Gussy Up: Dictionary of Stitches and Techniques

R1753,33

Description

This dictionary gives you the stitches and techniques for Gussy Up, a crazy patch from scratch project in the Hand Stitched Crazy Patchwork book.  If you would like to order this dictionary along with the full kit, you can do so here.

In it you will find video clips of all the stitches and techniques used in this design.  Along with each video clip on the tuition page there is a downloadable and printable document that gives you step-by-step written instructions with illustrations.

Each video clip is worked as a sample stitch or technique on a shape (usually a circle) or a line.  The downloadable instructions include a template for the shapes, or they set out the length of the line you should draw on your doodle cloth when you experiment with the stitch or technique.  All of the samples are worked with thicker thread and larger beads than those used in the project.  This is for the sake of clarity, so that you will see exactly how each stitch is formed.  When attempting the techniques, particularly those that are challenging, it is advised that you do so on a doodle cloth using the same thread and/or beads, which are mentioned in the short paragraph below each video clip.  Do each one as many times as you like, perhaps changing to finer thread and smaller beads.  When you feel that you understand what you are doing, you can move onto the project.

If you would like to see samples of similar video clips and downloadable instructions, visit our free access pages here or here.  Click on any of the stitches on those pages and you will be taken to a page that, in each instance, is similar to the stitches and techniques in this dictionary (if a bit shorter and more simple).  As it happens, some of them feature in this dictionary because they feature in this project.

Divided into categories and thereafter listed alphabetically, the stitches and techniques in the video dictionary are as under:

Embroidery Stitches

Battlement Couching
Couching
Detached chain stitch with variations
Cretan – embellished
Fly stitch with variations
French & colonial knots with variations
Layered buttonhole stitch filler
Long and short stitch shading
Outline stitch
Outline stitch – compacted
Trellis couching basic
Trellis couching with cross stitch filling
Trellis couching with cross stitch filling
Triangular Trellis
Trellis couching – woven
Twisted Couching
Twisted Long and Short
Up and down buttonhole stitch
Vermicelli couching: single, double and shaded
Wheatear stitch with variations

Bead Embroidery Stitches

Attaching beads to fabric
Bead & beaded fly stitch
Bead couching
Caged Crystals
Linked Daisy Chain Braid

3-Dimensional Beaded Elements (right-handed and left-handed clips)

4-bead flower
6-bead flower
Leaves
Attaching elements to fabric

Needle Lace Techniques

Detached buttonhole stitch
Needle lace stitch no.  2
Needle lace stitch no.  14
Needle lace stitch no.  8
Edging No. 1
Edging No. 2
Edging No. 3
Edging No. 4
Edging No. 5

Needle Weaving Patterns

Checks & stripes no. 1
Checks & stripes no. 2
Checks & stripes no. 9
Texture no. 5
Texture no. 6

Silk Ribbon Embroidery

Working with Silk Ribbon
Silk Ribbon Stitch
French Knot (gathered) Ribbon Rose

Needle Tatting

When you order this dictionary, our website will email you the access document to the private domain where you will find this dictionary.  If you order it with the full kit, your kit will be shipped to you but the access document will still arrive by email.  This is because you will need to click on the link provided in the document which will take you to the tuition page.  Which you can do manually but, when you get there, you will be asked for a password and that’s not so easy to type in.  I’ve had lots of fun making up the passwords and you will need to copy and paste them into the little box that asks for the password.  It will be all but impossible to do it any other way.

You will also receive a templates document.  All of the templates are the same shape and size as those used in the video demonstration so that if you choose to, you can work identical samples.

The intention of this video dictionary is to provide you with as much instruction as is possible, without physically being in the same room as you and teaching you in person.