Today's tutorial is all about the split stitch. Most commonly used as an outline and filling stitch but split stitch can also be used to work lines or flower stems in your designs. Split stitch creates a textured line which has similarities to stem stitch in it's technique.
Split stitch tutorial
Materials:
· Fabric – cotton or linen fabric works well. I used osnaburg fabric which is 100% seeded cotton, but you can use any spare fabric you already have.
· Stranded embroidery thread
· Needle
· Scissors
Optional:
· Embroidery hoop
Just for your reference, during this tutorial I am using osnaburg 100% cotton seeded fabric, black DMC stranded cotton embroidery thread, a hand embroidery needle and a 5” DMC beechwood embroidery hoop.
1. Thread your needle using stranded embroidery thread. For this tutorial I start by using four strands of DMC stranded embroidery thread. You can choose how many strands of embroidery thread you would like to work with. The number of threads will determine the size of your French knot.
2. Bring your needle through from the back of the fabric to the front at point 1. This is the starting point of your split stitch. Pull your needle all the way through the fabric until the thread is secure on the back of the fabric.
3. Put your needle back into the fabric at point 2.
4. Bring your needle back up in the middle of your first stitch. Your needle should split the thread.
5. Pull the thread all the way through the fabric.
6. To create your next stitch, put your needle back into the fabric at point 3, ensuring it's the same length as your first stitch.
7. Pull your needle and thread all the way through the fabric.
8. Bring your needle back up in the middle of your second stitch. Your needle should split the thread.
9. Pull the needle and thread all the way through the fabric. Continue this process until you reach the end of your split stitch.
10. Once you reach the end of your split stitch, insert your needle into the end of your last split stitch and pull your needle and thread all the way through the fabric.
11. Your split stitch is complete.
Split Stitch Video Tutorial
Happy Stitching!
Hannah x
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