Hardanger Filling Stitches – chain stitch flower

Not all Hardanger filling stitches are about the spaces. Sometimes they’re about the intersections between the spaces. This is a chain stitch flower which is stitched on an intersection.

The bars around it are wrapped, but they could just as easily be woven. If the bars are woven, the flower will be less pronounced because woven bars are a little wider than wrapped ones. (And note, I said a *little* wider. They should not be wide!)

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.