Embroidery Stitch Tutorial - Spider Web stitch / How to work Spider Web Stitch?

 Hi all

Hope all are staying safe.  Today I am happy to share with you the stitch tutorial for Spider Web Stitch.  It is an isolated stitch, which works well for flowers and other round shapes. The spokes and the pattern of the stitch resembles the spider web and so the stitch got the name spider web stitch.  The other names for this stitch is whipped wheel, Ribbed spider wheel etc.

Now let us move on to the tutorial. 

For this stitch we are going to work with straight stitch as its foundation.  Work a group of straight stitches that radiates from the centre.  

I have used 8 spokes here to explain the stitch.  The number of spokes can be even or odd.  Bring the needle out through the fabric at outer end of a straight stitch.  

   

Make a straight stitch towards the centre.  Then make another straight stitch in the next spoke, from outer end to centre.

Complete all the straight stitches.  

Now whipping begins.  Bring the needle between two straight stitches close to the centre.   Bring the needle below the straight stitch which is to the left of the needle.

 

Pull the thread below the straight.  Now again whip the same stitch once and bring the needle below the same stitch and the next straight stitch to the left. 

  

Pull the thread through.  You can see the thread is whipped over the first stitch and has come below the next straight stitch.

Now whip the stitch once where the thread is below and bring the needle below the same stitch and next stitch.  Continue in this manner in the anticlockwise direction.  The next picture shows the stitch in halfway.  

 

You can complete whipping the spokes or you can stop it with a small part of the spokes to be shown.  I have completed the stitch by whipping the spokes completely.  Finish the stitch by bring the thread under the whipped threads. 

Finished Spider Web stitch 

 

Hope this tutorial is clear. Click here for other embroidery stitch tutorials.

Tomorrow I will be posting the design for doing practicing this stitch.  Have a happy time with your needle and thread.