https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/fly-stitch • Posted by Search Press
Little V- or Y-shapes used for decorative edging, as fillers or for spiky petals.
Little V- or Y-shapes used for decorative edging, as fillers or for spiky petals.
Bring the needle up at A and down at B. Don’t pull the thread too tightly to leave a small loop. Bring the needle up at C – where you want your the base of your ‘V’ or bowl of the ‘Y’ – and loop it over the stitch you made between A and B.
Now pull the thread to tighten the ‘V’ or ‘Y’ shape. Take the needle back down to D to make a ‘Y’; for the ‘V’, only take it just below point C, which will then complete the stitch.