Tag: chicken scratch

Bring your needle out from the backside of the fabric at the end of the running stitch. Slip needle under running stitches in a counter clockwise direction. This is done all on top of the fabric and under the running stitch! Make one or two circles with your thread depending on how thick you want […]

You run your needle in and out of the fabric using the edges of the squares as your guide. The common chart symbols are “|” for running top to bottom and “-” running left to right. « Back to Stitches

You’ll be using the fabric blocks like counted cross stitch using the corners and sides of the block being the “holes” in the Aida or linen fabric. Using one of the gingham squares do a regular cross stitch, work another cross stitch going from middle of the sides and top to bottom. The key is […]