Hardanger Filling Stitches – wrapped bars

Today’s stitch from Hardanger Filling Stitches is Wrapped bars. For much of my Hardanger career, I have avoided wrapped bars. This is because so often they look wonky and dreadful. I dislike the way they can distort the fabric and don’t sit “just so”. Other people might be ok with that, but it doesn’t make me happy.

However, they really needed to go in my book, so I had to figure out how to get great results, so that I would be happy using them and happy teaching them to others. With experimentation and repeated practice, I can now get my wrapped bars sitting pleasingly, and my instructions will also show you how.

They’ll never be my favourite stitch, but sometimes they’re really useful, and now I feel much happier about using them!

Do you like wrapped bars? Or does their often wonkiness bother you too?

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.