Buttonhole stitch
How the Buttonhole stitch is worked, what it is used for, and the stitches that go with it.
- Family
- edging
- Difficulty
- easy
- Thread use (x)Line, knot, detached, couching, edging and composite stitches: cm of thread per cm of stitched line. Filling stitches: cm of thread per square cm of solid cover with all six strands (halve the strands and the figure doubles). Working figures used by the thread length estimator; they include the thread on the back but not starts and ends.
- 6.5 x
- Used for
- Cutwork and eyelet edges that will be cut, scalloped edges, detached buttonhole filling, buttonholes.
- How it works
- Blanket stitch worked with the stitches side by side so the bar along the edge becomes a firm knotted ridge. Worked around a shape before the fabric inside is cut away in cutwork and broderie anglaise.
- Related stitchesStitches built from this one, or worked the same way
- Blanket stitch
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