Chicken Scratch Embroidery

Discover the art of chicken scratch embroidery and create stunning designs with our top ideas. Elevate your embroidery skills and add a unique touch to your projects.
Needlework Embroidery, Silk Ribbon Embroidery, Hand Embroidery Stitches, Embroidery And Stitching, Embroidery Applique, Embroidery Patterns, Gingham Embroidery Pattern, Embroidery Library, Cross Stitches

This lesson will demonstrate how to do the embroidery using the different stitches over a border design. It is advised to go through the thread-fabric-and-stitch section of the chicken scratch page before beginning this lesson. It will help you...

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Janet Bolger
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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.

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Jude Hagerty
Gingham Embroidery Pattern, Embroidery Patterns Free, Cross Stitch Embroidery, Hand Embroidery, Embroidery Aprons, Chicken Scratch Patterns, Chicken Scratch Embroidery, Needlework Patterns, Gingham Fabric

I was recently reading Alicia Paulson's beautiful book 'Embroidery Companion' and came across the section on Chicken Scratch embroidery. I have never seen it before but was intrigued by the effect. The stitching is quite simple (double cross stitch and woven circle stitch) and uses the checks of the gingham fabric as a guide. Have a look at these other examples of Chicken Scratch Embroidery on Flickr - you can see how changing the thread colour gives a completely different look. Anyway... I…

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Debbie Atchison
Fat-Quarter: Chicken scratch 1 Gingham Embroidery, Swedish Embroidery, Embroidery Patterns Vintage, Gingham Fabric, Embroidery Tutorials, Embroidery Techniques, Ribbon Embroidery, Embroidery Projects, Cross Stitch Embroidery

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…

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Kathy Collao

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