Doesn't this little red stitch make a nice strawberry seed?
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This is the fly stitch! I had posted a picture of my strawberry tea towel both here on the blog and on my
Flickr stream. I described how I had "made up" a stitch to use for the strawberry seeds. Yesterday, I got a sweet note from
My1stBambina telling me that she thought the stitch looked like the fly stitch. I looked the stitch up in 100 Stitches and she was right! So I decided to make the fly stitch the latest stitch on the
100 Stitches list. Thank you My1stBambina! For the how-to pictures, I am using six strands of dmc #907 floss and a #24 chenille needle. I am stitching on 100% cotton quilting weight fabric.
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According to 100 Stitches, this stitch may be worked singly or in horizontal or vertical rows. I am just demonstrating single stitches. First, come up through your fabric for the top left of the stitch
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Now take your needle back down through the fabric a little to the right of where your needle first emerged:
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Pull the floss partially through
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Now bring your needle up through the fabric below and in the center, making sure the floss is under the needle:
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Pull all the way through light and loose,
not tight - this will form the stitch.
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Now put your needle back down through the fabric directly under the stitch to anchor it in place.
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Now you are free to move to another area and make another fly stitch!