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Woven bars are used in Hardanger embroidery and (other) forms of drawn thread work. Warp/weft threads are removed, and the remaining weft/warp threads are combined into bars by weaving a thread over and under the bundles of remaining threads.

See overcast bar.

See overcast bar.

See fly stitch.

The zigzag coral stitch is made very much in the ame way as the coral stitch, but each stitch is worked diagonally across two parallel (guide) lines, creating a zigzag pattern with a knot at each end.

See the cloud filling stitch.

See crested chain stitch.

Curved blocks refer to the rounded designs often used in patchwork and quilting. Examples of curved block designs tend to have imaginative names, such as the Double Wedding Ring; Drunkard's Path; Grandmother's Fan, or Robbing Peter to Pay Paul.

The crossed corners cushion stitch consists of a square being formed by diagonal straight stitches, as a cushion stitch, followed by half of the square being overstitched by straight stitches being worked in the opposite direction.

The crossed buttonhole stitch is a variation on the 'normal' buttonhole stitch, whereby the vertical stitches are worked in an angle and cross each other in pairs.