Edelweiss is one of *those* stitches – it looks amazing, but it’s difficult to get it looking amazing. This one is all about tension. See how those ribs radiating from the centre curve? That’s what you’re trying to achieve: lovely curves which make the stitch sing. Without those curves, the stitch looks stilted. With them, it’s dynamic!
For this motif, I stitched it again and again and again. I tried all sorts of different things. I’ve honed my instructions to hopefully help you achieve great results by pulling threads in the right directions at the right times. If you’re learning it, don’t expect great results the first time. It does take practice. Just try to learn from each one and with practice, you’ll get there!
We’re part way through a series exploring the stitches that are featured in my forthcoming book, Hardanger Filling Stitches. If this is the first post you’ve seen in the series, have a look for the others.
Hardanger Filling Stitches by Yvette Stanton, will be arriving in Australia in December 2023, New Zealand shortly after that, UK in February 2024, and the US in March. You can order it from your favourite needlework store, worldwide. If they don’t know where to get it from, you can ask them to contact me, and I will direct them accordingly.
Vetty Creations have supplies packs for the Hardanger Filling Stitch sampler featured in the book.
White Threads is the blog of Yvette Stanton, the author, designer, publisher behind Vetty Creations' quality needlework books and embroidery products.
Holy MOLEY, that is an amazing stitch! I’m going to have to work my way up to that one! But totally worth it.
It required a LOT of practice for me! 🙂
What an enchanting stitch!