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Download Stitches by Penelope Thank you for downloading this pdf file from Knitting-and.com! Your visits have helped keep Knitting-and.com online, providing free crafts and recipes since 1996. There are hundreds of free patterns and crafts available and more added all the time! Note: The pink watermark on the following pages will not show if you print this file. https://www.knitting-and.com "pAACTl~E makes perfect" is especially a~t with ' rega~d to being about the most widely used. This should have a screw embroidery. If you are a complete novice have patience on the outer ring with which to adjust it. To mount or and do not expect wonderful results with your first " dress" this frame lay the inner ring flat on a table. Over attempt. Do not be too ambitious but to begin with choose it place the material to be embroidered, then a piece of the more simple stitches and types of work. Satin stitch and tissue paper with finally the outer ring, pressing it down over long and short stitch look quite easy but they above any need the whole and tightening the screw when in position. Cut to be practised. There are many more stitches in existence away the paper in the centre where you are going to work. than have been dealt with in this book but they are only The remaining paper will protect the edges. variations of the same thing and the ones that you are most The four piece rectangular slate frame can vary in detail but likely to need with some lesser known ones are all illustrated the principle of them all is the same. There are two lengths and described. They have been put in alphabetical order for of wood with tapes attached to which the top and bottom of convenient reference and there is a complete index on page 15 work are sewn and two side bars to which the sides of the A number of stitches are known by more than one name work are laced. A very good frame of a similar type to this and some of these have been included. Several full size can be Improvised either with four pieces of wood nailed at illustrations of worked examples have also been given to the corners or a picture frame. Stretch the work in the centre show just how certain types of embroidery actually appear as shown in diagram I, using fine string or strong thread for as It Is not always possible to explain this in a diagram. the purpose. Should the edges of the material be inclined Equip yourself with proper tools before you begin. Some to fray make a narrow turning all round and take the string of these may be hard to obtain in these days of short supply through the double thickness. Binding the edges with tape but you should be able to get hold of the bare necessities. is another way of securing them. Make sure the "pull" is even all round and the threads of the material are not NEEDLES. Good makes of needles are available. The eye dragged at an angle. Balance the frame against a table or must be large enough to take the thread easily, and it the back of a chair to use. should be possible to pull the needle and thread through the work without undue force. Discard bent needles or at MATERIALS. There are various fine linen and cotton least only keep them for tacking ; they make stitches materials available. Most women have scraps of material irregular. With Clark's Anchor Stranded thread use the tucked away in a bit box or rag bag which can be put to different sizes as given in the table at the foot of this page. good use as traycloths, small pictures, samplers and collars, Crewel Needles are sharp with a long eye for ordinary etc. Do not be afraid of allying one colour of material to embroidery and Tapestry Needles are blunt for work on another in panelled, striped or patchwork effects, and use canvas or for stitches counted over the threads of the ground up the good parts of worn table linen and bed linen in this fabric. way. Join the pieces together with insertion stitches as shown on page 8. THIMBLE. Not every one finds it necessary to use a For blackwork fillings, etc., it must be possible to count thimble but if you do, see that it has no rough edges to catch the threads of the material so of course it should be evenly in the thread. woven. Canvases for tapestry work can be either single or double SCISSORS. These must be sharp particularly at the point thread, that is the crossing threads forming the mesh may and they should be small. Most households have an odd pair be grouped in pairs. Whichever it is the stitches must which just need sharpening and the rivet tightening to make entirely cover the background. them efficient. DESIGNS. The modern embroideress has the advantage THREAD. Embroidery threads may be scarce so the good over her sisters of earlier times by having designs ready needlewoman never wastes a single strand and keeps her made for her. Traced linens and transfers can be obtained skeins tidily in a box or between the folds of a length of from most good shops selling needlework requisites. Do not paper. Clark's Anchor Stranded Cotton is the most forget that a blue transfer should be used on light material adaptable of threads as varying numbers of strands can be and a yellow one on black, navy, nigger brown and similar used in the needle to obtain different effects. Ordinary shades. Yellow can also be used for white and dainty sewing cottons such as Coats' 6 Cord No. 40 and Super materials on which you do not want too heavy an outline. Sheen No. 40 can be used in some instances for fine outline Sometimes a pale blue shade of transfer is obtainable for effects and for hemstitching and other drawn thread and purposes of this kind. When using a transfer on a woolly drawn fabric stitches. Sewing cotton can also be used for or rough surface never select a design with fine detail. the sewing of quilted designs. Previously press the material, have the iron fairly hot and EMBROIDERY FRAMES. An embroidery frame is when the paper adheres run the iron over it until it becomes essential loose; do not force it away and have plenty of extra paper for certain between the iron and the material to prevent scorching. types of work. COMMENCING AND FINISHING. Knots are im­ W hen practical in needlework for obvious reasons, and work working should be commenced by taking one or two running stitches a design and perhaps a back stitch on a part of the design which will incorpor­ be covered by embroidery, or into the back of a portion ating a lot already worked. Finish by working a few stitches into the of solid back of the embroidery and for further security you can f i 11 in gs end with a buttonhole stitch. carried out in long and Strands of Size of Size of s h o r t cotton crewel Tapestry stitch and needle needle https://www.knitting-and.com- Diagram 1 s .a t i n ,. stitch for 6 5 21 instance, the frame ensures against puckering and helps to 3 & 4 6 23 keep stitches regular with an even tension. There are a 2 7 24 number of kinds of frames, the tambour, ring or hoop type 1 8 25 Page Two LGERIAN EYE STITCH dark colour and are worked by the counted thread on suit­ A (Diagram 2) able linens or canvases so they are always geometric. Use Worked by the counted thread and straight stitches cross stitch and satin stitch can also be used as a chequer-pattern filling for Introduced worked by the counted thread. large conventional forms or as a background effect. The complete RAID EDGING stitch covers form threads (in both B STITCH directions) of the ground material, (Diagram 5) canvas or linen. Bring the needle Prepare the edge to be out in the centre, work two stitches embroidered. Place into the corner, two into the centre this away from the of the side, continuing until t he worker and bring the square is complete and al ways needle out o n the right bringing the needle up in the centre Diagram 2 hand side. Twist the to form a hole. needle round the ACK STITCH thread and with the B (D iagram 3) loop on the needle pass Diagram 5 it under the edge, pull Work from right to through and away from the worker in order to tighten the left . Bring the knot right o n the edge. Small even loops should be needle and thread formed between the knots. up th rough the material and insert the needle a little ULLION KNOT behind this point. B (Diagram 6) Bring it out again With the needle pulled the same distance in through to the front take Diagram 3 front. Draw the up a piece of material o n thread through, and t he needle the length of insert the needle at the point where it first came up. requi red knot bringing Continue along the traced line. All stitches must be of the point out where the equal length. thread first came through BACK STITCH-DOUBLE. (Diagram 4) (A). Wind the thread several times round the needle (B), place left Also named Close Herringbone Stitch.
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