Herringbone and feather stitch seemed like the obvious choices to decorate the seams. And cretan stitch looked like a good stitch too because it also spans the seam.
Once I started stitching I found two aspects of crazy embroidery that needed quite a bit of thought and attention. Spacing the individual stitches required very careful judgment and exact placing to get the spacing even. Otherwise it looked rather untidy and higgledy piggledy. Along the way I had quite a bit of unpicking to do to make the lines of stitching look fairly neat.
The other aspect that required some thought was how to embellish those lines of stitching. Plain lines of feather stitch or herringbone looked rather uninteresting and needed something extra to liven them up. This is the really fun part of crazy embroidery. I found ideas here and there but it took some time to unearth them.
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| Courtesy Floresita of Feeling Stitchy |
Till next time, happy stitching!
These are interesting observations, Lyn. I’ve tried a little crazy patchwork and really like the idea, especially since you can incorporate left over bits or fabric or reuse items like doilies. Your colours here are gorgeous and observations about stitches really insightful. Thanks for the post.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of using special or favourite fabrics to make up the crazy background and then playing with a variety of different embroidery stitches. It makes a nice change from my usual counted thread.
DeleteLovely color palette! I like crazy embroidery as well mainly because I can use variegated threads without thinking too much.
ReplyDeleteThanks Anita. The patchwork fabric I used in the centre of the block guided my choice of colours and it was lucky coincidence that I had the variegated thread that matched. Using variegated threads is freeing. It adds variety without having to keep choosing and changing thread colours.
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