Let's start the set of five new stitches with a loopy one - Astrakhan Velvet Stitch, or just Velvet Stitch for short.
It belongs to the Loopy Family together with #93 Rya Stitch and #248 Surrey Stitch.
I recommend two internet sites for instructions: Royal School of Needlework or Deanna Hall West's article in Piecework Magazine, where she shows no fewer than seven different ways to do the stitch!
Or you could follow my photo instructions, which I based on The Embroidery Stitch Bible.
Place a pin below the actual stitch line to wrap the loops around.
Go under the pin while not going through the fabric.
Pull the thread to the left.
The first stitch is complete.
New stitches are placed above the previous stitches.
You need another pin to wrap the new loops around.
These stitches are spaced so there is a lot of fabric between each row.
Here they are right above the previous row filling the fabric.
Keep the loops like this, or cut them open to make a tufted look.
Homework:
Add here.
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