How-To Stitch A Satin Stitch

Learn how-to stitch a satin stitch with MischievousRaven and then use the stitch to make a Dunkin Doughnut dog toy.

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  Step 1

  Gather all your materials.

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  Step 2

  Put your material between the 2 hoops and tighten. To start with (for practise), draw a box with the pencil on your tightened material.

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  Step 3

  Thread your embroidery thread through the needle so its doubled up and tie a knot at the end. Now some people don't double it and tie the ends, but if your anything like me you find it starts to unravel.

  To start stitching, I start at the top corner on your pencil line.

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  Step 4

  Then sew on the bottom corner on the line. Come back to the top and insert your needle as close to where u first started and then sew down to as close as you can to the bottom of the stitch.

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  Step 5

  Keep going until your getting close to finishing your thread. Should look something like this.

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  Step 6

  When you have come to the end of your thread, turn over to the back and tie a knot. repeat previous steps till you reach the end of your penciled line.

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  Step 7

  Tie off on the back and voila, you have satin stitched

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  Step 8

  If your feeling a bit adventurous and want to do something other than a box, draw your design and do a running stitch on the penciled line.

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  Step 9

  And satin stitch it.

Got the hang of this technique?

Put your new skill to the test with this tutorial: