About the Darning Stitch
The Darning Stitch is about making rows of straight Running Stitches near each other. The darning technique mends torn clothes, especially socks, and looks like a woven patch. A fabric is made of weft and warp yarn. A weft is a yarn that runs vertically, while a warp is the one that runs horizontally. They interlock with each other to form the fabric. While mending torn fabric, the Darning Stitch is used to ‘rebuild’ the weft and warp of the worn-out area.
How to do the Darning Stitch
You need to know the Running Stitch to do a darning stitch.
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| Fig 1: Do a row of Running Stitch, starting from A and ending at B. Then, turn around and begin the second row of Running Stitches from C to end at D. Keep this process of stitching rows of running stitches back and forth. Note that each row is ‘stepped’ to get a brick-like formation. You can turn a few rows of Darning stitch into a base for beautiful patterns like we did in Parallel Running Stitch and Stepped Running Stitch. |
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Weft also called filling runs horizontally. Warp yarn in a woven fabric runs vertically and gives it the strength
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I want to do a Phulkari embroidery piece, like in the picture. Phulkari embroidery like this supposedly uses long and short darning stitches, but I cannot figure out how it uses darning stitches. Help please 🙂
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