The latest stitch on my 100 Stitches list is the Whipped Fly Stitch.
This easy stitch is started by forming a Fly Stitch. You can see my Fly Stitch tutorial here. Then, the Fly Stitch is whipped {usually in a different color}. I am going to use these two greens in perle cotton to form my stitch. The dark green is DMC 3347 and the light green is DMC 164:
The first step is to form a vertical line of Fly Stitches:
Now the line of Fly Stitches can be whipped with the second color. To start, I brought the needle up through the fabric inside the first Fly Stitch:
I pulled the floss all the way through and then wove it
over the diagonal arm of the Fly Stitch and under the vertical anchoring arm:
I continued with the next Fly Stitch. Notice that the needle is not going back into the fabric, it is just sliding over and under the arms of the Fly Stitches:
At the bottom of the line, I took the needle back down through the fabric and secured the floss on the underside:
I learned this beautiful stitch from the book Embroidery Stitches by Mary Webb.
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