Chicken Scratch Embroidery

Chicken scratch embroidery is a unique and charming needlework technique that has been around for centuries. This form of embroidery is believed to have originated in America during the early days …

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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Instructions for doing Chicken Scratch Embroidery on gingham fabric

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.

Learn the basics of chicken scratch embroidery with out step-by-step directions including the five most popular stitches.

Last Friday afternoon the red gingham fabric I ordered for my chicken scratch embroidery project came in the mail from fabric.com. When I was ordering it, I wasn’t sure whether to get fabric …

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…

Following up on last weekend's gingham lace (or chicken scratch) embroidery pattern that I posted for you, I've been having an ongoing discussion on the email sidelines about the pattern and the recent examples of gingham embroidery that I've been sharing here and on my Needle 'n Thread Facebook pag

Now that you’ve finished up the cover for Cotton Quartet, it’s time to embellish the gingham lining and prepare both the cover and the lining for construction. Today, we’re just going to look at the gingham embroidery inside the tool wallet, and then we’ll talk about prepping the two pieces for construction. If you’re just ...