Chicken Scratch Embroidery

I’m dreaming of loops around chicken scratch. In my dreams, they all look perfect. When I wake up some work and some don’t. I keep right on going and trying a few more. As you may notic…

Learn Chicken Scratch Embroidery: Awesome tutorials from Sarah’s Hand Embroidery.

Muddlepud has created some chicken scratch designs, and she’s giving them away! She says, “I’ve decided to encourage others in Blogland to craft so that I might live vicariously t…

Years ago I bought some Gingham fabric with hearts. I'm not sure what I wanted to make, but now was the time to use it for the first challenge of Stitch Explorer. I started on a 12 inch square with 2 threads of white DMC. I used this tutorial. Then I did the same with red DMC. I tried some cross stitches and made a woven square without the running stitches. The next one I tried was double cross stitch. I laced them diagonal. The second diagonal was woven into the first one. On the left I…

Just a little house keeping here, so that you can easily find information on chicken scratch / embroidery on gingham here on Needle 'n Thread when you're looking for it! This index will include all articles on Chicken Scratch, including patterns, tutorials, and other information on the technique.

For those of you that fear a needle...this one might make you overcome that fear. I never saw it before but it is perfectly clear now...it is sewing on graph paper! Five cents a copy. Prepared by the Educational Bureau of Coats and Clark. I'm having such trouble trying to figure out which one I need to do first, second, third.... The last half of the pamphlet will come tomorrow. Well, go get your needles! Download the pamphlet pages here.

"Chickenscratch" embroidery - quick and easy embroidery, cute design! White almost looks like a doily ****************************************** Rocksea - #embroidery #heart #chicken #scratch #chickenscratch #crafts #needle - tå√

Following up on last weekend's gingham lace (or chicken scratch) embroidery pattern that I posted for you, I've been having an ongoing discussion on the email sidelines about the pattern and the recent examples of gingham embroidery that I've been sharing here and on my Needle 'n Thread Facebook pag

Types of Hand Embroidery on Needle ‘n Thread Chicken scratch: Chicken scratch, worked on gingham, is generally considered a more “rustic” embroidery technique. The squares of the gingham provide the grid upon which chicken scratch is worked, with the stitches producing a lacy pattern on the gingham. Chicken scratch is a simple technique; it employs ...