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Saturday, April 7, 2012

Basic Stitches -Blanket Stitch

 Blanket stitch is use:
  • to hold fabric pieces together firmly–sew or repair seams.
  • in place of machine stitching in handmade garments.

Steps 1
●     Tie a knot.
●     Insert the needle into the fabric from the bottom side.
●     Pull the needle + floss through the fabric. 








 


Step 2
●     Insert the needle from the bottom side and out to the top side at point 2
●     Pull the needle + floss through the fabric and leave a small loop ( see photo).
●     Insert the needle through the loop as show in the photo. 
●  Pull the floss all the way.







Step 3
●     At the top side, insert the needle at point 1.
●     Put your needle, loop the floss from behind the needle. See photo.
●     Now, you can pull the needle all the way.
●     Pull this stitch tight so the vertical bar is straight up.







 
Step 4
●     Continue across using Step 3










  Import ! How to do the corner.
 
Step 5
●     Using the same method as Step 3
●     Insert the needle that the 45 deg point (See photo)








 
Step 6
●     Repeat Step 3 till you finish the edge.











 Step 7
 ●     Finish the end by doing a knot at the end.
●     Using the floss, loop 3 loop round the needle.
●     Using your finger, press on to the loops and pull the needle to a thug.
●     Cut off the extra floss.