Raised chevron stitch

The raised chevron stitch. The raised chevron stitch.

The raised chevron stitch is a composite stitch, created by first making a line of diagonal stitches in V-shapes. Subsequently a line of chevron stitches is threaded across the line of diagonal stitches, without entering the ground material, apart from the end and beginning of the line.

Sources:

  • CLAYTON, Mary (2007). The Needlecrafter's Companion. 1001 Stitch Terms and Techniques, London: Collins and Brown, p. 127.
  • EATON, Jan (1986). The Complete Stitch Encyclopedia, Twickenham: Hamlyn Publishing, pp. 45, 47.

Digital source of illustration (retrieved 24 January 2017).

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