Satin Stitch

Satin Stitch for Technique Tuesday - How to

Posted by MischievousRaven

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Showing how to do a simple satin stitch.

I learnt how to do this by my Textiles Tutor in college, 2 years ago. If you are anything like me and are not a very good sewer by hand, this tutorial will even get you stitching

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You Will Need (6 things)

  • Long headed Sewing Needle
  • Any colour Embroidery Thread
  • Cotton Material
  • Small Embroidery Hoop
  • Scissors
  • Pencil

Steps (9 steps, 60 minutes)

  1. 1

    Gather all your materials.

  2. 2

    Put your material between the 2 hoops and tighten. To start with (for practise), draw a box with the pencil on your tightened material.

  3. 3

    Thread your embroidery thread through the needle so its doubled up and tie a knot at the end. Now some people don't double it and tie the ends, but if your anything like me you find it starts to unravel.

    To start stitching, I start at the top corner on your pencil line.

  4. 4

    Then sew on the bottom corner on the line. Come back to the top and insert your needle as close to where u first started and then sew down to as close as you can to the bottom of the stitch.

  5. 5

    Keep going until your getting close to finishing your thread. Should look something like this.

  6. 6

    When you have come to the end of your thread, turn over to the back and tie a knot. repeat previous steps till you reach the end of your penciled line.

  7. 7

    Tie off on the back and voila, you have satin stitched

  8. 8

    If your feeling a bit adventurous and want to do something other than a box, draw your design and do a running stitch on the penciled line.

  9. 9

    And satin stitch it.