Ringed crossed dove’s eye is a dove’s eye variation. It combines twisted diagonal spokes, a dove’s eye and an extra ring. Put together, they make a very pretty stitch. This stitch is best worked in a medium sized hole. Too small a hole, and it becomes cramped and loses definition. Too large a hole and it just doesn’t seem to fill the space properly.
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.
This is a charming stitch!
It has been so much fun finding stitches that were new to me and finding some real gems amongst them.