This embroidery chapter extends skills in simple line stitches - back stitch, stem stitch and the embellishment of running stitch with whipping and lacing. Golden Hands suggests building up these stitches on a border, such as on a cuff:
Golden Hands loves to adorn clothing, but I decided to stick to my small mats:
The stitches I used were long and short running stitch, whipped running stitch, laced running stitch and interlacing between two lines of running stitch.
I remember having to learn these very stitches when I was In Year 5 and embroidering the bottom of a gathered skirt. I did the embroidery without too much trouble, but when my mother was helping me to take up the hem, in a rush, as it had to be finished for the school Open day the next day. We had a big fight about the length and she left me to do it on my own, and I did a very wobbly job of it, so I was very worried that it would look out of place among the much more expertly sewn skirts of my classmates. It didn't look too bad though, in a display with about 30 other similar skirts. And, on reflection, my dressmaking skills haven't improved much!
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