This interesting looking stitch is the spider web filling stitch.
This is the latest stitch on my 100 Stitches journey.
To demonstrate this stitch, I am using this beautiful pearl cotton floss - it is dmc color variations, #4025:
To set up this stitch, I really recommend using a circle as a guide. I also recommend making a dot in the middle of the circle:
The first step is to come up through the fabric on the upper left hand edge of the circle:
Then go back down into the fabric on the upper right hand edge of the circle:
Take a downward pointing stitch and have the needle come out right on the center dot. Notice that the needle is going to go over the working floss - pull and this will form...
the start of a simple fly stitch:
Go back into the fabric at the center of the bottom edge of the circle:
and pull all the way through:
now come up on the bottom left hand edge of the circle:
and go back into the fabric right on the center dot:
and pull all the way through:
and then come back up on the bottom right hand edge of the circle:
and go back into the fabric on the center dot:
Now you have five "spokes". You are going to weave under and over these spokes with the working floss. To do that, come back up at the center dot:
and just start weaving - go over the first spoke, under the second spoke:
over-under, over-under, around the spokes:
keep going around and around, filling in the circle:
When you are done, just go back into the fabric and secure on the underside to finish the stitch:
Does my stitch look correct? I am just wondering because 100 Stitches didn't show a finished stitch picture.
I like the way this looks, especially with the color variations floss. I think it would make a good stitch for stitching Christmas candy if I get some of this floss in red and white!
Here is the underside of the stitch...you would never know what was going on up on top from this picture!
This stitch is #73 and is in the couching and filling stitches section of 100 Stitches.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
100 Stitches - Spider Web Filling Stitch
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Kim
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9/20/2011
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couching and filling stitches,
spider web filling stitch
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