About the Closed Feather Stitch
Closed Feather Stitch brings the ‘V’s of the Feather Stitch together giving it a ladder-like look. It can be used as a decorative stitch with embellishments.
How to do the Closed Feather Stitch
I will work between two stitch lines A and B.
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| Fig 1: Begin by bringing out the needle through the stitch line A. Then, take it through 2 and bring it out from 3,both points which lie on stitch line B. Note that 1 positions diagonally to 2 and 3. |
Fig 2: Now, take the needle in through 1 and bring it out through a point which lies just below it on the same stitch line. |
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| Fig 3: Continue this process. A finished portion of this stitch should look like this. |
Other Stitches from the Feather Stitch Family
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I am also having a hard time telling the difference between this stitch and the double chain stitch. Could you help gomathy and I with this?
Dear Christina,
Both these stitches are the same!
It is just one of the rare stitches that I was forced to duplicate. Some stitches has technical elements from two or more families making it slightly difficult for me to place them into one single family. While this stitch follows the loop method of the chain stitch family, it also has a strong feather stitch technique in it. Maybe because chain stitch and feather stitch are distant cousins themselves! So, I ended up with this stitch in both the families. 🙂
Hair mam,
I have one doubt in the stitch same as double chain stitch or not
Dear Gomathy,
Both the stitches are same.
Please refer to the answer I gave to Chris.
Thanks. 🙂
This is a great site! I loved it 🙂
Hi, Sarah. I used the closed feather stitch for this girly-doll named Catalina.
Dear Maria,
The stitch looks neat and beautiful. 🙂
Thank you so much for the individual steps. I couldn’t figure it out from Sharon’s site, and this helped.
Dear Susan,
We are glad that you were able to learn easily from our page. 🙂
hi Sarah
you web site is extremely brilliant!!!
I came across your website accidentaly when a searching for some Kutch patterns…and Im so impressed the very first time itself.
Your Kasuti lessons are really great..thanks a lot
Can you pls publish some works on kutch also.
Thanks
Dear Archana,
Thanks for the interest shown. 🙂
I will be publishign some tutorial on kutch work, but since I am tied up with some other projects at the moment, it might take some time.
Love your page! My grandmother showed me how to do embroidery when I was young..(I am 63) I have wanted to get back into it and your page is going to be a great help. Thanks..
Dear Pat,
We are happy to read your comment and to know that you found this tutorial good to revive your interests in embroidery. 🙂