Design of the week – Running stitch designs
Running stitch is the easiest and basic stitch in embroidery. Though it is basic, many beautiful designs can be embroidered with simple running stitch. In the famous kanta embroidery, running stitch is majorly used.
Kanta embroidery
Karnataka’s famous blanket Koudi, also involves running stitch.
Koudi(Image courtesy – Google)
In designing running stitch has many application. Simple lines can be drawn on the border and this can be decorated with running stitch with different contrast color threads.
Running stitch for border
Any design which has outlines can be used as running stitch designs. Here I am sharing rose design embroidered using running stitch:
Outline of the design using running stitch
Only outline is embroidered using running stitch. Still the design looks very nice. Another one is :
One more running stitch design
Moth these running stitch designs can be used as motifs for saree, dress etc.
In my you tube channel I have shared a video on running stitch tutorial and how to use running stitch designs. I will be sharing many designs. So keep an eye on my blog. 🙂
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