Embroidery feather stitches tutorial

This tutorial for feather stitch gives clear direction on how to do it and also many suggestions on ways to use it in freestyle embroidery projects.

Learn how to stitch the feather stitch, a hand-embroidery decorative stitch which creates a vine or branch looking line. For both cross stitch or embroidery.

How are you enjoying your time without buzzers and beepers in your hands? Mighty relaxing, isn't it? Now maybe you're remembering what it's like to have time for YOU. To refresh. To be tactile. That's what my patterns and stitching tutorials are all about. We all need that time. Time for the next three stitches in the sampler. Cross stitch. Feather stitch. And fly stitch. Now, I haven't used feather stitch in the tree sampler. I was saving that to add as a decorative border at the end of the…

Since all the basic stitches are already covered in the Stitch Library, it is time go over some variations and derivatives! Today, in particular, I would like to speak about some feather stitch variations :) If you forgot how the basic Feather stitch looks like, take a glance at the picture above. And if you need to refresh in your memory how to work it, read this post first: Feather stitch tutorial. By the way, we already talked about some variations before! They are just a bit more…

My second favourite stitch is Feather stitch.The little plant like forms on the left of the sample are reminiscent of block prints from Gujarat and Rajasthan. I particularly like the enmeshed rows of feather stitch at the top right corner which seem to grow organically in all directions. I've begun embroidering a dupatta - two and a half metres long and forty four inches wide, haven't decided or planned the outcome just organically growing feather stitch. Go over to Stitchin Fingers to view…

The Plaited Feather Stitch follows the technique of the Crossed Feather Stitch, with only a slight difference. We pass the needle under the previous row to hold it down, thereby ‘plaiting’ it.