Time for another 100 Stitches Plus post. I have just learned to do the Reversed Fly Stitch.
Isn't this a beautiful stitch? This is used as either a line or a filling stitch.
For my demonstration, I am using perle cotton floss - this is DMC Color Variations no. 4022.
The first step is to form a regular Fly Stitch. Come up through the fabric:
pull all the way through:
go back into the fabric a little to the right of where your needle first emerged:
Start pulling the floss through and you can see a loop forming:
Now before pulling all the way through, come back up through the fabric - notice the needle is coming up between and a bit below the spots where the floss first emerged and first went back into the fabric. Also, the needle will pass over the floss loop as you pull:
When you have pulled all the way through, go back into the fabric and this will complete the Fly Stitch:
Now for the reversed part of the Reversed Fly Stitch! Start by coming up through the fabric below your first Fly Stitch:
Pull all the way through and go back into the fabric a little to the right of where the floss just emerged:
Start pulling through to form the loop:
and just like before, bring your needle up through the fabric as the loop is forming. Notice that the needle is coming up above the first Fly Stitch:
Pull all the way through:
and go back into the fabric to complete the stitch:
Done! This stitch looks really beautiful when done in columns or rows:
I did a column of three - I am going to practice with different spacing and trying this in rows.
Here is a view of the underside of this stitch:
I learned this stitch from the book Embroidery Stitches by Mary Webb.
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