About the Bonnet Stitch
This stitch is very decorative and easy to do. The Bonnet Stitch is worked from right to left. I will work between two straight parallel lines to show this stitch.
How to do the Bonnet Stitch
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| Fig 1: Start by bringing out the needle from point A in the lower stitch line. Then, Take the needle in through B and out through C, both slightly angled from A, as shown. | Fig 2: Now, take the needle from under the the stitch A-B, without plucking the fabric beneath, as shown. |
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| Fig 3: Pull out the needle and see a twisted effect happening. Next, put the needle in through A and out through D, a point directly below C. Loop the thread under the needle and pull out the needle. | Fig 4: Begin the next stitch, by taking the needle in through E and out through F. There is a slight gap between C and E. |
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| Fig 5: Observe how the needle goes out of the stitch near D before going in through the fabric at G. Keep on with this procedure. | Fig 6: A finished row looks like this. |
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Sarah has been researching and sharing hand embroidery lessons for over 17 years, making it accessible to everyone around the globe.
wow…. your simply amazing ma’am…. I just love your website… I know basic freestyle hand embroidery… but I can learn more from your website… thank you for sharing your knowledge to us…
hi sarah,
its neha again sorry to say this but the link says”the xml file doesn’t have any style information associated with it ” then its shows some document tree:)
hi neha, the link is for adding it to a feed reader like feedly, feedreader, or even MS Outlook.
i loved it very interesting easy to follow and jssss creative but want some knowledge for zardoshi, stitching bead or other sequences and crochet too and thanx a lot for this site for housewives like us who dont go out for sch tuitions thnx dear
thankyou rocksea
thankyou Radhika
Hi Sarah,
Firstly I would like to congratulate you on creating this treasure trove of embroidery. I absolutely love it and I am going to start doing some basic stitches for practise before getting into designs. I just wanted to know how does one trace designs on to the cloth? Also if we use a pencil to draw on the cloth, will the pencil marks go away after washing? Pls help
Many thanks
Stuti – Mumbai
sorry sarah i don’t know how to upload my embroidery images.
hi vijayalakshmi, just like you uploaded the doc file, you can clikc on the choose file below the comment box, and select the photo of your embroidery, one at a time. That will put a link here in the text box, and then you can press submit. Try once again 🙂
cheers,
File: vi.docx
sarah i hope you like my embroideries
http://i.imgur.com/Xrbn4Zy.jpg
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Ur work is too pretty.loved ur wrk
hai sarah, how r u? this time I want to learn how to fix a small mirror in a piece of cloth using embroidery, could u pls post me the procedure to do that. I have attached an image with this, could u
teach me those.
Dear Padmarekha,
This is a nice piece of work. I do have mirror work lined up. Will take time to post it up here. So, you’ll have to wait.
Hello Sarah, I am pleased to go through your blog site (it’s awesome) and as soon as I got to know that you live in Pune, I would be glad to meet you sometime. Kindly let me know via mail or tell me your mail ID. Have fun!!
Dear Tara,
Good to know you are from Pune too. Of course, we can meet. I suppose this reply comes with my email id. 🙂
hi sarah,
just want to appreciate the effort that you put for each tutorial.also i was wondering if there is any way to subscribe to your posts?
Dear Neha,
You can subscribe to feeds using this link:
https://www.embroidery.rocksea.org/feed/
Hope this helps. 🙂
Dear sarah , Please let me know about the type of cloth and needle you have used.
Hi sarah,
Can you please give me the details of the below materials that i have to buy before i start up with this tutorial?
Please give me the details
1) needles
2) cloth
3)thread
hai sarah,am beginner your website is very helpful to me
Dear madam, I am a fashion designing student. After the class time, I used to watch your site for thorough study, and I find it very useful. I do not find arya work lessons in your site. Will you kindly let me know whether it is available in your site. …..Lathika
I stumbled upon your embroidery on Pinterest. Your tutorials and designs are sensational! Sadly, I noticed a website (http://www.duitang.com/people/mblog/12292610/detail/) that has possibly stolen your material. It has your watermark on their images, however they have written their own over it. I thought I would pass it on to you, just in case. If I am mistaken, I apologize, but I imagine you put so much work into this, I would have hated to not to say something.
