitch, worked in reverse. I checked in Sharon Boggon's 'Creative Stitches for Contemporary Embroidery' for the Palestrina Stitch, as she offers photo instructions for both right- and left-hand stitchers. Here was the Palestrina Stitch flipped over.
So you work today's version of Palestrina from right to left like this:
Your instructions make it look easy.
ReplyDeleteNice looking line of stitches!
ReplyDeleteIt's a pretty stitch, isn't it!
ReplyDeleteI am going to have to try this one.
ReplyDeleteThis is chain-:like stitch with a very cute design.
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