Now if you can do satin stitch, the bedspread can be started.
Now leave 3 holes below, and in the 4th bring your needle up from underneath for a satin stitch.
This is worked in satin stitch—a very simple stitch, but it needs to be worked evenly, and the thread must not be pulled too tightly.
When you have made 8 little blocks in this way, turn again, and make 4 blocks of satin stitch as you did on the first side, the last stitch of the 4th block should take you back into the hole we called your starting point.
Gold and silver braid enter largely into various sorts of decorated needlework, and the Victoria braid, of cotton, which has something of the appearance of satin stitch, is generally known.
Satin stitch is a smooth raised work, used for leaves, flowers, &c.
In this style, the pattern is either in satin stitch, or from left to right, formed of holes cut out of the muslin, and sewed over with embroidery cotton.
The next stitch in importance is the "Satin Stitch," and it has various applications.
The flower forms may be made altogether or nearly solid or filled with feather stitch or satin stitch diapered.
The effect of this is that of a satin stitch on the top and bottom of the bar with a braided line through the center.
Examples of it come to us from Germany and Spain, in which the design is embroidered in satin stitch, or entirely filled in with solid chain stitch, in a uniform gold colour.
It is in this way that every pattern to be worked in button-hole or satin stitch is to be prepared.
In a leaf like the one seen in 90 work first the outline and veining in overcast stitch; work one half of the leaf in satin stitch, and the other half between the overcast outline and veining in back stitch.
The centre consists of a mass of French knots, and the outside line is in satin stitch.
The name describes the method of working, for it is carried out by working alternately a long and a short stitch, the stitches being picked up just as in satin stitch.
The sprays are in satin stitch, which is one of the best for small sprays to be worked solid.
The contour was in stem stitch, the serrated edges turned over on to the brown surface were in shading stitch, the red veinings in satin stitch.
IV Flowers in soft blues in satin stitch, acorns have their cups worked in French knots.
Satin Stitch, for all kinds of flowers and small foliage, or for the definite flat shading, that is like block shading without the ridge caused by the carrying back of the wool into the past row of stitches.
The term split-stitch describes no new stitch, but a particular treatment to which a crewel or a satin stitch is submitted.
A yet more pictorial effect is produced in much the same way, this time in satin stitch, in Illustration 76.
One may finish off darning, for example, at the edges with a satin stitch.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "satin stitch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