XO,
Steph
Dear Steph,
Thanks for letting us know. 🙂 We appreciate that you understand the hard work behind each picture here. It is difficult to see how others just lift your content and use it without any permission or credits. The only effort they might put in is to crop out the copy right watermark! And we are aware of many who have done it.
In this case, it is okay. They have mentioned us, and left the copyright on… bearable. 🙂
Ich bin begeistert von ihrer Webseite .So viele verschiedene Stiche die man so leicht lernen kann ,weil du mit so vielen Bilder alles sehr gut dokumentierst .Danke für alles dass du mit uns teilst.
Viele liebe Grüße Regina
I have a 70 year old baptismal dress which was made by my great grandmother,grandmother and mother. I am looking for someone to embroider 8 -10 names on the dress. Everyone in my family who did embroidery has now passed . I live in the Orlando Fl area . Can you help me out?
Dear Kathleen,
It is great to know that a dress that old is kept well. 🙂
Sadly, I live in India, and don’t know of any one who can embroider at your location. I can only suggest that you visit some embroidery shops that can help you with it, or someone who can do it well. Best wishes.
I have a 70 year old baptismal dress which was made by my great grandmother,grandmother and mother. I am looking for someone to embroider 8 10 names on the dress. everyone in my family who did embroidery has now passed . I live in the Orlando Fl Fl area . Can you help me out?
Hi madam,
It’s very nice
I love your website – very useful information! Thank you!
Paula
Hi dear,
Dis site is very interesting. same way can u pls refer me of any sites dat u kno wer i can get ez tutorials lyks urs on tailoring..
Dear Sarah,
Very nice to see your works and efforts. Is it possible to meet you when I come to Bangalore. I need some guidance in teaching the village girls, to help them to make some living out of embroidery. My phone no. Is 09790901745. I will be very happy to get in touch you. All the best!
Dear Revathi,
I do not live in Bangalore, but in Pune. If you ever visit Pune, let me know and we can talk about your project.
Hello Sarah, I am pleased to go though your blog (its awesome) and the moment I read that you live in Pune (as you replied to one of the comment), I would really like to catch up with you. Kindly let me know via mail or tell me your mail ID. Have fun!!
Hi Sarah,
I have seen your embroidery designs and its awesome. I want to learn embroidery and want to make it my profession. Is there any scope if i make this as my profession.
And can you please let me know that is there any institution that teaches it..
If you desire to increase your experience just keep visiting this website and be updated with the newest
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Sarah, yet another beautiful tutorial, have been coming here very often and really appreciate how you make each of the stitches so simple. Sarah would like to know one thing, what would be like the best fabric to choose to do an embroidery work in cotton.
your site is excellent,thank you so much for sharing,
kisses from greece,evi
I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate all of the tutorials. I just finished my first little embroidery hoop and the only reason I was able to do it was because of these tutorials.
Thank you so much!
Emily
aoa.how r u?thx 4 nice work bt can u help m how i can made it?
Dear Emily,
We are working on an E book with illustrated tutorials of about 200 and more stitches. We want to include samples of some of our readers. Since your stitches and picture are really neat and good, I would like to ask if we can consider to include the one you uploaded in our website. Due credits will be given.
If you are okay with it, you can try to send some more of your stitch samples in high resolution.
Thanks in advance.
Sarah
Thank u sarah
your website’s helped my so much, thank you!
Hi sarah,
am a beginner in embroidery.today just gone through ur site and seems very interesting.seems i can learn new stiches from u. thanks for sharing all these.
Hi Sarah
I was told about The Napkin Project in UK, a project embroidering napkins to send to a residential home for people with types of dementia, as the residents often enjoy handling or plucking at the fabric napkins or even using them for other purposes, and this is said to be of benefit to those folk.
I wanted to be a part of this, but have only ever done child’s embroidery or counted cross-stitch as an adult so didn’t really think I could.
However, after discovering your tutorials, I have found this an absolutely fantastic resource that has enabled me to start to embroider a napkin to be included in the finished project.
Thank you so much.
Hai sarah. Please mention about thread used
Dear Suhi,
I have used the normal embroidery floss (anchor brand), all six strands.
Hai sarah. Please mention about thread
Hi Sarah,
I am a beginner in hand embroidery…
you have provided awesome information on this website….
really great and useful to the stitching community…
thank you very much….
Nice website about embroidery informations