This stitch is useful, especially if you want to fill broad stems. The weaves come out beautifully making it an interesting stitch to do, especially with threads like Perle cotton or silk. The curves take on easily, but not too sharp curves.
I will work between two parallel stitch lines.
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| Fig 1: Bring the needle out from A, go in through B and out through C, as shown. Points A and B are diagonal to each other, while B and C are at the same level. | Fig 2: Now, we do a diagonal stitch upwards. So,go in through D and come out through E. Note that E lies at a point between A and B, and at the same level as D. |
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| Fig 3: Now, we continue with doing diagonal stitches between the stitch lines, each one parallel to the earlier ones. So, take the needle in through F and out through G, as shown. E-F is parallel to A-B. | Fig 4: Then, we do an upward diagonal stitch G-B, taking out the needle through C. So, from now on, we revisit earlier stitch points when working upward diagonal stitches. |
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| Fig 5: Follow this technique making upward and downward diagonal stitches woven into each other. | Fig 6: The final effect would be like this. You can space them out or even close them in to suit your convenience. |
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Hello Sarah,
I have no words to praise u. Ur tutorials r jst awesome. They r amazing.
Thank u soooooo… much.
God bless u & ur family.
Very nice stitch. Cd use as a border along with other stitches. Thanks Sarah.
thankyou so much for your reply sarah .may god bless you and your family.
Hi, Sarah. I just found that the basket stitch is not listed in the stitch dictionary. 😉
Hi Maria. Yes, you are right. I usually update the picture and stitch dictionary in bulk. Next time when I update both, I will add whatever I haven’t. 🙂
hai sarah i like to learn long and short stich please teach me.
sarah i have no words to praise you.you are good teacher.thankyou .
hai sarah my name is viji .i am from tamilnadu .i love embrodery .i like this site.thankyou so much i learnt many stiches from this site great work. i like to learn kutch work please try to teach me sarah.thankyou viji
sarah why you dint give me any reply to my comments .you dont like me .
Hi viji, we have a full time family with 2 kids! so tutorials are prepared as per convenience of sarah, when she has time and energy. If you have a question about a particular stitch or embroidery, she might reply; but to work out requests for new stitches takes time!
Hi Sarah madam,
I feel very thankful to u for this great work.recently i have joined embroidery class and got cheated by a lady…she taught me only twelve basic stitches and told this is enough to make designs..But thanks to her coz it stimulates me to know more about this through your site..I am daily learning and trying stitches from Ur site…plz give some patterns for each stitch, so that it will be helpful to know which stitch is used for which designs…..
regards…
Sweety….
Your website is fabulous!!!
Do you have any ideas or past posts on how to simulate barbed wire with embroidery stitches?
Thoughts?
Thanks,
turnermom1
Hi tturnermom1,
Check the ‘ blanket stitch’ family for stitches that gives the barbed wire effect.
You can also check https://www.embroidery.rocksea.org/reference/picture-dictionary/
Hope this helps. 🙂
Dear Sarah,
I just discovered this site, and I’m so happy that I did. It is wonderfully organized, and your tutorials are very clearly illustrated and easy to follow.
Thank you for so generously sharing your knowledge and talent.
What a wonderful website! This is really amazing….thank you for sharing with others!
Hello, thank you for this great web site . I have learned so much and still learning. I am writing to you because I am trying to embroidery a apron for my wife’s birthday. i would like to put wisteria on it. It is her favorite flower and purple is her favorite color. do you have any good simple ideas to help me.
I would truly appreciate any help. Thank you. Thank you again for great web site.
Sincerely,
Duke
Hi Duke,
It is not usual that I get requests from men to give them ideas on stitching! Honestly, it is encouraging and appreciative.
To make a wisteria, and a simple one, I can suggest you use the oyster stitch in various sizes to make the little purple flowers. It will give a slight embossed feeling, but at the same time keep it simple for an apron. Try using stem stitch for the stems and Lazy daisy for the leaves.
Hope this helps. Warm birthday wishes to your wife. 🙂
P.S. Sorry for not being able to reply sooner. I was on a long christmas vacation with family sans the laptop or internet.
You are the greatest!! Thank you, this will help out alot. Maybe I will post it when I am finished.
Thank a lot!
Sincerely,
Duke
Hi,
I really appreciate your website. Recently I’ve been doing a school project on embroidery, and all your information about stitches has been extremely helpful. It’s really hard to find good websites like these, and I’m just happy your’s exists. 🙂 I was wondering if you could show how to do a plaited braid stitch, because it is one of the stitches necessary for my school project, and all the explanations on the web are complicated and not so great.
Thanks a lot 🙂
I’m sure you do so I have to ask, do you have a book with these stitches or a video? If so where? Your site has been sew helpful to this beginner.
Thank you,
Barbie
Dear Barbie,
I have not started doing any video tutorials yet. But, I am working on an e-book. The e-book can be printed out for use. It might take a little more time before I publigh it online, but it will be announced.
Thank you so much its so helpfull your web site for me its so usefull madam do you have any cd to learn
I just found your website. I love it! Im starting to do embroidery and I can’t say, thank enough for the site.
Thank you!!!! 😀
Thank you Sarah for sending new stitch.I always look farward to it as I myself do a lot of embroidery.I wil use this stitch definetly.
Chhaya Topre.