Zig Zag Chain Stitch - Hand embroidery stitch tutorial

 Hi all

Hope all are doing well and good.  Today I am happy to share with you the tutorial for zig zag chain stitch.  This is similar to chain stitch but worked in a zig zag manner.  

Video tutorial here

In the following link you can see how I have applied this stitch to form a neck line. 

Simple embroidery design

Now let's move on to the tutorial for zig zag chain stitch.

Start with a normal chain stitch but in a slanting manner from bottom to top right. 

Pull through the thread.  A slanting chain stitch is formed.

From inside the chain stitch take another stitch slantingly towards bottom as shown.

Pull through the thread.  Next chain stitch in zig zag manner is formed.

Next stitch should be slantingly from inside the second chain towards the top right.

Continue in this manner along the stitch line and anchor the thread outside the last chain.  

A line of zig zag chain stitch

Hope this tutorial is useful.  Will be back with another stitch tutorial soon.  Till then, have a nice day.

Fly Stitch Flower Border / Simple Embroidery Border

 Hi all

Hope all are doing good and staying safe.  Today I am happy to share with you a simple embroidery border.  I wanted to do a easy but a grand neckline embroidery for a silk saree blouse.  So I have tried this small sample using the basic stitches.  The outcome is perfect and it is beyond my expectation.  Happy to post it here in blog. Let's see the design now.

Video Tutorial Here

The fabric I have worked is silk cotton.  When I search google I found that the colour of the fabric is "Old gold".  Then I searched for colour combos with old gold colour and then selected a light shade of gold colour and the contrasting blue.  I was in a doubt whether this blue goes well with the fabric because I am very poor in selecting colour choices.  And to my surprise the blue combo worked very well.  So I thought I will add this colour combo in my colour palatte. 

The design with only embroidery.  It is very plain and simple and then I added the dull gold colour cut glass beads randomly.  It lifted the grandness of the embroidery.  

After adding the cut beads also, I felt something is lacking and then filled the gaps with golden beads.  And the whole outlook of the piece changed.  

The design is complete now.  

You can use this design for border or for the neckline also.  

Pattern for the design

Anchor Threads used :

Light gold - 313 

Blue - 121 

Stitches used

Lines - Laced Running Stitch (3 strands)

Zig Zag line - Zig Zag chain stitch (3 Strands)

Fly stitch flower - 4 strands

Used a sequin in the centre of the flowers.

 

Hope all of you like this design.  Will meet you with another interesting post soon.  Till then, have a nice day.