How to use a long or short stitch
Any solid embroidery is based on the long or short stitch, also called the “tipping Stitch”. It’s one of the oldest types of stitching found in embroidery, passed on for centuries, also known as the satin stitch. It is also the most important one to master and combining them can result in beautiful complex projects.
The long or short stitch regularly alternates a first row’s long and short stitch and follows up close the exact shape of the motif. This type of stitching will give a shaded effect to any embroidery fabric or regular piece of clothing used on. A smooth effect can be achieved by making following rows even in size. Any color can be used. This long and short stitch is perfect to give a smooth and fashionable look to any embroidery piece.
Making it is rather simple. Embroidery hoops are indispensable for a great result in this stitch. You will also need to decide on the pattern to make. A piece of fabric preferably with small halls, needles and color threads according to the chosen pattern are, of course, also needed.
The long or short stitching technique can be used as follows. You start by threading the needle and keeping the fabric tight on the embroidery hoop, without stretching it out too much. Wound the larger hoop with a strip of cloth until it perfectly fits over the smaller one. Use a number 10 needle with a thread color corresponding to the required shade and run it in and out through the fabric. Use a long stitch on the upper side of your chosen pattern, continuing towards the center. Then take the needle up close to the first stitch and take a shorter stitch to the surface, inclined towards the center. You need to continue the alternation of long and short stitches until completing the outline. And, of course, you need to change the thread in the needle with the color that suits the pattern.
Basically, the stitches are used to cover a chosen section of the background. Long or short stitches must mold perfectly on the outline, usually using the short stitch at half the size of the long one.
The first impression will have no sense. The inner margin will be irregular thus seeming to mix with the plain center. Run the thread in and out the underside of your embroidery until the finished embroidery will look almost the same as the upper one.
There are many types of embroidery that use the long or short stitch because of the clean and smooth look it has on the fabric. Although we are used to hearing about stitching from our mothers or grandmothers, we can also try to make it and who knows? Maybe with practice we will learn to master it perfectly and create original new and complex clothing models for ourselves. Practice is the mother of knowledge and adding a little bit of imagination we might even surprise ourselves.
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